| Free Static IP So what are the chances that my ISP won't charge me extra money to have a static IP? |
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| said by steve1515:So what are the chances that my ISP won't charge me extra money to have a static IP? $#!+, I want a sub-net! A routable sub-net. |
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Alexandria, VA | said by AstroBoy:said by steve1515:So what are the chances that my ISP won't charge me extra money to have a static IP? $#!+, I want a sub-net! A routable sub-net. Meh. Unless you're looking to run services - which is against the ToS of most ISPs, these days - there's really no benefit to having a routable subnet.
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| said by nixen:said by AstroBoy:said by steve1515:So what are the chances that my ISP won't charge me extra money to have a static IP? $#!+, I want a sub-net! A routable sub-net. Meh. Unless you're looking to run services - which is against the ToS of most ISPs, these days - there's really no benefit to having a routable subnet. I do run servers, but the point was that even with business class ISPs the still make you pay extra for static IPs and routed blocks. 
I'm hoping that will change and you will just get a routed block (or static IP) with your standard level of business class service. |
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Alexandria, VA | said by steve1515:I do run servers, but the point was that even with business class ISPs the still make you pay extra for static IPs and routed blocks. I'm hoping that will change and you will just get a routed block (or static IP) with your standard level of business class service. Yeah: kind of annoying that most of them only seem to want to sell you a clump of individual IPs. It's like, "thanks, that makes setting up my firewall SO much easier". 
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| Yup, I know what you mean... I have 9 IPs right now, and they are all over the place.
Not really a big deal for my situation, but for some that's crazy. |
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| reply to steve1515
I'm also hoping that static IPs will become more prevalent. IPv6 allows for an insane amount of IP addresses.
I wouldn't mind if the basic residential goes form 1 dynamic IP to 1 static IP for the same price. They should also make getting multiple static IPs much cheaper, or even differentiate between DL/UL speed and number of static IPs (pick your speed, pick the number fo IP addresses you want).
I'd also like to see the lessening of restrictions for hosting servers on residential connections, from 'no' to: can't make any money from any serverice the server(s) provide and can't draw a ridiculous amount of bandwidth (which is debatable considering bittorent and serving of high bandwidth media streams). but i don't have high hopes on this part. |
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The last I checked the Terms of Service with one of my DSL providers, Frontier, they said that I can run servers just as long as I don't make money off of it, and of course, labeled later on in the TOS, I'm not abusing the service. Verizon's TOS is a little more harsh, saying no servers what so ever however I run servers regularly on my DSL line and I've never heard a thing from Verizon.
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