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Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote: > I received a surprizing but not totally unexpected letter from DCAnet that > effective October 1st they are dropping DSL services as Verizon is > dropping support and provisioning of DSL for them. It also goes on to > mention that this is in spite of their regulatory requirment to do so. [...] > I am curious if ther are others out there that still like to do there own > thing or is this now a thing of the past? I know I coud get static IP from > other providers and I could continue DSL from Verizon but the static IP > packages are very expensive. I do not need speed. My 4 Meg DSL has served > me well. I've been using Speakeasy (aka Covad aka Megapath these days after a number of mergers) since 2006 so you may check with them. http://www.megapath.com/data/ For some reason they no longer mention residential DSL on their website, but try to call them anyway. I have a regular (copper wire) phone service from Verizon though (not FIOS) - not sure how much it matters*. And Verizon just recently confirmed me that they simply would not provide static IP to residential customers (that is, without corporare tax ID). Thanks. -------------------------------- * About 10 years ago in other state Speakeasy told me they could not provide me a shared line DSL to my address because "there was too much fiber". AT&T (who was the "incumbent" and owned all wires) did not refuse to provide a business DSL solution (with static IPs) to me togerher with phone though. I also recently asked Speakeasy about their voice (phone) services over the same DSL: this would be cheaper than a nation-wide landline plan from Verizon, but lacks emergency calling during power outages. -- Dmitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug