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ATM?

Yeah, asynchronous transfer mode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode

Right, but there isn't any ATM involved in the WBC GEA FTTC products - It is generic ethernet access. Hence the PPPoE, and not PPPoA nor PPPoEoA.

Ok fair cop, but you still wouldn't be able to obtain more than one IP unless the ISP specifically configures the subscribers connection for multiple static IP addresses.

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Ok fair cop, but you still wouldn't be able to obtain more than one IP unless the ISP specifically configures the subscribers connection for multiple static IP addresses.

Unless it was a dynamic IP, like O2 and BT

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In reply to a post by izools:

Ok fair cop, but you still wouldn't be able to obtain more than one IP unless the ISP specifically configures the subscribers connection for multiple static IP addresses.

Unless it was a dynamic IP, like O2 and BT

No ISP assigns multiple dynamic IPs to a single end user NTE.

Like I say, the only way for it to work would be if the ISP sets up the subscriber with multiple static IPs.

ISPs that give the subscriber a dynamic IP don't assign more than one IP to the residential gateway. They have 100% control over what / how many IPs the EU gets and no change of modem / router / other such configuration at the EU premises can change this.

Having had experience configuring SME routers at the ISP end and configuring IP assignments to subscribers as a profession for several years you can trust me on this

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you can trust me on this

Except the original post in this thread says otherwise.

Deliberate, or a mistake, we cannot tell. But it looks to have happened.

No ISP assigns multiple dynamic IPs to a single end user NTE.

It does seem to work for me.

I only found it by accident - I had a Netgear router configured in 'modem only' mode with a Linksys router for many years and then one day I connected a laptop to another port on the Netgear to get into the web interface and it pulled another external IP.

I could use both connections independently - each with their own external IP.

Obviously the available bandwidth was split between the 2 connections and you don't gain anything there so it's not like a separate connection in that way.

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In reply to a post by WWWombat:

In reply to a post by izools:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

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ATM?

Yeah, asynchronous transfer mode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode

Right, but there isn't any ATM involved in the WBC GEA FTTC products - It is generic ethernet access. Hence the PPPoE, and not PPPoA nor PPPoEoA.

Only just returned to this thread since my "ATM?" post. Thanks for explaining to them why I queried it .