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Schraalhans Keukenmeester

$US$39.95 a month. The equivalent (for downloading) of 10 T-1 connections. I actually get that kind of speed, too, except with some slow servers, as long as I confine the servers to Chicago and east. West of there, I get only about 5 Megabits-second. The connection includes 10 Megabytes of web space (that I do not use, since I do not need a web site), e-mail with 10 different logins, Usenet.

Those ports might be closed too. Actually I do not know if they close any ports, but they say you must not run servers unless you pay extra for business service instead of residential. And since I do not get a static IP address unless I pay for it, they can tell that way.

On the other hand, my dynamic IP address was constant from March 13 until yesterday when the connection seems to have failed around 2AM. I was asleep at the time, so did not notice it. There was no power failure here at that time, and the Fibre-to-ethernet box is powered through a built-in UPS that is plugged into a conventional UPS anyway. Here is part of the router's log:

Apr-19-2006 04:54:54 PPPoE line connected Apr-19-2006 04:54:43 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 04:54:42 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 04:54:26 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 04:54:25 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 04:54:08 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 04:54:07 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 04:53:51 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 04:53:49 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 04:53:33 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly ..... Apr-19-2006 02:10:16 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 02:10:15 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 02:09:59 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 02:09:58 Server timeout! Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 01:56:45 PPPoE line connected Apr-19-2006 01:56:37 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 01:56:36 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 01:56:19 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 01:56:18 PPPoE Retry Fail Disconnect PPPoE line Apr-19-2006 01:56:02 PPPoE try to re-connect automaticly Apr-19-2006 01:56:01 Server timeout! Disconnect PPPoE line Mar-13-2006 21:44:03 PPPoE line connected Mar-13-2006 21:44:02 WAN: Auto Dialup Try to establish PPPoE line Mar-13-2006 21:44:02 System started

-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. V PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ^^-^^ 06:45:01 up 9 days, 20:11, 3 users, load average: 4.11, 4.18, 4.09