recently i found myself in a situation where ISP was providing a static IP adresses, but not routable IP addresses. Basically if ISP uses a WAN and has NAT enabled on their servers, even if they give you static IP, it doesn't necessarily mean it can be accessible from the internet. Dunno does that happen in US, since I live in Europe and here things like that are very common (especially with small, local ISPs and WiFi point to point connections)
@elithecomputerguy my best guess is that it allows ISP to use "Static IP" in their marketing campaigns but at the same time, use one static IP for couple of their clients and save costs. That way, in order to have a home web server you have to pay 10$ for static ip + another 10$ for publicly visible IP only for you. In this manner static IP doesn't really give much, only that you will always be visible on the web as same person...Its worth knowing because its becoming a common strategy...
the idea is the static ip point to your router but when it get to the router it does not know were to go
so you have to configure the NAT in your router
for example if your web server ip is 192.168.1.100 then you have to tell you router to forward the coming connections on port 80 to the ip 192.168.1.100 this way it will find your web server
@algnadjib i realize what port forwarding is, but as i said, ISP has router in his base routing from 208.x.x.x to 10.x.x.x, and i, as a customer, am given a static ip of 10.x.x.x (+ dns servers etc) that i shall put in my small, wifi router at home, which then routes that 10.x.x.x to 192.x.x.x in my subnet.There are pros and cons of that, for example security is built in, no way hackers can directly scan your machine, but you have no control whatsoever, unless you pay extra 5$ every month
Great info.Why do you think companies block ports especially when/if a usb is inserted into the network computer.For instance in a buisness if an employee wants to play music or whatever and if they use their own usb thumbdrive but then it locks that port.I assume this would be for security reasons right?
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algnadjib 4 months ago
recently i found myself in a situation where ISP was providing a static IP adresses, but not routable IP addresses. Basically if ISP uses a WAN and has NAT enabled on their servers, even if they give you static IP, it doesn't necessarily mean it can be accessible from the internet. Dunno does that happen in US, since I live in Europe and here things like that are very common (especially with small, local ISPs and WiFi point to point connections)
immuneDay 6 months ago
@immuneDay I've never even heard of the before..?
elithecomputerguy 6 months ago
@elithecomputerguy my best guess is that it allows ISP to use "Static IP" in their marketing campaigns but at the same time, use one static IP for couple of their clients and save costs. That way, in order to have a home web server you have to pay 10$ for static ip + another 10$ for publicly visible IP only for you. In this manner static IP doesn't really give much, only that you will always be visible on the web as same person...Its worth knowing because its becoming a common strategy...
immuneDay 6 months ago
@immuneDay if i understand you problem
the idea is the static ip point to your router but when it get to the router it does not know were to go
so you have to configure the NAT in your router
for example if your web server ip is 192.168.1.100 then you have to tell you router to forward the coming connections on port 80 to the ip 192.168.1.100 this way it will find your web server
algnadjib 4 months ago
@algnadjib i realize what port forwarding is, but as i said, ISP has router in his base routing from 208.x.x.x to 10.x.x.x, and i, as a customer, am given a static ip of 10.x.x.x (+ dns servers etc) that i shall put in my small, wifi router at home, which then routes that 10.x.x.x to 192.x.x.x in my subnet.There are pros and cons of that, for example security is built in, no way hackers can directly scan your machine, but you have no control whatsoever, unless you pay extra 5$ every month
immuneDay 4 months ago
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immuneDay 6 months ago
Great info.Why do you think companies block ports especially when/if a usb is inserted into the network computer.For instance in a buisness if an employee wants to play music or whatever and if they use their own usb thumbdrive but then it locks that port.I assume this would be for security reasons right?
219garyind 7 months ago
@219garyind yes and also to cut down on virus infection getting into the network
tczblood 7 months ago
@tczblood yeah that's true,good info thanks
219garyind 4 weeks ago
thank you so much.you are the best instructer on youtube.
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