*POLL* Are five (5) Static IPs worth an extra $15/mo?

[MichaelD]

I'm too far away from the CO to get an upload speed increase. The only "upgrade" I can make is to go to "Enhanced DSL" for an extra $15/mo. For my fifteen bucks, I get five (5) static IPs.

Is it worth it? I run an FTP server from the house, have already bought (and parked) and domain name for a future website. You tell me. See the poll?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Go for it. Most cable ISP's charge anywhere from $4 - $7 per IP. My T1 line is going to cost $20 extra per static IP :Q

nik

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Go for it. Most cable ISP's charge anywhere from $4 - $7 <STRONG>per</STRONG> IP. My T1 line is going to cost $20 extra per static IP :Q

nik

You have a T1 at home? Can I be your good friend?

 

[notfred]

Do you have 5 PCs? If so, yes. If not, no.

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Go for it. Most cable ISP's charge anywhere from $4 - $7 <STRONG>per</STRONG> IP. My T1 line is going to cost $20 extra per static IP :Q

nik

You have a T1 at home? Can I be your good friend?

I think he has a business from his home.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: notfred
Do you have 5 PCs? If so, yes. If not, no.

Well, I have three right now...possibly a fourth by the end of the summer. Only two machines are on 24/7 though. I'd just do DHCP anyway...why expose boxes needlessly to the world, you know?

 

[joohang]

Doesn't your upload rate suck any ways? Not worth it then, imo.

But if you don't already have any static IP addresses, why not? Go for it.

 

[MichaelD]

Good morning bumpy. Will be ordering or not today. I still haven't decided. For some reason, $15 just sticks in my craw...if it was $10, I would just do it...but still, I am somehow drawn the world of a static IP.

For some stupid reason, I'm hoping my speeds will somehow increase...I know they won't...but I'm trying to subconsciously justify the extra $15. Heheheheh.

 

[MichaelD]

Oh c'mon; nobody in OT has an opinion on this? I find that mind-boggling.

 

[Cattlegod]

buy a router and get all the IPs you want.

 

[ndee]

So you're just getting 5IPs with your slow-a$$ connection? Then don't do it, if you want to upgrade your upload in near future to about 1 or 2MBit, hell yeah, do it.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: ndee
So you're just getting 5IPs with your slow-a$$ connection? Then don't do it, if you want to upgrade your upload in near future to about 1 or 2MBit, hell yeah, do it.

I'm not thinking of doing this for any other reason other than having a stable, non-changing IP. I have looked into upgrading my upload speed; I'm too far away from the CO for anything other than what I have, unfortunately.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ndee
So you're just getting 5IPs with your slow-a$$ connection? Then don't do it, if you want to upgrade your upload in near future to about 1 or 2MBit, hell yeah, do it.

I'm not thinking of doing this for any other reason other than having a stable, non-changing IP. I have looked into upgrading my upload speed; I'm too far away from the CO for anything other than what I have, unfortunately.

What's "CO"? Check out http://www.dyndns.org, there you can have a non-changing Hostname like http://michaeld.mine.nu or something. I think that will save you 15$ cuz nobody would remember your IP Address...

 

[Rallispec]

i wouldnt do it... what is the point of 5 static IP's? All you need is one... then just get a router and share the connection with all of them and just assign each computer to a specific port, in essence-- giving you an infinit number of static IP's

ie:
192.168.0.1:10
192.168.0.1:11
192.168.0.1:12
192.168.0.1:13

and so on.

 

[dakata24]

does your dsl ip change that much? if not, i can't see justifying $15 just for static ips. they do have those services where you install a progie to monitor your ip address and change it accordingly. ive never seen my attbi cable change ips though it's dhcp..

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ndee
So you're just getting 5IPs with your slow-a$$ connection? Then don't do it, if you want to upgrade your upload in near future to about 1 or 2MBit, hell yeah, do it.

I'm not thinking of doing this for any other reason other than having a stable, non-changing IP. I have looked into upgrading my upload speed; I'm too far away from the CO for anything other than what I have, unfortunately.

What's "CO"? Check out http://www.dyndns.org, there you can have a non-changing Hostname like http://michaeld.mine.nu or something. I think that will save you 15$ cuz nobody would remember your IP Address...

Yeah, If I wanted to host a webpage, I'd have to do that anyway. But in order to use DynDNS, it helps to have a fixed IP. DynDNS typically takes a few days (from what I've read) to change your "pointer" if your IP changes, so a static IP would help. I dunno...I prolly just flip a coin.

 

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ndee
So you're just getting 5IPs with your slow-a$$ connection? Then don't do it, if you want to upgrade your upload in near future to about 1 or 2MBit, hell yeah, do it.

I'm not thinking of doing this for any other reason other than having a stable, non-changing IP. I have looked into upgrading my upload speed; I'm too far away from the CO for anything other than what I have, unfortunately.

What's "CO"? Check out http://www.dyndns.org, there you can have a non-changing Hostname like http://michaeld.mine.nu or something. I think that will save you 15$ cuz nobody would remember your IP Address...

Yeah, If I wanted to host a webpage, I'd have to do that anyway. But in order to use DynDNS, it helps to have a fixed IP. DynDNS typically takes a few days (from what I've read) to change your "pointer" if your IP changes, so a static IP would help. I dunno...I prolly just flip a coin.

even without paying for a static IP.. you probably actually have one.. i mean i've never seen mine change ever.

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
DynDNS typically takes a few days (from what I've read) to change your "pointer" if your IP changes, so a static IP would help. I dunno...I prolly just flip a coin.

Not true. My IP changes from my college every 2 hours; Dyndns catches the changes in less than 10 seconds. This is for the free service too, not their pay-to-play stuff. Now, I'm using Linux for the Dyndns client, so YMMV if you're running the client on a WinXP box that is a Pentium 66MHz.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Rallispec

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: ndee
So you're just getting 5IPs with your slow-a$$ connection? Then don't do it, if you want to upgrade your upload in near future to about 1 or 2MBit, hell yeah, do it.

I'm not thinking of doing this for any other reason other than having a stable, non-changing IP. I have looked into upgrading my upload speed; I'm too far away from the CO for anything other than what I have, unfortunately.

What's "CO"? Check out http://www.dyndns.org, there you can have a non-changing Hostname like http://michaeld.mine.nu or something. I think that will save you 15$ cuz nobody would remember your IP Address...

Yeah, If I wanted to host a webpage, I'd have to do that anyway. But in order to use DynDNS, it helps to have a fixed IP. DynDNS typically takes a few days (from what I've read) to change your "pointer" if your IP changes, so a static IP would help. I dunno...I prolly just flip a coin.

even without paying for a static IP.. you probably actually have one.. i mean i've never seen mine change ever.

That's a big "negative." SWBell does things a little differently...or maybe it's b/c I'm on some kind of separate branch. (I'm a little over 22,000 feet away from the Central Office (CO).

My IP will change every few hours, regardless of if I'm online or not. After a period of inactivity of a few hours, my IP will drop completely (0.0.0.0). When I try to hit a URL or check my email, I get a new IP and everything works fine.

I've put in trouble tickets with SWBell and they have insisted, numerous times that everything is fine and that's the way it works. Makes no sense to me though.

I have been using a program called FreePing for the past few weeks. I have it ping postoffice.swbell.net every 90-seconds, and I've kept the same IP for the past three weeks.

Maybe I'll just leave well enough alone for now.

 

[technogeeky]

I use HN.ORG and set it up so my domain name gets point to me.

It's pretty cool. And Free. It updates every 15 minutes.

 

[pac1085]

I dont think its worth it. I'm using my linksys router just fine. Heres what I do with my setup, 4 computers total at the moment.

Computer 1(Web Server) - 192.168.1.100 - all requests of port 80 on my cable modems ip(24.95.202.xxx) get routed here
Computer 2(FTP Server) - 192.168.1.101 - all requests on port 21 get routed here
Computer 3(Telnet Server) - 192.168.1.102 - all requests on port 23 go here...
Computer 4(reg internet user comp) - 192.168.1.103 - set up as dmz host...all other ports routed here...

keeps the network fairly secure too...

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: ICSVortex
I dont think its worth it. I'm using my linksys router just fine. Heres what I do with my setup, 4 computers total at the moment.

Computer 1(Web Server) - 192.168.1.100 - all requests of port 80 on my cable modems ip(24.95.202.xxx) get routed here
Computer 2(FTP Server) - 192.168.1.101 - all requests on port 21 get routed here
Computer 3(Telnet Server) - 192.168.1.102 - all requests on port 23 go here...
Computer 4(reg internet user comp) - 192.168.1.103 - set up as dmz host...all other ports routed here...

keeps the network fairly secure too...

You have a very nice setup! I like it. I have a router as well...I don't need more IPs, I need a stable IP, so I don't have to mess with things like FreePing and so I can have a reliable IP for my FTP server and soon to be webserver.

I know cable IPs usually don't change much..I may look into cable internet.

 

[ndee]

Well with DynDNS, the change is made in a couple seconds. I've used it a couple times. I would first take a look at DynDNS it's really a good alternative to static IPs if you're not doing a business(would look weird to have a URL like computerservices.mine.nu).