On 20 Dec 2004, at 12:44 PM, Richard Parry wrote:

> The killer app for me is, because of some of the things I do at work,
> having access to my machine at home from around and about. With
> Paradise/TelstraClear, this has previously been quite an easy problem
> to solve as I have a static IP. On the surface of it, it's easy
> enough to solve with DSL as well - grab a DynDNS.org hostname,
> configure up your ADSL router to update this, and you're away.

In my experience xtra are the only ISP who do not like giving static
IP's to home users.
Its not a problem with any other ISP in fact with most other ISP's
provide it as a part of the DSL plan.
I'm with orcon and it's free.

Bart Hanson

bart@orcon.net.nz

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