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Thread ID: 66197	2006-02-14 20:44:00	Telecom Fixed IPs	Erayd (23)	PC World Chat

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430394	2006-02-14 20:44:00	Well the good news is that Telecom will now allow you to have a fixed IP on a residential line. The bad news is that it'll cost you $20/month. Yeah there's a shortage, but $20?	Erayd (23)
430395	2006-02-14 20:47:00	Well the good news is that Telecom will now allow you to have a fixed IP on a residential line. The bad news is that it'll cost you $20/month. Yeah there's a shortage, but $20?For God's sake differentiate. Xtra provide ISP services. Telecom provides DSL lines. If you're buying a static IP off Xtra it is expensive. Stacks of other ISP's offer them at much reduced prices.	ninja (1671)
430396	2006-02-14 20:50:00	Yes, but I'm in the unfortunate situation of being in a contract with Xtra. If there was a way to get another ISP to provide the address without breaking the contract, believe me I would take it.	Erayd (23)
430397	2006-02-14 20:52:00	Shortage? How is that relevant? If you are connected 24/7, as most on cable or DSL do then you are hogging one IP address 24/7. What does it matter if it is fixed or from a pool? Its a $20/month "because we can" fee. Nothing more, nothing less. Telstra-Cable has fixed IP by default If you want fixedIP-DSL, then swap to IHUG :p	personthingy (1670)
430398	2006-02-14 20:59:00	Shortage? How is that relevant? If you are connected 24/7, as most on cable or DSL do then you are hogging one IP address 24/7. What does it matter if it is fixed or from a pool?True, but imagine if it assigned every customer a static IP by default. Not every customer is online at the same time, so it maximises their IP pool (although admittedly not by much). Its a $20/month "because we can" fee. Nothing more, nothing less.Couldn't agree more. If you want fixedIP-DSL, then swap to IHUG :pI can't, I'm in a contract I don't have the spare cash to break out of. Also I've been told that IHug routes some of it's international traffic via satellite - that kind of latency is unacceptable.	Erayd (23)
430399	2006-02-14 21:01:00	NO-IP	Rob99 (151)
430400	2006-02-14 21:10:00	NO-IP Yea with No-IP you don't need a static IP address. I've been using No-IP at work for over a year now and never had a problem & it's FREE! :thumbs:	CYaBro (73)
430401	2006-02-14 21:17:00	True, but imagine if it assigned every customer a static IP by default. Not every customer is online at the same time, so it maximises their IP pool (although admittedly not by much).Correct me if I am wrong, but your IP only changes when you disconnect or turn off your modem, correct? If so, the vast majority of people leave their modem on 24/7/365 so I don't see how it not having static IPs allows them to maximize their IP pool considering everyone connected needs an IP address and most people are connected the whole time. :confused:	maccrazy (6741)
430402	2006-02-14 21:20:00	Correct me if I am wrong, but your IP only changes when you disconnect or turn off your modem, correct? If so, the vast majority of people leave their modem on 24/7/365 so I don't see how it not having static IPs allows them to maximize their IP pool considering everyone connected needs an IP address and most people are connected the whole time. :confused:They change mine every day, regardless of what I do with the router. Most of the time it's just on 24/7, yet the address still changes. I do use NO-IP at the moment (and have done for the last 7 months) but I find it severely limiting. When trying to point an actual domain at it it just doesn't work.	Erayd (23)
430403	2006-02-14 21:30:00	Correct me if I am wrong, but your IP only changes when you disconnect or turn off your modem, correct? If so, the vast majority of people leave their modem on 24/7/365 so I don't see how it not having static IPs allows them to maximize their IP pool considering everyone connected needs an IP address and most people are connected the whole time. :confused:It's surprising how many people are not on 24/7. I'd say at least 50% of our UBS customers are not 24/7 connected users. You've got to remember that the PC World forums are not representative of the population. The people here are likely to have a more technical focus. But the average Ma and Pa user is vastly different.	ninja (1671)
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