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* In point of fact, you do get name, but that name includes the IP
address so that it is worthless.  I believe this also prevents you from
using a service like dyndns.org
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It does?  That's news to me because I was just dialed up to anther ISP
and using myvnc.com's services to get in to my appropriately firewalled
computer, albeit not on port 80 but that's ok with me.


On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:22, Voltage Spike wrote:
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> > ports. Business services allow you to run what you want. A business
> > connection isn't much more, but has a much lower downstream limit.
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CoBryce Communications
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