I have for years had an ISP that supplied a dedicated IP.
My systems are a mix of linux, BSD, and Window's. I have
tried to find an ISP in the Houston, Texas area that would
just supply an IP and internet service. I have all the routers
I need without buying another and I do not wont their modifided brouser.
or email service. any help would be helpful.

Ron

Wow, you registered 4 years ago and just made your first post! Unfortunately, you didn't explain your problem clearly.

It depends on the ISP and the types of services desired etc. Have you asked the ISPs if your equipment is compatible with theirs and if they allow customer owned equipment?

What type of service are you looking for i.e. DSL, cable, FIOS, uverse etc.
I would assume that most DSL and cable providers use similar equipment. ISP phone services provided ISPs like cable may not be. In most cased you can configure their MODEM as a bridge and use your own equipment.

Again it depends on the ISP but I don't know of any requirement that you have to use their email services etc.

Comcast/Xfinity provides service in Houston, and you can either buy or lease a plain modem and use your router with it. The only time buying your own cable modem gets complicated is if you are also subscribing to Comcast Digital Voice telephone service, and it doesn't sound like you are planning on doing that.

If you are planning on running publicly accessible servers, you would need a business account since anything more than trivial usage would be against the terms of service for a residential account. Running a mail server for receiving mail definitely requires a business account since Comcast, like most ISP, blocks port 25 on residential accounts. For a dynamic IP, you can own your own modem on either a residential or business account. If you want a static IP, you must have a business account and use a Comcast-supplied gateway modem/router.

I did not explain that I need a ADSL service with at least 10.0 Mbits down and something within
1.0Mbits up for a small business. The correcton to the providers gateway/moden into
a bridge is a good suggesion I had not thought of. In responce to you question why I
have not responed sooner, The ISP I had was able to answer most questions and provide
network help for my network questions. I did belong to a SIG group that supplied
a lot of help. I use the linux questions forums to get help or answers to my questions.
The network forum has saved my bacon several times.

Ron

Pretty sure the only people who have ADSL is ATT. They may or may not have it in your area. They don't want to sell or support DSL anymore. They failed on their attempt to try to force a new type of connection on the DSL-AMs and service has suffered. Their support is scripted offshore and don't know anything or can't access anything. You can't get to level 2 support either. And by the time you pay $70 a month for that slow of speed you might as well get 5 times that with twc or other.

Your only somewhat OK choice is to try cable and just get the modem.


Point to point wireless is still out there but costs per bit.

Same thing as satellite, per bit.

I sometimes use a 4g hotspot on my router but even with limits it burns up data in a few days.

I have decided to go with a ADSL connection with att, not my first
chose but the only option in my area. The support is bad, but I have
Linuxquestons. I plan to install a dialup modem as a backup to the ADSL.
Installing and getting the modem working under Linx will be a challage. Thanks
to everone who helped and unless soneone has a better plan I will close
this thread.

Ron