From a networking standpoint, they're both similar, and neither choice indicates with certainty whether you, say, have a static IP or use DHCP.

Liability can be minimized by setting the computer to a static IP, instead of using DHCP.

And he was talking about it from a standpoint of creating a static IP, that is, it was static and never changing and not his.

And it's further assured because they talk about registering and paying $10 a month to receive a static IP.

We'll give you a static IP, and then you can run an email server.

LEO: That's the static IP we were talking about.

The very, very first DSL just used static IP address assignment.

However, most people do not use static IP addressing.

When you turn it on, since you've set it to have a static IP, it doesn't ask the router for an IP.

OK, maybe that's nice for static IP's, but what about DHCP?