First, my DNS updater utility (which I actually paid for) craps out and refuses to update DynDNS whenever my IP changes. I reverted back to an older utility and am back up. Then, Mindspring/Earthlink decides that I don't want to even be provided with an IP and my DSL modem just sits and stares into space. Blinking. Honestly, that has happened once before and appeared to be fixed with restarting the modem and router, but last night I was on-and-off-and-usually-more-off for several hours. Finally, once back on, for the first time in the ~1 year since I added my hillbilly captcha to comments, I got comment spam (spom). Theres only been 10 so far on a single entry, but that's how it always starts...
Perhaps this has been discussed before (A search for "static ip" didn't locate a topic that addressed this from what I could tell) but is getting a static IP prohibitively expensive with Earthlink?
Posted by: Mason at April 29, 2007 12:06 PMIt's $15/month for a static IP (http://www.earthlink.net/software/extras/staticip/). Considering that it would only eliminate the need for IP updater software and that I've had one problem with that in several years, the extra $180/year seems a bit much.
Posted by: sstrader at April 29, 2007 02:31 PMPerhaps you have investigated other ISPs but Bellsouth includes static IP in their two Xtreme package offerings ($37.95 and $42.95 per month -- Speeds are 3.0mps/256k and 6.0mps/512k). The Earthlink packages at first glance are marginally more expensive for similar features and I can't see if Earthlink bundles static IP with their higher tier packages. Maybe they do.
Perhaps it's a wash in terms of money spent or perhaps you are even still netting savings with Earthlink with whatever package you are satisfied with (factoring out the cost of the occasional headache). I must say that I've been with Bellsouth now for over 7 years (at two different locations) and they have been rock solid.
Posted by: Mason at April 29, 2007 02:55 PM