| What is NAT/No-NAT? |
| NAT (Network Address Translation) is a technology that allows you to share a single IP address assigned by a ISP among a number of computers on a LAN. Most ADSL hardware supports NAT out of the box. NO-NAT means that instead of having a single IP address to share you get a subnet of 4, 8 or 16 IP's that are routable and can be assigned to your computers. Please note that because a subnet is assigned it means you do not have access to all the 8 or 16 IP addresses. On a 4 IP connection 1 IP address is available to you and on a 8 IP connection 5 IP addresses are available to you and on a 16 IP connection 13 IP addresses are available. This is because an IP is reserved for the network address, broadcast address and router respectively. |
