Important Information on Your DIRECTV DSL Service

[Wesley Miaw]

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Hi Stan,

> after many happy years of bellsouth dsl service i switched to telocity
> (directvdsl) so that i could get a fixed ip address.
> does anyone know of another dsl carrier that provides a fixed ip
> address?

I looked at two places when I moved to NC. The first was BritSys 
(http://www.britsys.com/) because they have an excellent rep on 
http://www.dslreports.com/. The second was DSL Express 
(http://www.dslx.net/). DSL Express has given me excellent customer 
service.

In the end, I had to go with DSL Express because BritSys claimed I was 
too far from the BellSouth CO and wouldn't go through the setup, even 
though I'm not too far. Unfortunately that means my first hop is in 
Florida instead of here in NC, so my latency is always going to be 
around 70ms (30ms to Florida, 40ms through their uplink). I get 
~150KBps max.

Some other things I always ask (and which I'm sure are things you are 
concerned about), to which both places answered correctly, are:

1) Do you care if I use IP masquerading or how many machines I have 
behind my static IP?
2) Do you care if I run any servers?
3) Do you care what operating systems I use?
4) Are there any monthly bandwidth limits?
5) Who are and how many uplinks do you have?

Hope this helps,
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Wesley Miaw, Wesley Miaw Consulting
http://www.wesman.net/
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