basic question about assigning ip address

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 11:51:05PM -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
> Easier yet, which package do you have with them?  I just checked their
> site and some only provide one static IP.  One of the home packages
> provides 8 static IPs (it's their new services, ADSL2 Link).  All
> other home packages only provide 1 static IP.  Unless they used to
> provide more and customers who were with them when they did got grand
> fathered in.  They may have done that for a while but withdrew it when

They used to have a variety of other packages offering 2, 4, or an arbitrary
(pay a few bucks per extra) number.

> they needed the IPs.  I don't know what IP ranges they have.  If only
> the one in the range you provided, according to checkdomain.com the
> range that they have would only give them 2040 IPs.  At 2 per customer
> that would mean only 1020 customers could be accommodated at one time.

They're a national DSL provider. I think it's safe to say that they've got a
few more than 1020 customers.

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