Modem connected WWW-server

The effect of using a WWW server which is installed on a machine with a modem connection is that no others can, in practice, use the web server from the Internet:

• Connection to the Internet is always initiated from the modem side. The reason for this is that the Internet provider has no interest in paying for the connection - so the modemuser side must set up the connection.
• When connected - there is a theoretical possibility for other computers on the Internet to access a www-server on the modem computer. But - since the modem computer probably will receive different IP-numbers for each connection, there is no way the possible users can know what IP-number to use.

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