Common ISP Features & Services


About 50%/50% split between Static & Dynamic IP addressing

Many ISPs are filtering the connectivity to users for a mixture of security and performance reasons
"Always on" connectivity makes security more critical
Users to run their own web servers makes content liability a concern
Bandwidth is max 256kbit/s making it slow for popular sites

Some ISPs are adding NAT to "non-NAT" services

Some ISPs are imposing bandwidth limits

Some ISPs are using compulsory caching to reduce bandwidth costs (has useful side affect of speeding up access significantly)