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**Cellus** · 12-14-2007, 10:20 PM

One important thing to note is that it costs more money to have additional public addresses. Setting up the port forwarding necessary and setting up RDP to use other ports is far cheaper than having to spend money on getting additional public IP address. If her current plan with her ISP already has additional public IP addresses then that really isn't a problem, but if it doesn't there is no need to spend more money when it can be setup relatively painlessly. The same can be said for static public IP addresses, which are more expensive than dynamic public IP addresses.

All of it can be set up on one dynamic public IP address, which saves a lot of money. While it takes more effort to set up compared to several static public IP addresses, the effort spent will cost $0 additional dollars instead of several tens of dollars every month. This is done through Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS.

You can use several static public IP addresses (it'll work), but it'll cost a lot more. And setting up Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS should work on any modern Home/SOHO budget router.

12-14-2007, 10:20 PM	#6 (permalink)
Cellus Moderator Networking Team Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,633 OS: Windows Vista Business SP1, Windows XP Professional SP3 My System	Re: Router config with 4 static assigned external addresses One important thing to note is that it costs more money to have additional public addresses. Setting up the port forwarding necessary and setting up RDP to use other ports is far cheaper than having to spend money on getting additional public IP address. If her current plan with her ISP already has additional public IP addresses then that really isn't a problem, but if it doesn't there is no need to spend more money when it can be setup relatively painlessly. The same can be said for static public IP addresses, which are more expensive than dynamic public IP addresses. All of it can be set up on one dynamic public IP address, which saves a lot of money. While it takes more effort to set up compared to several static public IP addresses, the effort spent will cost $0 additional dollars instead of several tens of dollars every month. This is done through Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS. You can use several static public IP addresses (it'll work), but it'll cost a lot more. And setting up Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS should work on any modern Home/SOHO budget router. __________________ TSF Networking Team HijackThis 5 Step Process Donate! Last edited by Cellus : 12-14-2007 at 10:26 PM.