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Campus network WAN IP address

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I'm connected to the campus network at my apartment. I check the computer's local IP address and the public IP adderss and noticed it was the same (IP: 131.x.x.x). Did my campus just buy a block of IP addresses from their ISP? How else can I be getting a public IP adderss on my computer?

-edit- I just ran a test web server to see if I was indeed connected directly to the internet. My web page loaded up, which proves I'm directly connected to the internet. Wouldn't it be cheaper for the University to do NAT?
 
you don't purchase address space, you request it. Being a university they were the first part of the internet and probably requested/were allocated it way back.
 
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