Re: [PLUG] Re: Verizon FIOS..Any thoughts?

[Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>]

Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:

> > We got the cheapest static IP business line installed at our house 
> > northwest of
> > Philly on Tuesday, as another poster said, they had no qualms about 
> > installing
> > a business line into our house.
>
> They pay for 5 static ip addresses. In 2 months VZ has only changed them 
> once.
> They cannot explain why they changed and they would not change them back 
> either.
>
> Only took VZ 2 days to fix.

I don't get how this happened to your customer.  Our IP's come with a 
default reverse DNS of static-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.phlapa.fios.verizon.net. 
I found it odd it wasn't subnetted and they said I just had the next 4 
IP's (we took the full 5) counting up from the one they assigned me. 
They statically configured the IP in the router, no DHCP is being run. 
As others have said, you can use whatever you want as a router... what 
you probably want to do is connect the FIOS into a switch and then from 
that switch plug in your public accessible servers.  ex. 1 IP/port for 
your office router, 1 IP/port for your web server, etc.

I just noticed they're offering a 5mbit down / 5mbit up plan with a * 
that says more IP's can be requested upon demand.

Regards,
Matt Ayres
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