[GreenKeys] i-Telex info...

[Chris Elmquist]

I'm pretty sure a static IP from your ISP is a big deal because to them
it means some significant things:

	0) they are rare.  The IPV4 address space is pretty much
	consumed and so a dedicated IP that cannot be reused when
	idle (such as dynamic IPs are) is a valuable commodity.

	1) they assume you are going to run servers and services facing
	the Internet.  You need a static IP because client applications
	want to find you at the same place all the time.

	2) because of 1) you need more bandwidth facing the Internet
	since you are serving traffic outward more than or at least
	as much as you are pulling it in.  A consumer cable or DSL
	connection is asymmetric with a fat pipe coming at you and
	a narrow one leaving since it is assumed (and even enforced)
	that consumers are not running servers facing the Internet.
	A business account is almost always symmetric, with equal
	bandwidth in both directions and that costs more.

I think it's been clarified that iTelex does not need a static IP on
the WAN side of your router but probably does on the LAN side.  This is
so that your router can do port forwarding to an unmoveable IP address
on your LAN.

Many home routers now can serve DHCP leases that are the same IP
address every time a specific device requests a lease.  This is called
a RESERVATION.  It's like a static IP except that it doesn't require the
device (the iTelex gadget in this case) to be specifically configured
for a static IP.  Instead, it can continue to do DHCP and the router
is the thing that makes it static-like by always giving it the same
address every time it requests.   This is the preferred way to setup
your LAN since you then get to control the assignment of the IPs all in
one place--  at your DHCP server-- which is most likely also your router.

Chris NØJCF

On Saturday (04/15/2017 at 01:09PM -0700), Richard Knoppow wrote:
>    I rather wonder if its a security issue. I have a dial up account still
> active to back up the WiFi. It assigns a new IP every time. Not sure of the
> AT&T WiFi but I can check it to see if the IP remains constant.
> 
> On 4/15/2017 11:47 AM, tony.podrasky wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 04/15/2017 10:46 AM, Kenneth Gartland wrote:
> >>Hi guys!
> >>
> >>I had great problems with Bell Canada flatly refusing to
> >>give me a "Static" IP address vs. a "Dynamic" one...
> >
> >Yeah , - tell me about it!
> >
> >I asked COX (cable) for a static I.P. address and they said
> >that I'd have to switch to a business package (instead of a
> >consumer one). I'm already paying $80/mo for just internet
> >access (no TV, no phone). The business one was outrageous!
> >
> >I "fixed" the problem by taking an old laptop, putting Linux
> >on it, deleting everything that allows incoming access to the
> >WAN, and leaving it up and connected permanently. I've had the
> >same I.P. address for almost a year now.
> >
> >I don't know why they make such a big deal out of giving someone
> >a static I.P. address. The amount of people who would ask for
> >one is probably close to insignificant.
> >
> >UE,
> >K2EAA - TONY
> >NNNN
> >ZCZC
> >
> 
> -- 
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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Chris Elmquist