[Cialug] Mediacom DesMoines

[Kyle Hamilton]

I second this. I don't have production stuff on my servers. It does say 
in their TOS that you are not supposed to run servers. I just do for 
backup and nerdy fun. DSL just doesn't cut it speed wise unfortunately. 
So yes, nothing production unless you have a business account. They 
don't seem to block any ports, however.


On 02/15/2017 06:55 AM, Matt wrote:
> Be very careful using dyndns with a cable provider. When Charter cable 
> first put their AMAZING(!!!) 500kbps cable internet service in for a 
> large chunk of their service area (in upper-east Tennessee), I signed 
> up.  I got a dyndns subdomain (because they were the only game in town 
> if you wanted dynamic DNS service at that time) and I immediately 
> started learning everything I could about running a Linux web server 
> and a personal IRC server. Everything was fine for about 2 months, 
> when I came home to no internet access.
>
> Turns out that hidden in their wall of text AUP/ToS there are specific 
> rules prohibiting you from running ANY type of server, and they noted 
> in their cancellation letter that I had pointed two domain names 
> (subdomains, really) at their IP addresses.  That life lesson turned 
> me into a diehard DSL user (at least, as soon as DSL became 
> available... several years later).  As a general rule, DSL services 
> will let you do pretty much anything you want (except, obviously, for 
> illegal ventures) with whatever bandwidth you can squeeze out of those 
> two copper wires.  Cable companies get touchy when you use too much of 
> the shared neighborhood bandwidth, or as in my case open a couple of 
> ports that they are afraid MIGHT generate incoming traffic.
>
> If you just want to have an ssh port available to you while you're 
> away from home, you'll (probably... hopefully?) be OK.  If you open 
> port 80 or any other ports associated with web, email, IRC, ftp, or 
> any number of other bandwidth-sensitive services, your cable company 
> may just shut you off.  If they don't do that, they very likely will 
> pitch you a nasty email about how you need to upgrade to their 
> business-class offering if you wish to point domain names at THEIR 
> (Angry CAPS!!) IPs.  I put up with DSL for the better part of the last 
> decade because the cable internet ToS hasn't changed one bit (except 
> that they added that you can't use your full bandwidth "excessively" 
> -- a concept that means whatever they wish it to mean at the time they 
> decide to apply it) since they first started offering cable internet.  
> Luckily, where I live now I can get 75/20Mbps fiber-to-home internet, 
> which basically combines the speed and low latency of cable internet 
> with the ToS of DSL.
>
> Sorry if this came off as a rant.  I just wanted to drive home the 
> fact that cable companies can be very strict about their terms of 
> service, even when they aren't getting their bandwidth used.
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> On 2/13/2017 5:39 PM, Adam Hill wrote:
>>> after you grab a DHCP address for your firewall box or router, set 
>>> it as
>> static
>>
>> In my experience your DHCP addressed IP will stick for equally as 
>> long as
>> this setup unless you somehow wipe out your DHCP lease, change 
>> hardware, or
>> something along those lines.
>>
>> Hardware changes or periods of being offline (and someone else stealing
>> your previously leased IP) are the things that'll change your IP AFAIK.
>>
>> RE Dyndns: Pretty sure CloudFlare does free DNS with dyndns support?
>> Haven't used it since I'm using namecheap's dyndns; lots of domain
>> registrars provide dyndns for free now.  Just write up a 
>> ddclient.conf and
>> leave it running.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:17 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, chris rheinherren wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mediacom only gives static's to Commercial customers. If it's a
>>> residential
>>>> account then they wont be able to have a static IP.
>>>>
>>> Same deal with Charter here in St. Louis. I did find out something tha
>>> might be beneficial - after you grab a DHCP address for your 
>>> firewall box
>>> or router, set it as static - been using the same IP for many years.
>>>
>>> Also figured out the routing standard for the Charter network - if 
>>> your IP
>>> is n.n.n.n, the gateway is usually n.n.n.1.
>>>
>>> IOW, the Charter network doesn't care that you have a DIFFERENT DHCP
>>> address after reboot/reset, only that you are using a valid one. 
>>> Could be
>>> the same for Mediacom?
>>>
>>>          Lee
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