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Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount? From my experience this is always an option even on consumer lines.

hedora 5y ago
No. It's a local rural ISP. I don't think they're particularly competent.
c0wb0yc0d3r 5y ago
It may be an option, but as a consumer, why would this be the optimal answer? All this does is hide costs for you. This is a problem with service. If the service doesn't want to fix it, then that sounds like a potential market opportunity, no? I'm new to thinking about the business side, but it seems like I want to remove any obstacle I can preventing a customer from using my service.
- convolvatron 5y ago
  it takes a little getting used to. the key here it thats alot easier to convince your customers that any flaws in your service are just 'the way it is' rather than even attempt to do anything about them.
nobody9999 5y ago
>Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount? From my experience this is always an option even on consumer lines. Where I live (US), most ISPs won't give you static IPv4 addresses unless you are on a "business" plan. Beyond that, you also have to pay for those static IP addresses (it's ~US$25/month for 5 static IPv4 addresses, with one of those wasted because I'm forced to use the ISP's router, even though I already have one). Perhaps where you are, static IPv4 addresses are available on "consumer" plans, but here not so much.
ayushnix 5y ago
> Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount? and this is why IPv6 isn't coming anytime soon, at least not within the next few decades.
- iforgotpassword 5y ago
  Nah, it is. It just won't be this one great event where everyone switches at the same time. My current ISP ships you a cheapo router that has it enabled by default. My previous one did to and even had cgnat. It just works. You read comments here on HN every time ipv6 comes up how it caused great issues for them and they turned it off, but unless they are on a really shitty small ISP, it's their own fault because they don't use the router from the ISP but had to build their own setup and messed something up. As people switch ISPs or get replacement routers that have it enabled, the world gradually moves over, and nobody apart from the nerds takes notice.

hedora 5y ago

No. It's a local rural ISP. I don't think they're particularly competent.

c0wb0yc0d3r 5y ago

It may be an option, but as a consumer, why would this be the optimal answer? All this does is hide costs for you. This is a problem with service. If the service doesn't want to fix it, then that sounds like a potential market opportunity, no? I'm new to thinking about the business side, but it seems like I want to remove any obstacle I can preventing a customer from using my service.

convolvatron 5y ago
it takes a little getting used to. the key here it thats alot easier to convince your customers that any flaws in your service are just 'the way it is' rather than even attempt to do anything about them.

nobody9999 5y ago

>Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount? From my experience this is always an option even on consumer lines. Where I live (US), most ISPs won't give you static IPv4 addresses unless you are on a "business" plan. Beyond that, you also have to pay for those static IP addresses (it's ~US$25/month for 5 static IPv4 addresses, with one of those wasted because I'm forced to use the ISP's router, even though I already have one). Perhaps where you are, static IPv4 addresses are available on "consumer" plans, but here not so much.

ayushnix 5y ago

> Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount? and this is why IPv6 isn't coming anytime soon, at least not within the next few decades.

iforgotpassword 5y ago
Nah, it is. It just won't be this one great event where everyone switches at the same time. My current ISP ships you a cheapo router that has it enabled by default. My previous one did to and even had cgnat. It just works. You read comments here on HN every time ipv6 comes up how it caused great issues for them and they turned it off, but unless they are on a really shitty small ISP, it's their own fault because they don't use the router from the ISP but had to build their own setup and messed something up. As people switch ISPs or get replacement routers that have it enabled, the world gradually moves over, and nobody apart from the nerds takes notice.