I Totally agree. No reason for an ISP to charge for such things.
Reminds me of the days when the phone company used to charge
per phone before they were broken up.

I have a feeling that in the future, perhaps, it will be a per packet cost.
At one place I worked each Dept was charged xxx per Gigabyte of
data transfered to and from their respective segments.
Maybe this will slide into the home market someday don't know.

Cheers
-Joe Blanchard

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From:   Cutler, James R[SMTP:james.cutler@eds.com]
Sent:   Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:40 PM
To:     nanog@merit.edu
Cc:     Cutler, James R
Subject:        NAT Router for other purposes






I use a Linksys BEFSR41B to connect both my PC and my Linksys printer server
together while I am using my Internet connection.  This way I can use the
Internet and any of the three printers supported transparently with nothing
but selecting which printer I want to use.

And, since I use a company laptop as my PC, the hardware changes often.  The
Linksys insulates these changes from my ISP connection.

Oh, in addition, I never see DOS attacks against my PC or my printer server,
since the Linksys does not respond to connection attempts.

Does this mean that I am an evil person, trying to cheat the ISP?  Should I
be charged $5/month to use my printers which cannot be accessed from the ISP
connection?

I think not, and, not.

-
James R. Cutler, EDS
800 Tower Drive, Troy, MI 48098
248 265 7514  (8-3650