[NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Providers

[Aaron Goldblatt]

A somewhat related question to the topic of late:

I've had cable with Charter/@Home, and I steadfastly refuse to go back.  
Their billing practices annoy me.

I switched from cable to SWBell's DSL service in April, 2000.  I was wildly 
satisfied with the service, and experienced limited downtime.  The down side, 
however, was cost.  I was paying on the order of $180/mo for two POTS lines, 
the DSL service, and five static IP addresses.

About a month ago, I jumped from SWBell to Sprint's ION service, and have 
managed to cut my monthly bill in half.  The only down side is that I am now 
restricted to one IP address.

All well and good, except that today my wife (a Sprint employee) called me 
from work to tell me that Sprint is killing ION and disconnecting the network.

Does someone know of a coherent comparative list ... or even a list without 
comparison ... of DSL providers still operating in Fort Worth?  Important 
features for me are:

- Availability of static IP address.  PPPoE is not acceptable.
- Low-volume server permission.  I don't expect the provider to provide 
support for my servers, or offer backup MX reception or DNS service, as I can 
get that elsewhere.  I simply want to be left alone when I turn up my mail 
server for goldblatt.net.
- Price is important, but less important than the previous two items.

Thanks.

ag