I had a static ip address for my cox@home connection. Now when i want to ftp myself I need to remember to check my constantly changing ip address.
Way to go cox, excellent way to subtract value from your service! Can anyone tell me the point of this?
How does this comment rate a "flamebait"? I think the idea that @home overestimated demand and thus over invested is a valid observation. I personnaly know several sorry souls how dont have and dont see the need for broadband. Even a couple a heavy internet users. @home didnt do a very good job of selling their service. Although i admit selling broadband to someone who doesnt use the internet regularly is a tough sell.
Why cant the government just stop fighting the car and go with it? The automobile has been around for over a 100 years, its not going away. Its not as if there are no other methods of transport out there to compete with cars. In my home town of New Orleans, there is the bus,ferry and boat(a valid form of transport here),street car(trolly), bicycles, and amtrak. The state is even talking about building a mag-lev train to the northshore, mainly because the people in the northshore dont want the traffic and they figure no one will use the train. I and most everyone else in the city have tried them, yet we continue to return to the car even in rush hour traffic. Maybe the people have spoken and they feel the advantages are outweigh the disadvantages?
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I had a static ip address for my cox@home connection. Now when i want to ftp myself I need to remember to check my constantly changing ip address. Way to go cox, excellent way to subtract value from your service! Can anyone tell me the point of this?
How does this comment rate a "flamebait"? I think the idea that @home overestimated demand and thus over invested is a valid observation. I personnaly know several sorry souls how dont have and dont see the need for broadband. Even a couple a heavy internet users. @home didnt do a very good job of selling their service. Although i admit selling broadband to someone who doesnt use the internet regularly is a tough sell.
Why cant the government just stop fighting the car and go with it? The automobile has been around for over a 100 years, its not going away.
Its not as if there are no other methods of transport out there to compete with cars. In my home town of New Orleans, there is the bus,ferry and boat(a valid form of transport here),street car(trolly), bicycles, and amtrak. The state is even talking about building a mag-lev train to the northshore, mainly because the people in the northshore dont want the traffic and they figure no one will use the train.
I and most everyone else in the city have tried them, yet we continue to return to the car even in rush hour traffic. Maybe the people have spoken and they feel the advantages are outweigh the disadvantages?