Monday, May 12, 2003

My DSL Connection Paul suggested that I could stop blogging with UserLand Radio now that I have DSL. Actually, I had BellSouth.net's "FastAccess"  DSL in Miami Beach, also; there it replaced a digital cable modem service which suffered from a poorly-run network. (The local network was often near saturation (pR0n freaks in my condo, maybe?) and the DNS was frequently down or overloaded.) I assumed that the phone company would provide better service than the cable TV company, and that's pretty much been the case. On the other hand, I've been having some DSL weirdness which I finally realized (after ruling out the alarm system) may be due to DirecTV, as the satellite tuner is also plugged into the phone line. I will be researching this more later. One annoying thing about this DSL service is that my IP address changes frequently, and there are at least 2 Class A IP address blocks that are used. This made it difficult to access my company's servers because the firewall had to be configured to let my IPs through. We've thus had to open things up to whole blocks of addresses. In any case, I don't wish to run my own server just to serve my weblog. Perhaps the new hosted Movable Type service will be worthy, I don't know. One thing I'd like is the ability to post from anywhere on the web, which Radio does not provide. 9:10:20 PM    comment []