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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I Totally agree. No reason for an ISP to charge for such things. </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reminds me of the days when the phone company used to charge</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">per phone before they were broken up. </FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a feeling that in the future, perhaps, it will be a per packet cost. </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">At one place I worked each Dept was charged xxx per Gigabyte of </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">data transfered to and from their respective segments.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Maybe this will slide into the home market someday don't know. </FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-Joe Blanchard</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">From:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">Cutler, James R[SMTP:james.cutler@eds.com]</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">Sent:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:40 PM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">To:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">nanog@merit.edu</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">Cc:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">Cutler, James R</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">Subject:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="MS Sans Serif">NAT Router for other purposes</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I use a Linksys BEFSR41B to connect both my PC and my Linksys printer server</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">together while I am using my Internet connection. This way I can use the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Internet and any of the three printers supported transparently with nothing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but selecting which printer I want to use.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And, since I use a company laptop as my PC, the hardware changes often. The</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Linksys insulates these changes from my ISP connection.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oh, in addition, I never see DOS attacks against my PC or my printer server,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">since the Linksys does not respond to connection attempts.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Does this mean that I am an evil person, trying to cheat the ISP? Should I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">be charged $5/month to use my printers which cannot be accessed from the ISP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">connection?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I think not, and, not.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">James R. Cutler, EDS</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">800 Tower Drive, Troy, MI 48098</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">248 265 7514 (8-3650</FONT>
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