On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 08:50:44PM +0100, Ian bell wrote:
Jonathan McDowell wrote:
With dialup dynamic IPs make more sense as in general there are less dial in ports than users, but broadband is treated by many more people as always on, so you don't reduce your IP address usage by using dynamic addressing.
I think the jury is still out on that one. ISTR Jason Clifford who operates ukfsn.org saying he was surprised how many ADSL users still switch off their PCs every day (I know I do for one).
Oh, sure, lots of people do (we have a customer who seems to connect up on their ADSL to pick up email and then disconnect within less than 5 minutes and do this regularly throughout the day), but you need to have enough IPs assigned so that if everyone connected you'd be ok - with dialup you're limited by the number of lines you have, which is normally less than the number of users, whereas with ADSL all your users can technically connect at once.
J.