Wireless routers and dynamic DNS

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 01:11:14 UTC 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:52 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> Monday, February 27, 2012, 12:57:18 PM, Kevin wrote:
>
>> I'm just converting from static IPs to HTML and getting my web server
>> to work with this.
>
>> I have a Netgear N-300 wireless router that offers good support for
>> this so long as I'm using dyndns.org to manage changes to IP numbers.
>> This costs a small amount of money, and is only one of a number of
>> choices that I might otherwise use.
>
>> I'm curious if there are other routers out there, wireless or not,
>> that work with other vendors?
>
> Another thought - I switched from ATT DSL [slow, expensive, very
> reliable] to Comcast cable [fast, expensive, not reliable, terrible
> customer service]. Comcast cable has fixed IPs available [more $], but
> asking around, they are supposedly more reliable. If you want fixed
> IPs, that may be an option.

Interesting, but I don't think Comcast is available here.  It's pretty
much Charter or nothing for cable.  Besides, this is home use and
outages, while super annoying, don't cost me money.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD




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