> Is it NAT keeping everyone suppressed behind dynamic translation or > is it more that 80% of the people on the net are just consuming media > and since they don't clamor for equal "real" IP access, the ISPs > simply don't care about that.
A bit from column A, a bit from column B, I would say. >> This is why I pay in excess of $300/month for a T1 line and a /27, >> as well as ADSL with a /28 (from a local provider that doesn't care >> if I run "servers" or not). > I'd do the same thing if I wasn't such a tightwad or didn't have > friends that did as you do who let me host with them. It's > definitely very sub-optimal and expensive for no good reason. And I spend over $80/month for DSL to a provider that gives me a /29 and a /60 from globally routed space. (That everything is now CIDR blocks is another loss; I am not fond of the desupporting of noncontiguous subnet masks, even though I can understand it - I'm the only person I've ever heard of running that way other than for testing.) A small local provider, but still. > Thanks for that post. Very cathartic. Glad I'm not the only one. :-) No, no, you aren't the only one. Even most of what I cut I agree with; it just didn't seem to call for a response. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
