{"id":1027,"date":"2018-01-20T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T04:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2021-12-19T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:18:46","slug":"changed-isp-service-to-att-gigabit-plus-domain-static-ip-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2018\/01\/changed-isp-service-to-att-gigabit-plus-domain-static-ip-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Changed ISP Service to AT&#038;T Gigabit Plus Domain Static IP Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well today I changed ISP\u2019s, away from <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consolidated_Communications\" title=\"Consolidated Communications\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Consolidated Communications<\/a>\u00a0 100mb up and down to <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/\" title=\"AT&amp;T\" rel=\"homepage noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T<\/a>&#8216;s gigabit service up and down. I have been using Consolidated in some form since 2000 or 2001 when they were Winfirst except a brief moment (5 months) when they weren&#8217;t in my current subdivision which was just starting. When I moved to my current address they were Surewest and I had the property management company for our HOA at that time persuade\u00a0them to enter our subdivision early when there were only about 20 houses here. I always had my static ip&#8217;s through them as well.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m on AT&amp;T&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gigabit_Ethernet\" title=\"Gigabit Ethernet\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Gigabit<\/a> internet service and have changed my static ip&#8217;s to their offerings and even though I just pointed to my domain to my new <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IP_address\" title=\"IP address\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">static ip addresses<\/a> about 1 hour ago on GoDaddy as of this posting the DNS caches are propagating and updating already fairly quickly!<\/p>\n<p>Speed tests seem to be right on hit and the technician who came out was helpful skilled and accommodating for a demanding person like me as was the support person I talked to about my static ip addresses configuration. The technician even converted a few of my telephone wall jacks from phone to <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twisted_pair\" title=\"Twisted pair\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">twisted pair<\/a> since I have category 5 <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethernet_physical_layer\" title=\"Ethernet physical layer\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Ethernet cable<\/a> already running throughout my house as one of my requested upgrades when the house was built. The technician also terminated each end of\u00a0 the cable I had going to each room and connected them to a multi-port 1 GB switch I had lying around! Now I have 1 GB <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_area_network\" title=\"Local area network\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">LAN<\/a> connections in kitchen, den, hallway and the other rooms I will switch out the wall plates from telephone 2 x2 \u00a0pair to <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethernet\" title=\"Ethernet\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Ethernet<\/a> twisted pair \u00a0myself!<\/p>\n<p>My servers seem fine and so far everything is great on my new 1GB ISP serving!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well today I changed ISP\u2019s, away from Consolidated Communications\u00a0 100mb up and down to AT&amp;T&#8216;s gigabit service up and down. I have been using Consolidated in some form since 2000 or 2001 when they were Winfirst except a brief moment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2018\/01\/changed-isp-service-to-att-gigabit-plus-domain-static-ip-addresses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639,640,638,641,637,558],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-att","tag-consolidated-communications","tag-gigabit","tag-godaddy","tag-isp","tag-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}