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Re: [Modem] Motorola 2210-02-1006 H E L P Dave,
all former BellSouth customers with 3.0 speed or greater can have a free static ip. Just call up tech sales, get sales, and ask them to add it. |
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Airwolf7Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
kudos:1 Reviews:
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Norman, I sure hope that they don't take away our free Static IP address with Xtreme 3.0 and Xtreme 6.0.
I don't have a free Static IP address at home on my Residential FastAccess account because I have not yet needed one, but I do have the Multi-Static IP addresses on my Business FastAccess accounts. I going to get me one real soon because I'm redoing my home network and adding a Windows Home Server and I'm going to want one for that plus I'm scared that if I don't get one real quick that I'm not going to have that option in the near future and I think that if I get one now that AT&T Southeast will let me keep it if they change things in the future.
I hope that they can see how nice it is for us to have and when they get us fully merged into AT&T that they let everybody with AT&T get one that wants one or at least buy one Static IP address for cheap.
When you merge things you are supposed to take the best things from the two and combine them together to make one better whole. But mergers don't work like that anymore, merger means "I bought you and I got you now".
BellSouth did some things better than SBC and SBC did some things better than BellSouth and they aught to be able to make one better company by putting them together. I know that there were other companies that was merged into SBC but BellSouth was a big one and if the BellSouth CEO would not have been so timid it could have easily went the other way and I sometimes think that it might have been better that way. Sometimes people over here in the BellSouth region complain about things but they just don't know how good they have it here.
Sometimes I wish that the merger would have never happened.
I think now that they have us that they are just going to start to nickel and dime us all to death.
All they really wanted was Cingular anyway. Sometimes I dream that we just take up a collection and buy BellSouth back from them and let them just keep Cingular. I mean just how smart are these SBC people anyway? They changed their name to the most hated name on Earth and then they took Cingular and changed it's name to the most hated name on Earth and then they sucked BellSouth in under the most hated name on Earth. I will chip in my part because BellSouth aught to be a lot cheaper without Cingular.
I know that I'm nuts but I just feel too much uncertainty about this whole thing and I don't even work for them.
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I'm OK now that I got that craziness out of my head.
Norman I'm with you on the DynDNS if David can't get a real Static IP address. I have used it before and it seemed to work real well.
The Netopia can be set to work with the DynDNS service, but you can't do it through the GUI. You have to set it up through the CLI. There are other things that you can't get to through the GUI that you can get to through the CLI.
When I did use DynDNS I did not do it through the Netopia because I did not know that I could set it up through the CLI so I can not verify that the Netopia's built-in DynDNS client works. |
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Airwolf7Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
kudos:1 Reviews:
·Comcast
·AT&T Southeast
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David has FastAccess DSL Ultra. You can go online and manage your account and upgrade your service and add the free Static IP address option if you have Xtreme 3.0 or Xtreme 6.0 and if you have Ultra or DSL Lite you can upgrade to a Static IP address for $15.00.
You can do all of this without calling anybody. Anything that you can do to avoid having to call these people is the best thing that you can do. Sometimes talking to these people can get you screwed up and it is best to talk to the computer online and make your own changes. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 Reviews:
·SONIC.NET
·Pacific Bell - SBC
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said by Airwolf7:Norman, I sure hope that they don't take away our free Static IP address with Xtreme 3.0 and Xtreme 6.0. I have heard of legacy Pacific Bell DSL customers who signed up for a single static IP address when that was offered. As long as they don't migrate to 'at&t Yahoo! HSI', they their package is grandfathered in the system. I don't see why AT&T won't do the same in the Southeast region. It is still SBC management, after all.
I'm scared that if I don't get one real quick that I'm not going to have that option in the near future and I think that if I get one now that AT&T Southeast will let me keep it if they change things in the future.
Probably a valid plan.
When you merge things you are supposed to take the best things from the two and combine them together to make one better whole. But mergers don't work like that anymore, merger means "I bought you and I got you now".
Well, SBC did buy two other RBOCs, and a non-RBOC regional ILEC, before they bought AT&T. And they changed everything over to the Southwestern Bell Telephone way of doing things.
BellSouth did some things better than SBC and SBC did some things better than BellSouth and they aught to be able to make one better company by putting them together. I know that there were other companies that was merged into SBC but BellSouth was a big one and if the BellSouth CEO would not have been so timid it could have easily went the other way and I sometimes think that it might have been better that way. Sometimes people over here in the BellSouth region complain about things but they just don't know how good they have it here.
Sometimes I wish that the merger would have never happened.
At one time, SBC was, "Southwestern Bell Telephone", the smallest of the RBOCs. I am not clear on the details of how they came to be in a position to buy Ameritech; I believe Pacific Telesis was bleeding cash in a failed attempt at creating a cable TV service.
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I'm OK now that I got that craziness out of my head.
Norman I'm with you on the DynDNS if David can't get a real Static IP address. I have used it before and it seemed to work real well.
The Netopia can be set to work with the DynDNS service, but you can't do it through the GUI. You have to set it up through the CLI. There are other things that you can't get to through the GUI that you can get to through the CLI.
When I did use DynDNS I did not do it through the Netopia because I did not know that I could set it up through the CLI so I can not verify that the Netopia's built-in DynDNS client works.
I couldn't use my Netgear FVS114 DynDNS client, even if I wasn't running cascaded NAT (SS4100 modem to Netgear FVS114 router); the router client is only certified for Dynamic DNS accounts, not for Custom DNS accounts. With my own domain, I am using their Custom DNS service.
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Airwolf7:
I see that in some of your posts that have the image of the firewall status that is set to "Low." Is that the recommended setting? I know it was the default setting when I recieved my modem. I then set mine to "Medium." I have the Motorola Netopia 2210-02-1006. |
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