Re: I Now Have DSL

[Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>]

It depends on your DSL supplier, as some (especially in the UK)
specifically prohibit inbound services unless you pay extra.

Saying that, Draytek make a nice set of firewall routers that also
supports dynamic dns servers over DSL & ISDN, so you can hook up your
entire network very easily.

I'm using their Vigor 2600W which supports both ADSL & ISDN as well as
10/100Mb + 11Mb wireless (I'm using ISDN as I'm way over the distance
limit for DSL), but enables me to use any machine here to connect.

Peter

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On Sun, 25 May 2003, Chris Albertson wrote:

>
> Tom,
>
> You don't need a static IP address.  All you need is a host name
> that stays constant.  Something like "Toms-house.org".
> The mapping from the name to the IP address can follow whatever
> your current IP address happens to be.  Well OK you can't get
> "Toms-house" But it doesn't matter. If you have _any_ name then
> you can host an FTP site, Web site and a TASS database if you
> want.
>
> Check this out.  It's another thing that "just works" and
> it's free too.  There are other "dydnamic DNS servers" but these
> guys look seem to be the biggst one and may be around for a
> while.
>            http://www.no-ip.com/
>
>
>
> --- Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I now have DSL.  As someone who did their first computer interface in
> > 1957
> > I am always amazed at how well the automatic interconnection stuff
> > works.  Once I got the DSL system going, I went to read my e-mail.
> > Of
> > course the e-mail browser was still set to use a dial up connection.
> > Not
> > seeing any place to select ethernet, I just deselected the use dial
> > up box,
> > and it worked!!   Boggle.  This from someone who spent two years and
> > several lawyer years trying to connect something to an IBM-650 in
> > 1959.  We
> > had a 109 pin connector and we just had to guess what the pins did.
> > IBM
> > would not tell us, even though we had a Government Secret Level
> > Project.  Sigh!  You young whipper snappers don't know how good you
> > have it.
> >
> > I am not (yet) paying the $15 a month extra to get a fixed IP
> > address.  If
> > there is a need, I can do it.  It is ADSL so not much good for
> > sending big
> > images.
> >
> > Tom Droege
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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