<DIV>A colleague of mine requested it once with Rogers as a business need and got a static IP reserved. Not sure if you can still request this. It's not really a big deal to setup for them on DHCP assigned Static IPs.<BR><BR><B><I>Karim Yaghmour <karim-vatZMuOh6OJBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Robert Brockway wrote:<BR>> I've never come across any cable connections anywhere in the world that <BR>> offer a static address. This is not a technical limitation since it is <BR>> trivial to make a DHCP reservation permanent. It seems to be a cultural <BR>> aspect of the use of cable.<BR><BR>In Quebec, Videotron will give out static IPs on business accounts.<BR><BR>For their "Extreme high-speed" and 5 static IPs on a 12-month contract<BR>it comes down to 199$/month+tx. They lend you a Cisco SoHo router for<BR>the static IPs.<BR><BR>For some reason or another, though, there's no mention anywhere on their<BR>site regarding the availability of the 5 static IPs and related fees:<BR>http://www.videotron.com/services/en/affaires/4.jsp<BR><BR>Karim<BR>-- <BR>Author, Speaker, D
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