I've had Sprint Broadband wireless for several years, and have had a static public IP address from day one....
George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: AM interference on long cable run > Actually it must be pretty common on the wireless > distribution ISP systems. I know of one in San > Antonio that was set up that way, and one in New > Mexico that had a public IP address for customers till > they lost a port and it went to private. The one here > gave us a public IP address for a couple of years and > suddenly changed a few months ago. We had to put the > new IP address in the radio modem here to connect back > to the internet but no longer could be reached from > the internet. > > All normal TCP/IP packets work just fine, and EchoLink > using a proxy works OK, but we can't use direct UDP > packets to another site. > > Still trying to figure out a work around without > having to set up a dedicated proxy somewhere that > would allow us to use the IP address of that proxy for > the UDP I/O. > > 73 - Jim W5ZIT >
