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.
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Bill Warner <
wwarner42@cox.net>
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