If I don't find a Girl Friend I'm going to switch to Cox too, ohh wait, never mind. I have been using Cox Internet for a long time. The setup is really easy and my IP address has only changed once. If you have a system that is going to be on line all the time than you can almost consider it a static IP address. I wouldn't run a production server off that but for most home based web sites it should be stable enough. The bad thing about Cox is that they block port 80 (Damn Cox blockers). I have run https servers on cox though as they don't block 139 or what ever https is. Otherwise I have been fairly happy with my Cox and use it daily. Bill Warner On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:50, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm thinking of switching from Sprint BroadBand to Cox for no real > reason other than to save a few bucks a month and increase download > speeds. This does bring up some questions however. > > What steps should a linux user like me take to make the hookup run > smoothly? I do know they use DHCP and we do have dhcpc available > here. > > Since they use dynamic IP's and I have a registered domain, what are > some good recommendations for dynamic DNS services, like DNS to Go and > such? > > What are people doing about the mail thing? I'm referring to the > blockage of port 25 and the forcing of users to use Cox's SMTP server > for all outgoing mail. > > All and all, is it worth it? The price ain't bad and Sprint is still > OK for me but I'm looking to reduce my monthly expense if possible > without giving up much:). > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Bill Warner