| [HSI] Static IP possible for residential service? I'd have posted in the direct forum but it seems Charter killed that...to bad, service via that was awesome.
I'm wondering if Charter offers the ability to add a static IP to residential HSI service. The website offers no information on this (or any other technical details for that matter). I realize that this is possible when you order business service but I do not require that kind of bandwidth or uptime guarantees.
I'm in the STL market if that matters. |
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| They're only available for business customers. If you don't want the higher priority service, better support, and no caps that come with business service, you could always look at dynamic DNS (it's free).
I think they're running a 30x4 business package with a static IP for around $70 a month ($60 for the internet +$10 for the static). Lower prices for bundled service. |
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| reply to ryleyinstl
Agreed. It really isn't necessary to have a static IP, thanks to the free dynamic dns services out there.
And Charter's dynamic IP's don't hardly ever change anyway. |
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| I agree that the static isn't strictly necessary. No argument there. I was just hoping to easily add one to K.I.S.S. as it were.
Thanks for the 411 |
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| said by ryleyinstl:I agree that the static isn't strictly necessary. No argument there. I was just hoping to easily add one to K.I.S.S. as it were.
Thanks for the 411
Why are you looking for a static IP anyway ? There really is no advantage to having one, if you not running a server.
Though, charter don't allow people to run servers anyway, on a residential account. |
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| No server per say; I picked up Synology NAS that allows me to do a million things and I just thought I'd skip the dynamic DNS business if I could. Especially if it only cost me an extra $10 bucks/month more....Charter's loss I guess. |
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| reply to ryleyinstl
I've had the EXACT same IP address for as long as I've had Charter internet. I don't pay for a static ip either. |
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| reply to ryleyinstl
Probably easier for people to type in »ryleyinstl.dyndns.org to access the NAS than type in an ip address. |
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 dks7
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Omak, WA | reply to ryleyinstl
Some people like myself get lucky and even if my modem is turned off for a week, still manages to pull the same ip. I have had the same IP for probably 2 years, funny how that works. My guess is because I live in a small town they have more ips than they need so my lease never expires. |
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| reply to ryleyinstl
Re: meh Dynamic DNS from Synology is already in Disk Station Manager.
Synology NAS is one of the best purchases of gear I have ever made by far. Rock solid for years. I have never had an issue even with beta DSM releases. I'm sure you will love it.
DS409+ |
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Re: [HSI] Static IP possible for residential service? me too. weird, eh? I can even reset the modem to factory defaults and STILL get the same IP.
said by dks7:Some people like myself get lucky and even if my modem is turned off for a week, still manages to pull the same ip. I have had the same IP for probably 2 years, funny how that works. My guess is because I live in a small town they have more ips than they need so my lease never expires.
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| said by compuguybna:me too. weird, eh? I can even reset the modem to factory defaults and STILL get the same IP.
said by dks7:Some people like myself get lucky and even if my modem is turned off for a week, still manages to pull the same ip. I have had the same IP for probably 2 years, funny how that works. My guess is because I live in a small town they have more ips than they need so my lease never expires.
I get a new IP about once every month, during the 2am maintenance reboots that happen. You used to be able to get a static IP on a residential account for an extra $5 per month, but that option was axed early in 2012, and was moved to business class service alone. |
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The IP address seems to be tied the MAC address that charter sees upon connection.
I can change the MAC address in the router and when I reboot, new IP. I can even switch back to the default MAC ion the router and the original IP comes back if it hasn't been taken by someone else first. |
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| Yes, the IP will be tied to the MAC of the CPE attached to the modem. The RFC for DHCP is more involved then the process of get a lease, lease expires then lease renews.
At half the time of the initial lease, the client will send a unicast message back to the server it received the lease from. If it does not receive a response, it will continue to send the unicast message at regular intervals. If the client receives a response then the lease is renewed, if not the client will stop and then send a broadcast back out to the local network indicating that it holds the IP and looking to renew it's lease. Google RFC2131 for ALL the fun details 
Most DHCP servers from a service providers perspective have the ability to limit the amount of CPE/IPs available to a modem. (In some cases 2 or 3) When I say this, the DHCP server is aware of the configuration held by the modem when it is provisioned on the providers back end. It will see the modem and CPE in the client tables and or IP allocation table. This supports your experiment of changing the MAC of the CPE attached. Hope this little bit info of helps...If you needed it  |
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