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Date:	Sun, 11 May 2003 13:06:16 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Static IP

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> I remember being told that one's Home-Network-with-
> internet-connections-for-each-box options were clearly
> better with a Static IP. Specifically, that you could
> set up certain things that the ISP would otherwise much
> rather prevent, or charge you a lot extra for. (That
> may have more to do with running Sites or servers from
> home -- I'm not sure. It's ultimately a bandwidth usage
> issue, I believe.)

Hiya Foxey,

1) Bandwidth is darned expensive -- just try to set up a streaming media
site and watch the dollars fly out the door faster than the audiovideo
bits. Note that there's a difference between "bandwidth" and "traffic";
bandwidth is the maximum number of bits you can send per second whether
or not you actually use it, and traffic is the total number of bytes you
send or receive. When I and two streaming media consultants compared
notes a year ago we all concurred that the ISPs charge for the bandwidth
but specify it in terms of traffic (total traffic when using 100% of
bandwidth). Lots of queueing theory and on-the-fly compression ratio
changes if you want streaming media.

2) Most ISPs give you a few megabytes on their own servers for your
"personal web pages" and you can cloak the ISP's name with your own
domain so that, for example, your web pages at
http://jr_fox.pacbell.net/ can actually look like
http://www.TheGreatFoxUniverse.com/ if you want. Scoot yourself over to
ZoneEdit if you want to do this.

3) A lot of ISPs specifically forbid you from running a server on a DHCP
connection. It's not a technical problem, they just don't want you to
do it.

- Peter

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