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Re: [Sheflug] ADSL with static IP



On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:33, Tom Knight-Markiegi wrote:

> > I use Zen Internet for my ADSL line, been very happy with the service. 
> > http://www.zenadsl.com/ I think it is.
> > 
> > I get 8 IPs as standard, you can get more if you pay, the various 
> > options are listed on their website.

Don't forget 2 of these won't be available (network+broadcast).
Zen reckon you get 5 IP's to play with, they count one of the remaining
for the router.

Out of my /29
80 network
84 laptop 
85 main pc
86 dedicated linux box as a router
87 broadcast

> I've looked into it and I'm going to go with either Plus.net or Zen, 8 IPs
> will always come in handy, so I'll probabaly go with Zen, but I've still got
> a few weeks of my contract with BT so I've got time to decide.
> 

I'm very happy with Zen, although Plus.net was a bit cheaper, I was more
convinced by the Dlink DSL300G+ ethernet adsl modem (though that's not
perfect[1])

<snip>
> As I'm only going to be doing some small scale stuff at the moment, I'll
> stick with hosting my own sites, but I'll look into colocating when (if) I
> get some more customers.

With more than a single IP if you have (a few) multiple sites, then
stick them on their own IP, it will then be easy to play around with
Ingress QoS- so that 1 site doesn't monopolise 100% of the bandwidth.
It's a bit more tricky if it's all named based virtual hosting.

[1]a) not perfect means Dlink deny all knowledge of SNMP working in the
router, even though it's advertised as such- and snmpwalk contradicts
them. I believe Dlink tech support is completely non-existant. 
   b) the dhcp lease is between 5 - 7 seconds long, though this isn't a
problem having static ip's.
-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam [at] dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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