[Asterisk-Users] IPv4...NAT...etc

[Bill Jennings]

Jon Pounder (JonP at inline.net) wrote:
> At 06:08 PM 3/5/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:45:13PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
> >> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-March/008088.html
> >> "why is there such a delay in getting ipv6 rolled out when it solves 
> >all these problems ?"
> >
> >I doubt that users will stop using NAT until ISPs stop charging
> >per address for SOHO customers.
> 
> and if ipv6 made the addresses much more freely available your isp could 
> afford to dish out all you could ever want on a $20/month connection.
> 
> The ip's are not just free to the ISP, there is a cost associated with them 
> each year in addition to the bandwidth you use. Not to mention it makes 
> routing rules more complex the more ips an isp has to deal with in separate 
> groups.
> 

I think the main reason ISPs want to charge more for static IPs is that
with static IPs you can run servers.  If you run servers, you are going
to use more bandwidth (read: "expensive resources").  Ergo, they pass
the expense on to you - the BUSINESS customer.