[Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

[Gabriel Merritt]

I have several students who have used Comcast as their ISP and hosted a server while using some sort of dynamic DNS service such as dyndns.com (there are others but I've heard they are the good) with little or no difficulty.  Comcast is well known for throttling their bandwidth, most notably during "peek" usage hours, which for your average Eugene/Springfield suburban neighborhood appears to be from 5:00 pm to about 9 or 10:00 pm (approximately when people are getting home from work / school and going on line and then going to bed).  Comcast actually collects data about peek usage hours for their individual network segments and throttles bandwidth appropriately.  I got this off a student with friends who work for Comcast and it more or less appears to hold up for my neighborhood.

If you start looking at some of the more obscure ISP providers, don't go with Hughesnet.  They suck.

- Gabriel

Jason Dommasch <jdommaroma at gmail.com> wrote: I was kind of hoping to learn about classic DNS, because that's what
most of the internet uses (I assume).  I don't know enough about
DYNDNS to know how different it is.

- Jason Dommasch 

On 8/10/07, Mr O  wrote:
> Good thing you can't get Clearwire. Most newer DSL modems by
> default act as a router so you'd have to turn off their
> 'firewall' and get a good router or roll your own firewall.
> Comcast is of course the fastest (in Eugene) but comes with the
> higher price tag. I really wouldn't run port 80 if you don't
> have to. You could always port forward off nearly any router and
> use a different port to forward to 80. For example, I run double
> 80 for my router and go up two on the default for Slimserver.
> Also, DYNDNS is your friend then you don't have to pay an extra
> leg for a static IP. You'll only be down an arm if you get
> cable.
>
> Just a quick example, http://eviltechmonkey.homelinux.org:8080
>
> Don't try and hack my router please :-)
>
> That be all,
> Mr O.
>
> --- Jason Dommasch  wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I know this topic has come up before, but I'm looking into
> > getting
> > broadband internet.  Qwest DSL is not available in my area,
> > and
> > according to their website Clearwire blocks port 80 (web).
> >
> > So I'm looking for some sort of broadband that offers static
> > IP
> > addresses.  I want to start experimenting with running a
> > public facing
> > server.
> >
> > I don't need very fast internet, just connectivity and a
> > static IP.
> >
> > - Jason Dommasch 
>
>
>
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