What did you do to get the extra static IP's... is this a Business Class FiOS
or the standard one...
It's business class... it has to be in order to get the static IP addresses at all (or at least that's what I was told).
As far as getting the extra ones, it was simply provisioned as part of my original installation order. Perhaps back then they didn't charge extra for a block of 5 addresses like they do now. The representative with whom I had spoken recently couldn't explain why I wasn't being charged for the extra addresses.
In any case, I'd like to upgrade to 25/15 Mbps as that's only $10/month more, but I'd also start incurring an extra $20/month charge for the 5 static IP addresses. Worse, if I do that, I was told that I'd lose my existing addresses and be assigned new addresses as part of this process. That's a lot more trouble than it's worth to me at this point.
--Marc
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Marc Chametzky <marc at bluevine.net> wrote:
Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is $150/month roughly.
I've got Verizon FiOS with 20 down/5 up + 5 static IPs for $100/month.
Apparently they aren't charging me for the extra static IPs, so I'm saving
about $20/month because of that.
It's definitely handy to have a few static IP addresses to use.
In any case, I'm definitely lovin' FiOS. :-)
--Marc
What did you do to get the extra static IP's... is this a Business Class FiOS
or the standard one...
Bill
--
d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com
Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is $150/month roughly.
I've got Verizon FiOS with 20 down/5 up + 5 static IPs for $100/month. Apparently they aren't charging me for the extra static IPs, so I'm saving about $20/month because of that.
It's definitely handy to have a few static IP addresses to use.
In any case, I'm definitely lovin' FiOS. :-)
--Marc
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Jason Stevens wrote:
Heh, I live in finance, and Verizon couldn't even run DSL.... They couldn't
even give me DIAL TONE.. And yeah I can see their tower of darkness from
here...
Don't even get me started on Verizon DSL. I'll get dialup before I ever get
Verizon DSL again.
But I've dealt with telcos world wide, and they all have one thing in
common.
they suck.
It's sad, but true.
TW seem to have bumped my upstream from 384k to 768k even though they claim
I am only entitled to 384k. It doesn't seem to be consistent though either
so who knows. :)
-brian
--
"Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta
tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of
pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)
Heh, I live in finance, and Verizon couldn't even run DSL.... They couldn't even give me DIAL TONE.. And yeah I can see their tower of darkness from here...
But I've dealt with telcos world wide, and they all have one thing in common.
they suck.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:28:17AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
> Here, in the northernmost NYC suburbs, FiOS is 50Mbps down, 20Mbps up.
> Available now.
And me brilliantly moving into non-Verizon territory. What was I thinking? :-D
-brian
--
"Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta
tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of
pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:28:17AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Here, in the northernmost NYC suburbs, FiOS is 50Mbps down, 20Mbps up.
Available now.
And me brilliantly moving into non-Verizon territory. What was I thinking? :-D
-brian
--
"Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta
tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of
pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435)
Jason Stevens wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable
people)
and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month...
Although I
think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
I'm game. Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is
$150/month roughly.
wow what a great deal!... what isp is that?
Verizon FiOS.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Jason Stevens wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people)
and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I
think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
I'm game. Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is $150/month roughly.
Peace... Sridhar
wow what a great deal!... what isp is that?
Hiya,
By "this week" and "next week" do you mean "next week" and "the week after"? Cos I thought you were coming next week now anyway!!
Well to be helpful ... next week (starting 9th) is fine Tuesday Wednesday & Friday. The week after (starting 16th) is OK Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. The week after that (starting 23rd) is out completely unless you turn up around 9am in the morning. Weekends I can't do until ... hmm about March, and evenings are complicated and need to be organised near to the time.
Can fit in with any of that ?
Chrissie
On 03/11/09 23:11, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Christine,
Terribly sorry about this, but turns out the guy I'm meant to drive down
from Leeds can't make it this week - how is next week looking for you?
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 15:37, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Oh god, my boiler is the same.
It used to crash every two or three weeks. And the plumber told me how
to refill it and reset it. In the end it turned out to be a very
slightly leaky radiator and it's been fine after that. I'm still
supposed to check the pressure now and then though.
/me goes off to do it while she remembers.
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 15:30, Sampsa Laine wrote:
OK, cool, we'll synchronise schedules with my friend, probably come up
on Wednesday or Friday (Wed ideally, I'm thinking the traffic into
London on Friday might be a lot of Epic Phail).
As for the boiler repair, it was free - only had it installed a few
months back (behind my spare freezer, which isn't so great). Turns out
it just needed a top-up - this involved the guy fiddling with two dials.
Now the stupid thing cost me thousands AND has a computer already built
in, how freaking hard can it be to make the topping-up thing automatic.
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 15:27, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Ahhh No problem.
That week is fine apart from Monday and Thursday.
I hope the boiler doesn't cost too much to fix :S
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 15:09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Oh crap, so it was - I ACTUALLY mean the week commencing the 9th -
sorry
about the confusion, been dealing with boiler repair guys all day.
Sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:27, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Hiya
That's the week I thought you meant anyway! So that's fine.
My address is
39 St James Terrace
Horsforth
Leeds
LS18 5QT
Phone 0113 2288310
Chrissie
On 27/10/09 14:01, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Actually, if you can hold on to them for another week - i.e. the
week
commencing 2 Nov, I'd be able to synchronise giving my friend a
lift to
London with the pick up. If this is a problem, no worries, I'll
come up
on next Thursday.
sampsa
On 27 Oct 2009, at 13:50, Christine Caulfield wrote:
On 27/10/09 12:41, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'll take the VAXstation and Alpha PWS if you can spare them and
the CD
drives - as for pick up, well I'm between jobs so it's no biggie,
could
come up next week if that works for you.
Yes, that's fine. I work from home so most days during the daytime
will be OK, apart from Wednesday morning. Just give me a day or
so's
notice when you'll be here and I'll be ready.
Chrissie
Jason Stevens wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people)
and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I
think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
I'm game. Here (Poughkeepsie) 20 down/20 up + static IP is $150/month roughly.
Peace... Sridhar
Bob Armstrong wrote:
FWIW, the baseline electricity rate here is only 11 cents/kWh, but there's
a tiered rate schedule and the extra power pushes me into the 200-300% of
baseline category. That has a marginal rate of 38 cents/kWh.
I'm in a bulk-buy category, myself. The rates here go down as you buy more...
Peace... Sridhar
Steve Davidson wrote:
Sampsa,
You JUST moved! Looking to move again so soon???
FIOS (in NH) was DSL over fibre up to 20M down. If you are looking for
bandwidth look where Verizon competes with what used to be Bell South.
Another option might be in Washington State or some other high-tech area
with infrastructure that some big company paid for either directly or
indirectly.
Here, in the northernmost NYC suburbs, FiOS is 50Mbps down, 20Mbps up. Available now.
Peace... Sridhar
Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in
CA at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and
something like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the
province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F -
doesn't matter) in the winter to get those rates...
TOTALLY worth it. I don't go outside much anyway, and my computers keep the house uncomfortably warm in the dead of winter.
Peace... Sridhar
I donno... bar drinks? lol
I haven't gone to a unixy group thing in ages... I know the unix group on meetup.com doesn't have any meetings going on a the moment but that'd be cool....
What 'sucks' for me is that my company I work for wants to sublet the office space... But I have a dedicated T1 in there... I should be hosting more then I am now.... But I could always offer that much up....
Ive been playing with:
http://www.superglobalmegacorp.com/
I wouldn't feel bad about hosting a VM or something as when they decided whatever it is they are doing I'll have to get out there QUICK and I wouldn't want to mix up peoples hardware.... But VM's are so trivial to bounce around....
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people) and
> I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I think
> they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
> Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
>
> -- Sent from my Palm Pr
> ________________________________
> Gregg Levine wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
>> fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
>> the rates.
>>
>>
>> That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how
>> much
>> can you get up/down?
>> Sampsa
>>
> Hello!
> Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
> figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
>
> I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
> when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
> all. This is before FIOS of course......
>
> My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
> opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
> one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
> accurate response from that office.
>
> And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
> their version of broadband access for some reason.....
>
Hello!
Well it happens I am always interested in an NYC meet. What did you
have in mind? I typically hang out at the NYLUG meetings, a NYLUG
meeting is do RSN, and then one for Open Solaris, that one is going to
be some what later.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the
Moscow subway."
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people) and
I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I think
they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
-- Sent from my Palm Pr
________________________________
Gregg Levine wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how
much
can you get up/down?
Sampsa
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
accurate response from that office.
And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
their version of broadband access for some reason.....
Hello!
Well it happens I am always interested in an NYC meet. What did you
have in mind? I typically hang out at the NYLUG meetings, a NYLUG
meeting is do RSN, and then one for Open Solaris, that one is going to
be some what later.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the
Moscow subway."
Wow another new yorker!... I'm in finance, with RCN (the cable people) and I've got some 20 down, 2 up for under $100 USD a month... Although I think they do other packages with static ip's etc etc....
Anyone up for a NYC 'meet'?
-- Sent from my Palm Pr
Gregg Levine wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
>
> Hello!
> I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
> fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
> the rates.
>
>
> That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much
> can you get up/down?
> Sampsa
>
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
accurate response from that office.
And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
their version of broadband access for some reason.....
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
FWIW, the baseline electricity rate here is only 11 cents/kWh, but there's
a tiered rate schedule and the extra power pushes me into the 200-300% of
baseline category. That has a marginal rate of 38 cents/kWh.
So Bob what are you planning on doing with the retiring Alpha system?
Keeping it, sorry :-) It's a nice server...
Bob
Sampsa,
You JUST moved! Looking to move again so soon???
FIOS (in NH) was DSL over fibre up to 20M down. If you are looking for
bandwidth look where Verizon competes with what used to be Bell South.
Another option might be in Washington State or some other high-tech area
with infrastructure that some big company paid for either directly or
indirectly.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 19:34
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] CODA replaced by CHARON
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be
available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell
my flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by
Be Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get
14-16 down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got
two lines and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:43, Gregg Levine wrote:
My problem is that my apartment (flat to you) is as old as the
hardware we sometimes discuss, call it tail end of the Sixties. So
even though they recently updated the copper, I do not believe it is
capable of supporting FIOS, but it may be available else where in
Queens.
Well you should do what we do in my building (built during the latter end of the glorious reign of Queen Victoria, 1890s or thereabouts) - just drill a hole in the wall, Conservation Orders be damned :)
That's how I managed to get at least dual LNB satellite ports in every room - the sat guy dropped a single coax and one optical cable from the roof along the outer wall, the coax powers some crazy muxer on the roof that sends 16 LNB feeds over the optical cable into a demux in my machine room with 16 LNB coax outputs. Result: Sky HD everywhere. Woo hoo. Best GBP 2500 ever spent :)
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be
available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell my
flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by Be
Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get 14-16
down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got two lines
and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
Hello!
Well it is available on new construction everywhere in Staten Island,
and everywhere in general on Long Island.
I believe if people want it, then it is available the same way in
Westchester CO.
As for NYC? (Manhattan and the Bronx, also Queens and Brooklyn), well
they got permission to offer the TV service for people who want it,
the data delivery end may also be included.
My problem is that my apartment (flat to you) is as old as the
hardware we sometimes discuss, call it tail end of the Sixties. So
even though they recently updated the copper, I do not believe it is
capable of supporting FIOS, but it may be available else where in
Queens.
In fact regarding the Dalek, Forbidden Planet (The bookstore) is
selling a reasonable range of Doctor Who items, so I've got the Third
Doctor watching me type, and a Dalek trying to get its grubby
protuberances over everything I do.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell my flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by Be Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get 14-16 down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got two lines and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much
can you get up/down?
Sampsa
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
accurate response from that office.
And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
their version of broadband access for some reason.....
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much can you get up/down?
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Phil Mendelsohn <phil at rephil.org> wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA
at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something
like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't
matter) in the winter to get those rates...
Phil
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
But the last time I check on the ConEd rates here they were on a par
with both places. And sometimes they were so low the utility needed to
bundle the power (electric) rates with steam and gas to convince us to
believe them. Remember in NYC as well as in some parts of Westchester
CO, Con Ed supplies both gas and electricity, and steam plus the other
two in Manhattan.
So Bob what are you planning on doing with the retiring Alpha system?
How big is he, and so forth.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't matter) in the winter to get those rates...
Phil
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
