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Re: Servers with Dynamic IPs



On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:46:36 +0200, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:56:09PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> 
> > I've always assumed that dynamic IPs implies low reliability, low
> > bandwidth, and high latency. Am I wrong?
> 
> Not all hosts are created equal. There should be a trust metric, and a
> performance metric. Dialup is next to useless, but some DSL can push half a
> megabit.

Dialup isnt useless for other dialup users. See my comment about that
in the other dynamic ips thread.

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