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Re: IP address fee??

  • From: David Schwartz
  • Date: Thu Sep 05 23:08:35 2002 
>I think an important question would be what level of service are they
>buying.  Including 255 address with a T3 would be very reasonable, less so
>with a T1, not very reasonable with DSL, and ridiculous with a dial-up
>account.

	I must be missing something. Why would you expect need for IP addresses to 
correlate with bandwidth? I can see a company buying a DS3 for a single 
web/application server or load balancer. I can see an apartment building with 
120 network jacks getting a T1.

	It may make business sense to bundle more 'free IPs' with packages that cost 
more money. But the actual allocation must be based upon demonstrated need. 
Read your agreement with ARIN.

	DS