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hamish225

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#150441 23-Jul-2014 00:41
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Why do ISP's hand out dynamic IP addresses by default?

is it just easier?

is it just so they can get some extra money off us when we want a static one?

surely it would be easier from a administrative point of view to make sure peoples IP addresses dont change every 5 minutes?




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  #1093998 23-Jul-2014 07:43
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My guess it that it's just a relic of the dialup days. As noted above, some ISPs don't bother with dynamic addressing anymore; it doesn't really make sense with an always-on connection.

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