Internet connection

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 00:18, Alex White wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > My experience with adsl was that the provider timed out the IP lease and
> > I had to get a new one frequently (at least every 8 hours).
> > 
> > The simplest way I found for that was to use "service network restart"
> > and it just reconnected and worked.  In fact I got so that I just ran
> > that command from cron so I did not have to worry about it after that.
> 
> That's very strange. I have adsl, and despite IP lease expiration 
> every 8 or so hours, I've never had to restart my network. In fact, 
> if dsl dies off for a short period and resyncs, rp-pppoe picks it 
> back up on its own typically.
> 
> I have sbcglobal for a provider, what about yourselves?
> 
> Alex White
> 
I don't use adsl anymore.  Got tired of the hassle and switched to cable
modem. I have now had the same IP on dhcp lease for over 2 years.