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Modems and static IP addresses
I was informed by my MSP (Sparklight) that if I want to use static IP addresses with my business subscription, that I have to use one of their devices... which are router/firewall/WAP/modem devices: ...
Something to ask them about. However ISPs I presume are in the business to make money as well. ISP along with other tech service companies are well known for nickel and diming customers. I.e. Cell phone service companies. Anything they can legally get away with, they seem to scrape what they can from us customers.
Thankfully my cell phone provider (Verizon) charges me a flat-rate of $30/mo per line. Maybe there's a lesson there...
And my [small] business service from Sparklight isn't cheap: $193/mo with 5 static IPs, for 300/50mbs service (during the day more like 180/20mbs).
4 miles away I was getting 100/100mbs G.PON for $60/mo. That was a bargain.
As I said, I asked my MSP about the limitation on modems and it was word salad. See the original posting. Their reasoning ran counter to current best practices in network security.
"Something-something more secure" but what they really meant was, "because we say so."
It's not more secure, very much the opposite.
And you have you answers. It's there show.
FURRYe38 wrote:And you have you answers. It's there show.
Fortunately, it's not that simple. There's federal telecommunications regulations, Telcordia and CableLabs TR's, and common carrier agreements... They can't just do things arbitrarily.
Maybe however that's all at the ISP level. Nothing we can do here.