I am getting a choice of braodband access in the sense that I am being offered DSL (Dishnet) and Cable access (Hathway). both are costing *almost* the same as far as monthly/yearly dues, though if I opt for a personal cable modem, I will have to pay a little more (~8000 bucks) for the modem.
I want to know if someone has used these services. Which one would be preferable. What should I look out for ? What are the queries I need to get answered from both these chaps ? I already asked if they are blocking port 80 as I will get a static IP and would like to host my site myself. The guy I spoke to did not know about the port 80 stuff so he will get back to me.
regards,
Sharukh.
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . wrote:
I want to know if someone has used these services. Which one would be preferable. What should I look out for ? What are the queries I need to get answered from both these chaps ? I already asked if they are blocking port 80 as I will get a static IP and would like to host my
what you should ask them is this:
1. are they giving IPs through DHCP. If they don't understand that, say Dynamic Host Protocol - somehow they seem to understand that.
Ask them what is the IP address you will get. You will recognise easily that 192.168.1.* means they are NATing you or proxying you. Ask them things like are you allowed to do MSN/Yahoo chat, voice chat, can you download music, etc.
I'm almost certain that all cable wallas provide a winproxy bases system, but don't know about DSL.
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:49:33 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote:
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . wrote:
what you should ask them is this:
- are they giving IPs through DHCP. If they don't understand that, say
Dynamic Host Protocol - somehow they seem to understand that.
Ask them what is the IP address you will get. You will recognise easily that 192.168.1.* means they are NATing you or proxying you. Ask them things like are you allowed to do MSN/Yahoo chat, voice chat, can you download music, etc.
I'm almost certain that all cable wallas provide a winproxy bases system, but don't know about DSL.
hathway is a static ip, has changed only once during network reorganisation.
- cnb
hi,
well hathway is better ... and dishnet DSL sucks big time :)
i use hathway at home and office
yes they offer you a realworld ip ... but sorry no hosting / smtp or dns on your box :-(
Well i get an average of 16K on this line ... mine is a so called 128K
Best Regards Prakash Shetty
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Tellis" philip.tellis@iname.com To: "Lug Bom" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] dsl or cable
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . wrote:
I want to know if someone has used these services. Which one would be preferable. What should I look out for ? What are the queries I need to get answered from both these chaps ? I already asked if they are blocking port 80 as I will get a static IP and would like to host my
what you should ask them is this:
- are they giving IPs through DHCP. If they don't understand that, say
Dynamic Host Protocol - somehow they seem to understand that.
Ask them what is the IP address you will get. You will recognise easily that 192.168.1.* means they are NATing you or proxying you. Ask them things like are you allowed to do MSN/Yahoo chat, voice chat, can you download music, etc.
I'm almost certain that all cable wallas provide a winproxy bases system, but don't know about DSL.
-- What hath Bob wrought?
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:23:26 +0530 "Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri ." spavri@vsnl.com wrote:
I am getting a choice of braodband access in the sense that I am being offered DSL (Dishnet) and Cable access (Hathway). both are costing *almost* the same as far as monthly/yearly dues, though if I opt for a personal cable modem, I will have to pay a little more (~8000 bucks) for the modem.
I use hathway, speed is great and stay's constant through the day/night. but they charge per mb downloaded so you end up paying huge download bills assuming you download that much.
hathway blocks port 80
- cnb
I want to know if someone has used these services. Which one would be preferable. What should I look out for ? What are the queries I need to get answered from both these chaps ? I already asked if they are blocking port 80 as I will get a static IP and would like to host my site myself. The guy I spoke to did not know about the port 80 stuff so he will get back to me.
regards,
Sharukh.
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