RE: DSL Firewall Question (was List turnaround speed)

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quazy wrote:

Well you could have one at home but there is less need, because every time
you connect you get a new IP address and then you are not on for very
long.  Making it harder for someone to get into you computer.

With DSL you are connected all the time and have the same IP address all of
the time.

Carl:
This is not always true, it depends on the DSL provider.
cjg

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