"RichardS" noaccess@invalid wrote in message
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"IMM" wrote in message
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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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Your ignorance of computing abounds. IP address are dynamic and that
of
the
local ISP, not individual machines. So many people could have the
same
IP
address at many times. Duh!

Not actually true.

ISPs with dial up users will typically, but not necessarily have a
dynamic address pool for those users. They may also assign dynamic
addresses for the cheaper DSL packages.

I can appreciate that that is possibly what you have.

The more expensive "broadband" packages allocate the customer one
static IP address and may on request provide a larger block if needed.

No ISP allocates one IP address to one individual user, unless it is a
large
user. IP addresses are scarce, very scare. One of the big problems of
TC/IP
is that the addressing stinks, although this is being worked on.

Utter bollox.

I've got an allocation of 13 static addresses.

You would have to give a reason and request them.