Poll: cable internet or T1? (read the post first!)

[dakata24]

First of all, on a regular customer account, the IP changes every four days. Either you're not paying close enough attention to what your IP is and when it changes you don't notice, or there's a problem with your DHCP server. It should change, plain and simple. As for "just how static" I want my IP, if I were paying for a static IP, I would expect it not to change unless I specifically request it or there be some sort of major service problem that requires it.

i guess it depends on the region, i'm using ATTBI and my ip address hasnt changed yet.. i keep a pretty good eye on my ip address (do online security scans from dslreports and various websites that require you to enter your public ip, and whenever i check, it's the same as before)..

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos Get the cable. 1. You can be a bandwith monkey and no one will complain. 2. You won't have to put up with other bandwith monkeys on the T1. 3. You won't have to have faith in someone elses tech suport, you can provide your own. 4. With the T1 you may have a lot more upstream bandwith but what can you do with it thats not going bother the people sharing it. 5 Just how static do you need your IP to be? My IP through ATTBI hasn't changed since I got it and i'm willing to bet it never will as long as never have to get the nic reprovisioned.

First of all, on a regular customer account, the IP changes every four days. Either you're not paying close enough attention to what your IP is and when it changes you don't notice, or there's a problem with your DHCP server. It should change, plain and simple. As for "just how static" I want my IP, if I were paying for a static IP, I would expect it not to change unless I specifically request it or there be some sort of major service problem that requires it. And, as far as "bandwidth monkeys," your connection speed will change on cable, too, smart guy. No matter what anyone tells you, there could be two people on your node and both be on at the same time and you see top-end speeds -meanwhile there could be 600 people on your node and at peak times you see speeds like 100kbps download. You're not guaranteed a minimum speed. Nobody guarantees a minimum speed. That would be stupid unless it's something like a dedicated T1 to your house only or something. 🙂

hehehe, AT&T made the mistake of guaranteeing "no slow downs due to over selling" (or something to that effect) in the ad I used to sign up. They ended up giving me over 6 months of cable free before they finally got it fixed 🙂 Of course, you remember some of that, don't you? 😀

lol - yes, I do. 🙂 Nice how you catch those and the execs go "D'OH, we're not taking advantage of our customers!! OMG!!!!! NO!!!!EEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!NNNOOOOOOOO!!!!OO!!!!!!OOOOO!!!OO!!"

nik

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: dakata24

First of all, on a regular customer account, the IP changes every four days. Either you're not paying close enough attention to what your IP is and when it changes you don't notice, or there's a problem with your DHCP server. It should change, plain and simple. As for "just how static" I want my IP, if I were paying for a static IP, I would expect it not to change unless I specifically request it or there be some sort of major service problem that requires it.

i guess it depends on the region, i'm using ATTBI and my ip address hasnt changed yet.. i keep a pretty good eye on my ip address (do online security scans from dslreports and various websites that require you to enter your public ip, and whenever i check, it's the same as before)..

Nope, doesn't vary by region, either. I work over all of them, including the recent migrations from MediaOne, etc.

nik

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Well then my DHCP server must have been screwed up for over a year now. I just checked, and while the lease does expire on the IP after four days, the server just gives it another four when it expires. This also happens when doing a release and renew.




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[dakata24]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
Well then my DHCP server must have been screwed up for over a year now. I just checked, and while the lease does expire on the IP after four days, the server just gives it another four when it expires. This also happens when doing a release and renew.

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same here... 😕

 

[OrganizedChaos]

And, as far as "bandwidth monkeys," your connection speed will change on cable, too, smart guy. No matter what anyone tells you, there could be two people on your node and both be on at the same time and you see top-end speeds -meanwhile there could be 600 people on your node and at peak times you see speeds like 100kbps download. You're not guaranteed a minimum speed. Nobody guarantees a minimum speed. That would be stupid unless it's something like a dedicated T1 to your house only or something

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my post but I'm not trying to imply that cable dosen't get bogged down. My point is that from the way I understand things cable modems have caps so one person can't suck up all the bandwith but if your sharing a T1 one user could slow down everyone easily as incorectly setting up a gnutella cliet or geting them selves infected with a trojan.