high speed DSL connectivity

[Ralph Doncaster]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Max Blanco wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Daniel Armstrong wrote:
>
> >
> > I have used Istop for over a year now and have been
> > happy with the service. $30/month plus $4/month for a
> > static IP, and you can use your own DSL modem.
> >
> > http://www.istop.com/status.html
> >
>
> OK.  Let's see if I get this right: ISP is charging you $48/year to change
> ONE line of .conf ONCE.  That boggles the mind.  That is the promised land
> of infinite markup.  It is cheaper for the ISP to use static IP.

Politely put, you're mistaken.
There is a quantifiable recurring cost of >US$2000/yr for a /20 (see
ARIN).
For dynamic IP customers the IP is assigned based on the ip local pool
command on our Cisco LNS.  For our static IP customers my sysadmin has to
allocate the next available IP based on the LNS the customer will
terminate.  Then the customer RADIUS record needs to be setup with that
IP.

When we got our portable /20 from ARIN there was a huge amount of work
involved in contacting all the static IP customers and informing them the
IP would change and when it would change.  For our dynamic IP customers it
was just a one-line change in our LNS.

I have considered a lower monthly price but with a one-time setup charge
for the static IPs, but $4/mth seems to be lower than any of my
competitors.

-Ralph
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