I am a current DSL subscriber through QWest, and even if they sell out their stuff, it doesn't really matter to me, as I have all my own internal stuff......SMTP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, Firewall, blah, blah.... and a bank of static IP's to go with it......A little natting here and there.....it's all good.
If they decide to start getting out of the copper lines too, then i'll have to revisit it.
Right now it's not an issue, because I use all my own internal equipment.
The service (as far as uptime) has been pretty decent. I would like to use regular routing equipment to standardize things, and make things easier for me..... 98 percent of the email that I get through the QWest mailbox is spam anyway.... I just delete it, and move on....
"It's really easy to screw up, but to do it right, you need root...."
The wife and I had a new house built a couple of
years ago, and I knew at the time that I wanted to have the place running a high speed network.
I had the home builder run cat5 throughout the house that all terminates in the basement at a central location. The home builder had no clue about what I wanted to do, and couldn't let me do it myseld (supposedly because of regulations, but let me buy the boxes of cable, and I spec'd the whole thing out, making sure that the cat5 would not run parallel to any electrical cables.
It's all 100BT switched networking equipment, (Cisco and Sun) and it really does well.
I have the ability to snake full fiber as well at a later date if needed.
I currently host a few web sites for friends through a local DSL (640K) connection, and have an older machine that hosts about 100GB of MP3's that are accessible throught the house. The kids all have network drops in their bedrooms, and we have the other drops in the family room, the master bedroom, the living room, and I do have one in the kitchen (away from any cooking devices) that is ready, but we don't use at the moment. I really like the way it works....It's simple, easy to maintain, and very reliable.
I am in the process of hooking the main stereo and HDTV, DVD, Satellite receiver, blah, blah.... into the network as well, so I can stream all of the MP3's through the XMMS machine running on a little laptop in the family room.
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I am a current DSL subscriber through QWest, and even if they sell out their stuff, it doesn't really matter to me, as I have all my own internal stuff......SMTP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, Firewall, blah, blah.... and a bank of static IP's to go with it......A little natting here and there.....it's all good. If they decide to start getting out of the copper lines too, then i'll have to revisit it. Right now it's not an issue, because I use all my own internal equipment. The service (as far as uptime) has been pretty decent. I would like to use regular routing equipment to standardize things, and make things easier for me..... 98 percent of the email that I get through the QWest mailbox is spam anyway.... I just delete it, and move on.... "It's really easy to screw up, but to do it right, you need root...."
The wife and I had a new house built a couple of years ago, and I knew at the time that I wanted to have the place running a high speed network. I had the home builder run cat5 throughout the house that all terminates in the basement at a central location. The home builder had no clue about what I wanted to do, and couldn't let me do it myseld (supposedly because of regulations, but let me buy the boxes of cable, and I spec'd the whole thing out, making sure that the cat5 would not run parallel to any electrical cables. It's all 100BT switched networking equipment, (Cisco and Sun) and it really does well. I have the ability to snake full fiber as well at a later date if needed. I currently host a few web sites for friends through a local DSL (640K) connection, and have an older machine that hosts about 100GB of MP3's that are accessible throught the house. The kids all have network drops in their bedrooms, and we have the other drops in the family room, the master bedroom, the living room, and I do have one in the kitchen (away from any cooking devices) that is ready, but we don't use at the moment. I really like the way it works....It's simple, easy to maintain, and very reliable. I am in the process of hooking the main stereo and HDTV, DVD, Satellite receiver, blah, blah.... into the network as well, so I can stream all of the MP3's through the XMMS machine running on a little laptop in the family room.