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I believe the local cable company has a business option with a static IP as well, but was pretty ridiculously priced for our needs.

I am comitted to getting this issue resolved with the current DSL provider, however we are looking at some alternative options to make sure that long term outages like this don't occur in the future. I am sorry for the inconveinence. Hopefully it won't happen again but I am doing what I can to learn from it.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, as I said, I didn't know what a commercial cable account might cost...I was guessing (hoping) that it might only cost $10 or $15 more per month (our consumer connection costs $34.95 per month).

Guess we'll keep out fingers crossed.

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Typically business accounts are on the order of 3 to 4 times more expensive then consumer accounts. Which sucks pretty much cause you aren't getting all that much more with them.

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What about just using a router to hold your IP?
The only thing that would change your IP with a router would be a power failure or tomfoolery by the ISP.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True, but that's a major inoconveinence for a website. The main reason though I wont do that is most ISP's have specific rules against persistant web sites running on a dynamic IP. I am sure you can give me many examples of people doing it and getting away with it but I think it's better having it running legit to worrying all the time if the ISP is gonna catch me running a game server and shut me down.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Here it is per month; $40 for home service. $100 for business, but no outbound http or ftp allowed, $200 for server use with semi static IP.

I just use a parked domain now and forward it to my IP address. If it changes, there is a lag while DNS populates, but usually less than a day.

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Well, for what it's worth..

I'm using Time Warner Cable's Roadrunner. I have a DLINK Firewall/Router with NAT, so I can run more than 2 machines on my cable provided internet service. I'm also running a website, off a PC in my room. My particular provider has not forced an IP change down to my router, since I hooked it up. It has stayed constant with several router reboots, and 1 overnight outage of electricity.

Roadrunner, locally, does NOT use static IP's. I don't know why the IP hasn't changed, but my website has been up and running continueously (sp?) for about 5 months.

What does it matter if the ISP catches you? They might upsell you on a static IP. Are you saying that they won't LET an individual run a website, unless they pay for a business account? That seems unreasonable, Geo.

--Ed

[ August 14, 2003, 22:50: Message edited by: 1FSTCAT ]

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Is it back up yet, Is it back up yet, Is it back up yet, Is it back up yet, Is it back up yet, Is it back up yet, Is it back up yet, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Unreasonable or not that is their policy. It's not my policy. And I am talking specifically about Roadrunner here. Read your contract. I am not going to get into a discussion of whether it's ok to do or not. I am simply not going to do it.

The cable modem idea has been brought up several times now. I have researched it and it's just not a good option for PBW. I'm just gonna leave it at that rather than continuing to respond to every point brought up.

Geoschmo

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OK, guys. Settle down a bit. And remember all the lessons we learned when chatting our lives away (instead ov SE4'ing them away) about people claiming to be female. You should know by now that "female" and "SE4" are mutually exclusive terms... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif