Re: [Sheflug] Public access services

[nigel wood <nospam [at] myopenapps.com>]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, PaulSims062527 [at] aol.com wrote:
> 
> BT stands to lose a lot of revenue from leased-lines which is why they force 
> frequent address changes to prevent the establishment of DIY web servers. 
> Presumably the 3rd-party telcos will at some point use some of BT's ADSL 
> services even if just as resellers, so their restrictions will apply 
> downstream.  

Of course most of the ADSL resellers offer static IP's (e.g. Firstnet,
Plusnet, A & A) although not usually on USB installations which have much lower
margins. USB static IP's are supported by some resellers by special request
though I've yet to see Linuxes Alcatel ADSL drivers working properly.  


Nigel
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