[PLUG] Verizon Business DSL

["M. Jackson Wilkinson" <jackw@jounce.net>]

Okay, so I made a decision this morning, a little undereducated and I'm 
hoping I don't get taken to town for it... hopefully you guys will have 
some supportive insight, but I'm not counting on it.

I have DirecTVDSL right now (formerly Telocity) at my house and run a 
linux-based server off of it and gateway the rest of my home through it. 
 It has a static IP via dhcp and generally-good availability, and I've 
been quite happy with it.

So DirectTV decided that the DSL division was going to shut down as it 
wasn't profitable enough, and I was faced with the task of finding a new 
home for my machine whose services I've found I'd have trouble living 
without.  After some research, it seemed like the only gig in town after 
DTV fell would be Verizon (Warrington, Bucks County... everyone around 
me gets great coverage from Covad and such, but not the 215-491 exchange).

Ugh, Verizon.  But I didn't really have many other choices in the 
matter, so I bit the bullet this morning and got their entry-level 
business dsl for $25 more than my DTV dsl, as I need the static IP as 
far as I'm concerned.  When they asked what OS I was running, I said 
Linux, and then realized when she asked if that was a Macintosh, that I 
needed a "better" answer and said I was running XP.

So when I get this modem from them, what should I expect?  Ethernet 
output, or USB or something?  Will the service run on PPPoE even though 
it's a static-IP based service?

Are DynamicDNS services sufficiently good these days that I wasted $50 
over the discounted home rate by opting for the business plan?

Essentially, will I have to take advantage of their 30-day guarantee?

Thanks,
Jack


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