Connectivity woes in Boston

[John J Boland]

oh, woe is me!

tiac.net/inter.net is changing over to new access numbers and i no longer get
my static address, which was part of my premium service, i get a dynamic
address now.  i haven't been all that happy with the service over the last
several months (slowww downloads, several retries to connect).

so, i've been looking at high-speed internet access options in the city
of Boston: DSL and cable modems.
Unfortunately, i'm 500 feet too far from my CO for DSL. 
Cablevision of Boston had struck up a deal with @home for cable-based
internet service.  Since at&t took over, they haven't changed the deal with
@home and that appears to be the only service i can get. the aup from @home
is very restrictive, no servers of any kind.  the one guy i managed to find in
customer service, who knew anything about anything, gave me the impression
that they monitored connections/usage and would terminate the account of
any suspected servers and that @home was geared more towards basic web surfing
and their email service. so, i wouldn't be able to set up my own mail or web
server.

so, i guess i've got two questions: 
1) are there any other high-speed options available in the city of Boston?
2) should i just ignore the aup and setup my own servers?

tia...
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