On 08/01/2014 13:24, Richard Clayton wrote: > IP addresses though notionally dynamic and notionally available to be > allocated anywhere in the UK may, depending on the ISP, only get used by > people in a very localised area (and often may be almost static for many > weeks on end) -- but what the explanation is here ?? You'd need to ask
That may be true for cable services, but anything L2TP (normal ADSL via BT, TT, etc) it will go to one of a number of LNSs where the IP may be part of a group. But generally there is no geographic significance to the grouping by LNS, and it may even hit a pool of LNSs. You may find some larger ISPs do have LNSs near metro nodes in BTs network giving a rough "end of the country" type consistency, but not much better than that. However, yes, IPs can stay the same for a long period on ADSL. Then, of course, there are ISPs like us that provide fixed IPs that stick to a customer forever. Many of our customers mention that they are offered "hot girls in Arnold, Nottinghamshire". I would not be surprised to find Arnold has skewed stats. They seem to get it from the whois data with "Andrews & Arnold" in it :-) See http://xkcd.com/713/ -- Director, Andrews & Arnold Ltd www.aa.net.uk -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss
