Interesting thing about IP addresses…

The interesting thing about IP addresses is that if your office or section has already been assigned your allotted number of them, then it is tricky to get the new person in the office access to the Internet. There is an intern in my office for the summer and the office to which she was assigned needed a computer (just the tower) and Internet connection. A rebuilt computer was installed in her office and then came the Jenga game process of determining which IP addresses in the office were in use and which ones were not. Ed (the IT guy) did this and I observed. He gave the intern an address previously assigned to one of the faculty members who rarely comes into the office and who doesn’t have a computer or much of anything else in his office.

In class we talked about static and dynamic IP addresses. As I understand it the set amount of IP addresses allotted to our office are static IP addresses. I assume that the reason our office has a set amount of IP addresses is money. So, that leads to me to question…how much does an individual static IP address cost?