So, my dear husband greeted me last night with the sheepish expression of a man who has changed network providers without asking his wife. He has signed us up for speakeasy dsl at our new house, which shall give us twice the bandwidth and nifty low-ping features for Quaking and a shaking—however, it will not be up and running when we move in. In fact, we won’t have a network connexion, he estimates, for a week.
So does anyone have a static IP address they aren’t using and want to keep my site alive during that week? Otherwise, I shall be forced to go on hiatus and not blog during the newsful and doubtless hilarious process of moving in. Anyone? Anyone?
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We're covered
LadyLong has graciously consented to let us park our server on her network. So, whenever our DSL gives out (they disconnected the phone line a while ago; I don’t really know why it’s still up), we’ll have some place to go until speakeasy and covad finish the installation. There will probably be an outage of a day or so whenever this happens (need time to move the box and change the DNS records), but it will be short.
Re: We're covered
Actually, unless you specifically told them to or you stopped paying the bills, it would be illegal for the phone company to disconnect your DSL, even if you don’t have an active voice line (although, of course, you’d still need to have the actual phone wiring). It’s a good thing. Although sometimes it can go to extremes….this won’t matter so much in your case, but if you ever switch from an ILEC to a CLEC at the same residence, be extra special sure to call the ILEC and have them stop billing you, because they won’t stop automatically.