Now that relatively high-bandwidth Internet connections are becoming both commonplace and inexpensive, cable modem and DSL users wanting to put more than one computer on the Internet find that their Internet service provider will not allow them to do so. . . .
Now that relatively high-bandwidth Internet connections are becoming both commonplace and inexpensive, cable modem and DSL users wanting to put more than one computer on the Internet find that their Internet service provider will not allow them to do so. Typically, an ISP will grant a user a single, dynamically-allocated IP address to be used by only one computer at the user's home, in order to conserve their precious pool of IP addresses.

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