Comcast setup & cable modem fees - decision

[peterman at eecs.tufts.edu (Charles Peterman)]

On the subject of cable modems and fees, Verizon is rolling out its
consumer fiber service in a few towns (Watertown, Belmont, Woburn,
and Reading, IIRC).  5Mb up/2Mb down for $35 a month, which is about $20
less than Comcast.

Anyone here using the Verizon fiber?

Thanks

-Charles

PS.  In the course of finding out about this Verizon deal while at the
laundromat, I was informed that Cambridge owns the telephone poles in
Belmont.  Can anyone confirm that, or know the circumstances that lead to
it?


On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Rich Braun wrote:

> > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 20:45 -0500, Gordon Marx wrote:
> >> dyndns.org. The only time I've ever had a problem is when I have to
> >> reset the router and end up with a new IP address and forget to update
> >> it with them.
>
> Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com>
> > If you ran the updater client on a system behind the router
> > (http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/) this wouldn't happen.
>
> Ditto on all the above.  Having run my own ISP and then worked for another
> later on, I got somewhat spoiled about having "static" IP addresses in the
> early years.
>
> But nowadays I consider it a simple waste of money to buy my own personal
> static IP address.  If I had a "real" website that I was counting on to earn
> money, I'd host it somewhere.  But given that my only purpose in serving up
> html is to (a) maintain an aging list of New England ISPs, and to (b) share
> files with friends, it doesn't matter to me whether Comcast "shuts me off".
> I'll just move the "server" to some high-numbered port and change it once in a
> while if necessary, because it only needs to work for a few days after I sent
> out an email with a link to it.
>
> Comcast and Verizon don't really care whether you're running a "server".  They
> just care whether you're running a commercial enterprise on a consumer-priced
> service.  What I've found is that Comcast *never* changes my IP address unless
> it's doing a major network renumbering, which happens only once every few
> months to every few years.   Any they never take my service down except when a
> squirrel eats through the cable.  ;-)
>
> Dyndns, Easydns, Mailhop, ddclient--those are the kind of services that work
> quite well with a dynamic IP.
>
> -rich
>
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