Of course you are correct about the ISP not knowing if one or two or more
PCs are connected to the Internet via a Router.
I should have explained that when installing a Router, it is most often
necessary to contact the ISP since the they can see the Router from their
end. They know it's a Router (or at least my ISP does) and assume the
customer has installed the Router to connect more than one PC so they
charge a nominal rate for a second PC. In my case that is $9.95/ month
Canadian.
I maintained that I installed the Router for firewall protection (which is
true) and only use it for a second PC if I'm changing over systems or
servicing a friends PC - so they don't charge me.
Roy Myers
At 01:27 24/08/2005, you wrote:
Pranav Lal wrote:
Roy,
<snip When I opened the message, I found that Roy Myers had written:
The only possible hitch is that your ISP may become aware you have two PCs
connected to the Router and charge you a small premium for the second
access to
the net.
PL] How would the ISP know givem that only the router's ip address is
visible to the ISP? or am I mistaken about that?
You're not mistaken. It would take very sophisticated analysis of the data
stream for the ISP to detect that more than one user PC
was NATed behind the same public IP. I don't know of any ISP that
penalizes users for running small home networks.
Gary VanderMolen
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