canam101
join:2005-02-18
| domain name, dsl, router question
We've had a cable internet connection, with a static ip. We also registered a domain name, pointing to that ip.
When I connected up the cable modem to the router, and connected the router to the pcs, the one with the http server on it had no problem connecting out so that anybody browsing the domain name could see our web page.
Then I got sympatico dsl for two of the pcs, connecting the dsl modem to the router, and leaving the one with the http server connecting directly to the cable modem, where it continued to have no problems.
The 2 pcs connected to the router/dsl modem had no problem doing email and web browsing - didn't have to change a thing in the router - it adjusted itself, it seems, to the changed ip.
I wanted to test, to make sure that if we switched our domain name to a dynamic dns setup, it would still work.
So I set up a test dynamic domain name with dyndns.org, and used an ip update program to make sure it was pointing to whatever ip sympatico was assigning to us.
I set up the Abyss web server on one of the dsl-fed pcs, but pointing to the test domain name just got me to the dsl modem setup page - no web page.
I'm guessing that if I root around in the router settings I can fix things so that the test domain name will point to the web server, but I don't want to do that - fooling around with that stuff gives me an acid stomach and I don't want to get an ulcer - I want it to work right off the bat, the way it did with our cable setup.
Will the same thing happen if I get another dsl isp, or is this something peculiar to sympatico? As I say, I don't want to have to do more than connect things up, which is all I have ever had to do with our cable setup (Look wireless, which has a miserable upload speed and not much better download, which is why I am going to cancel it).
I know email servers have problems with sympatico, but I don't think they block http, so maybe it's something to do with dsl in general?
I hope not, because I was thinking of getting techsavvy dsl, which has a good rating in canadianisp.com, and which at least lets you have a static ip (for $4 extra/month); but if I'm going to have to do much more than connect things up, the only cable alternative around here, in West Hamilton, is cogeco, which is probably ok, though I've heard they have speed problems.
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