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JoshTriplett
on Nov 1, 2015
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How a group of neighbors created their own Interne...
> Now that ARIN's run dry, it's gotten more difficult to start a proper ISP.
Only if you want
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IPv4 addresses. And even then, they aren't impossible to come by.
p1mrx
on Nov 1, 2015
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Dynamic addressing only helps if the maximum number of simultaneous users is significantly less than the total number of subscribers. When you're connecting houses, that's generally not the case.
JoshTriplett
on Nov 2, 2015
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You don't need to hand out routable IPs at all. NAT should support roughly 64k simultaneous connections (not users) per IP.
p1mrx
on Nov 2, 2015
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The Web is not the Internet. If customers have no means to receive unsolicited packets, then you're not really an Internet service provider.
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Only if you want static IPv4 addresses. And even then, they aren't impossible to come by.