February 26, 2001
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And so my adventures in Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line land begin. It’s been four years, two months, and six days since our house was first wired with a cable modem. That’s right… since December 1996 we’ve been basking in the perceived high-speed glow of the shared-bandwidth elite. Today, I signed the papers to have a dedicated ADSL connection run to my home. Why? At this point, I can identify three primary reasons:
- To have control over my own subnet of static IP addresses to use and abuse as I see fit, finally ending the fight with the questionably stable dynamic addresses that the DHCP server continually pukes out. Every one of my machines can have it’s own identity and access to the network. And related to this…
- To be able to host my own servers under my own roof before the free ride finally ends at my current place of employ. While I certainly appreciate the opportunity I have had to attach my machine to a redundant T3 connection, it’s time to let go. Plus, I really don’t want to be driving downtown everything time something goes kerflunky.
- To finally bid farewell to the wide-spectrum of @home network-targeted spam clogging up my mailbox. No, I don’t need an instant university diploma in the fast breaking career-enhancing field of working at home, and quite frankly, I don’t care if I’ve been selected to cut my casino bills in half with a new, proven medical breakthrough.
It’s still a couple of weeks before they convert the copper running into the house from straight voice to voice over data, so anything is bound to happen. Stay tuned. The adventure has just started.
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