Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <49FB4661.8090503 () west net>, Jay Hennigan writes:
> > LEdouard Louis wrote:
> > > Optimum Online business only offer 5 static IP address.
> > >
> > > Where can I buy a block of Internet IP address for Business? How much
> > > does it cost?
> > Only five?  Really?  Our basic residential users get 18 quintillion 
> > addresses, and business users get 65536 times that many.  Tell them you 
> > need a few more.  :-)
>
>       Actually residential users do.  One /64 is not enough.  On
>       can argue about whether a /56 or a /48 is appropriate for
>       residential users but a single /64 isn't and residential
>       ISP's should be planning to hand out more than a single /64
>       to their customers.
>  

I hear this a lot, but how many "linksys default channel 6" end users
really have more than one subnet, or even know what a subnet is?

~Seth