> Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 

> 2.) There is absolutely no justifiable reason to charge extra for a static IP

> number for an "always on" connection - and honest good ISPs don't do that. In

> fact, Dynamic IP numbers are an anachronism from the dial-in era. I use this

> as one of the criteria to distinguish between reasonable and crappy

> providers.

 

I can think of a justifiable reason.

Number of customers ISP has > number of IP address space ISP may have.

Traditionally that has always been the model ISPs work on, hence static IP=Premium.

The package you describe as having sounds like a ‘business’ package as opposed to ‘residential’.

Those have been static for a very long time (if not since inception).

 

> The sole purpose of B4H in my view was yet another means of stealthily shoving

> taxpayers money in to Telstra's bottomless throat in order to make it

> financially more attractive for the privatization

 

0_0

 

 

Jay P. Wulf
Project Manager. HealthConnect SA
Health information when you need it.

Ph. 08-822 62969
http://www.healthconnectsa.org.au

Disclaimer: The opinions in this posting are just that, opinions. My statements in no way ought to be understood to be the position of my employer.

 

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