hehe yeah its awsome...

I live in a test market for a company called surewest (surewest.com). They have this all in one package where i get a fiber drop to my house that includes internet (10mbps), phone line with 100 min long distance (everything outside my area code = long distance), unlimited local calling (everything in my area code = local calling) and cable tv (the standard 200 plus channels) all for the low low price of 99 bucks a month. I can get a static ip from surewest as well for an extra 3 bucks a month. the best part is it didnt cost anythign to install and they put well over 1200 dollars worth of equipment in my house. Surewest is using a proprietary fiber to ethernet converter made by lucent. I looked at the box and it has a wan and a lan port, and then 3 extra ports for phone lines. unfortunately there is no other port on the box that i can CLI into. I really want to do nat, but i think im gonna need to get another router for that, or get a hardware firewall i can plug into behind the gateway...

All i can say is holy @#$#@ when i get on kaaza...