Verizon (FiOS) (Off Topic?) I have it!

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Jan 24th 2006 at 07:12 -0500, quoth Fred:

=>On Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:33, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
=>...
=>> So if you want to download music, etc. you can get the lower-cost DSL
=>> service.
=>>
=>> But if you want to run a business and have a web server...you pay.
=>>
=>> Just a guess, but an educated one.
=>>
=>> md
=>
=>Just got set up with Fios, and I did call and grill them on the very point of 
=>the prohibition of running any server.
=>

The idea that Verizon would allow you to run a low-volume server is highly 
intruiging to me. I am running with RCN and I really can't complain in the 
slightest. I get 11Mb/s plus they don't block me from anything. The catch 
is that the won't block outgoing port 25 and incoming port 80 unless you  
pay them an extra $20/month for "static address" service. Their static 
address is still allocated via DHCP but it gets tied to your MACADDR. But 
the address they give you is still from a DHCP pool so a number of larger 
providers require that you create a mailertable entry to route it through 
RCN's server.

But it is intruiging.

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