Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?

[André Bell <debian2@one-click.com>]

Thanks Tom for the help.

My phone company charges a $99 install fee and requires one to three year
contracts to install dsl, modem included.  The one thing they won't
disclose in their literature or their web page is the monthly price :(

Now I'll have to call them (listen to the hard sale) and find out if they
have $4,000 per month in mind -- no thanks -- or something less.  $4,000
per month just for a hook up, plus ISP fees, is way too expensive for what
I have in mind.

Thanks too for letting me know the ip address changes every 12 hours, that
could be a real bugger.

Andre'

>If you can get DSL and afford it do it!  You should have no problem
>running a server off of it.  I work for an internet company that offers
>DSL for corporate use (Bell Atlantic has not really made that technology
>availibale in upstatd NY yet).  All of our DSL customers are running
>servers off of the connection.  The one DSL install that I did was
>configured line from the DSL jack -> DSL Modem -> crossover cable -> Win
>NT server -> router -> work stations You can though go DSL jack -> modem
>-> router -> network of comptuers.  I've heard that sometimes the phone
>company changes your IP address every 12hrs though which sort of makes it
>hard to run a server.  You could always try to get a static IP but which
>I'm sure IF they offer will cost you a pretty penny :) Your best bet would
>be to go through a local ISP to get the service.  They maybe able to get
>it to you cheaper and they have deal with all of the BS from the phone
>company and not you.  Right now in the upstate NY area the price of DSL
>for a 8m line is $4999.00/ month (most of which is just the phone company
>charge for the line each month). 
>
>In my experience it is more reliable than ISDN or Frame Realy.  It is more
>secure than Cable.  Most of all, it is FAST!
>
>Just my $.02