RE: Re: ISDN vs ADSL

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

>same: you have 1 dynamic IP address assigned to your ADSL
>interface at home, and another one at the Exchange. Your interface's IP
address is not
>accessable from the internet, - only the Exchange's address is (to HTTP
>traffic anyway).

YES!  This is what I was talking about!!

>Some experiments performed by list members with ADSL bear
>this out, we WERE able to access a listmembers home server by
>PING and FTP, but NOT via HTTP.

Yep...I tested that too.

>BT's technical support people also told me
>that it just plain isn't possible to host a webserver on it. I'd be
>unbelievably happy for you (or anyone else for that matter) to prove me
(and BT's techies)
>wrong on this one! as that would remove the biggest single barrier to
me
>adopting ADSL.

Me too!!!

>Any listmembers able to absolutely, definitively state that they
>are hosing a webserver at home on an ADSL line, please step forward!!
(and
>post the URL please!)

Please post it to this list!

I too would LOVE the bandwidth of ADSL but (for me) the lack of webserver
support rules it out completely.

M.



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