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qasdfdsaq · 14-01-2013, 17:23

ISPs in some countries run NAT as standard and charge extra for an external IP. That said on the link given only says "Valid IP addresses" begin with the above.

VM certainly do not own every IP address beginning with that number. 62.80.81.123 (actually all of 62.80.80.0 - 62.80.95.255) for example, is owned by BT Prague and 80.40.0.0 - 80.47.255.255 is owned by Tiscali. 213.45.0.0 to 213.45.255.255 is owned by Telecom Italia. 81.45.6.0 - 81.45.13.255 is Telefonica Spain. 82.224.8.0 - 82.224.9.255 is Proxad France. Then again, my old VM connection had an 92.232.0.0/13 IP and that's not even in the list at all.

In fact, just picking at random out of the above ranges, I'm yet to come across a single one that *is* owned by VM. Statistically that would suggest VM own less than 20% of them. VM's routing servers only announce a total of 9,883,392 IPs across all ranges. That includes all their own infrastructure and all services/IPs they provide for other businesses, as well as all companies that connect through VM, so not all are available to consumer broadband.

14-01-2013, 17:23	#14
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: VM IPv6 plans? ISPs in some countries run NAT as standard and charge extra for an external IP. That said on the link given only says "Valid IP addresses" begin with the above. VM certainly do not own every IP address beginning with that number. 62.80.81.123 (actually all of 62.80.80.0 - 62.80.95.255) for example, is owned by BT Prague and 80.40.0.0 - 80.47.255.255 is owned by Tiscali. 213.45.0.0 to 213.45.255.255 is owned by Telecom Italia. 81.45.6.0 - 81.45.13.255 is Telefonica Spain. 82.224.8.0 - 82.224.9.255 is Proxad France. Then again, my old VM connection had an 92.232.0.0/13 IP and that's not even in the list at all. In fact, just picking at random out of the above ranges, I'm yet to come across a single one that is owned by VM. Statistically that would suggest VM own less than 20% of them. VM's routing servers only announce a total of 9,883,392 IPs across all ranges. That includes all their own infrastructure and all services/IPs they provide for other businesses, as well as all companies that connect through VM, so not all are available to consumer broadband.