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Why would someone want Multiple Public IPs (not static) posted: Jun 5, 2009 4:39 AM

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dhkid
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Jun 5, 2009

At my home my ISP provides me with a public IP (obviously).

My ISP also sells an option of purchasing an addittional 4 public IPs (NOT STATIC) for additional $10/mo.

I wanted to throw a general question out ther: Why would an individual / family at home (personal usage not comemrcial) want more than one public IP? Keep in mind i am not talking about Satic IPs... Multiple dynamic IPs. What are the uses that couldn't just be solved with a simple cheapo router?

Thanks

DH

Tags: multiple, ips, nat, static, public, private, router

Re: Why would someone want Multiple Public IPs (not static)

1. Jun 7, 2009 7:13 PM in response to: dhkid
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jffgrnfld
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Oct 3, 2006
Multiple IPs would allow games or applications that need port forwarding to be run on multiple machines simultaneously. Not common anymore, but before a lot of games or applications became "NAT friendly" - it would require specific open ports, and with only 1 external IP, you'd only be able to run one instance of the application at a time.

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