On 16 Mar 2004 13:14:35 -0800, (N. Thornton) wrote:

Andy Hall wrote in message news:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:53:00 -0000, "IMM" wrote:
"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
In article , News writes


you're both posting from the same computer:

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.


Dialuppers routinely get dynamic IPs, and a significant percentage of
broadbanders do as well, contrary to popular opinion.

It's not really an issue of opinion, but one of what is in the
agreement between the customer and the ISP.

If the agreement indicates that the address given is static, then it
is associated with that customer, whether the connectivity is dialup
or "broadband".



Some broadbands
cut the user off for a few minutes at whatever a.m. each day, and they
come back on with often another IP address. Bear in mind what passes
for broadband now is sometimes just shared 150k, and not necessarily
always on.

Few of the services currently being marketed as "broadband" really are
broadband in the true sense of the word.



The version of IE mentioned, I dont know the numbers, but it may well
be a very widespread one, such as bundled with a version of Windows.

In short, there's no proof that the post was IMM's. Just a
probability.

Mmmm....


..andy

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