"Bacon, John via WLUG" <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
So I suspect that it's not GTT that is really providing DSL but more likely Verizon.
Yes. I am not sure what GTT is doing for me. If anything goes wrong they blame Verizon. I think GTT controls the routing of my IP address. They send packets to Verizon and pay them to deliver them to my house.
And since VZ is trying to get out of the copper business
I don't have a copper fetish. I have a DSL modem, which is controlled by GTT. I think it's garbage if GTT does not keep making it work. On the front of the modem is an RJ45 socket. I plug one end of a cable into that and the other end into a ethernet card in an old Linux machine. IP packets with my address show up there, I don't really care how.
Im not sure where your web servers are hosted
They are hosted on the afore mentioned Linux running Apache. The mailserver is the same machine running Postfix. There is a second ethernet card in that machine, which connects to my home network. http://www.free-comp-shop.com/none/wireless.html#diagram -- Keith