| 10 minute Internet outage and IP change So my internet randomly went out about a week ago now. Modem rebooted for no apparent reason (like it always does every so often), and then reboot cycled a few times. It stayed connected a few minutes later.
35 minutes later I found out it whacked something in my router, so I was forced to reboot it to refresh the connection and get internet access back. Half an hour of wasted time waiting for the connect to sort itself out..
Over the next few days I was getting a new login notification from a few things to which I was a bit confused. It wasn't until yesterday that I tried to login to something and it told me I was logging in from a new IP that I noticed that my IP changed.
Obviously, I can't complain, since I don't pay for a static IP service, but has anyone else had a similar thing happen to them in the last week? I'm in Morris county, if that's relevant.
IP changed from a 24. range (which was weird to begin with) to a 69. range. GeoIP now says I'm located in mid NJ, far below my actual location. Yet again something completely inaccurate, like my last IP (prior to some databases actually updating, months later). Still miss my first 68. range IP.. |
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1 edit | No change here in Westchester. What's weird about the "24" range? I'm in the "74" range and my office is in the "47" range. Cablevision has IP blocks all over the place. |
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| reply to DAOWAce
You need a better router that can handle an ip change. I exchanged my cable modem without rebooting my router. Over the years I have also had random ip changes. Never get attached to your ip.
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| reply to DAOWAce
Looks like we swopped. CT from as long as I can remember has had 67-69 range, years. As of a few months ago, all of the locations in CT I have switched 24.x ranges (at home I have a 47.x range now too). So looks like they did some reorganization with their blocks.
Guess it happens sometimes.  |
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| reply to kdshapiro
said by kdshapiro:You need a better router that can handle an ip change. I exchanged my cable modem without rebooting my router. Over the years I have also had random ip changes. Never get attached to your ip.
Cable modem change does not usually result in an IP address change. A router change, on the other hand, usually will. I think that the IP address is "bound" to the device immediately behind the cable modem. |
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| Tech exchanged arris for arris, which resulted in an ip change for whatever reason.
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 mbernsteBoostedPremium,MVM
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Piscataway, NJ | reply to DAOWAce
I'm in Piscataway on the Raritan system. The same thing happened to me a few days ago. Early in the morning (around 2:30) I lost Internet connectivity. I went into the router and refreshed the IP and my IP address changed. I didn't do a Geo IP check to see where it says I am coming from but I do know that I think something's either screwy with my DynDNS entry or I need to re-open port 80 on my router since I can't get to my internal NAS's web site via HTTP. This is just one of those things that happen from time to time when you don't have a static IP. I'm guessing with so many more people on Ultra 101 these days they have to do more node splitting and configuration changes at the head-end to keep everything stable. |
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| reply to DAOWAce
If your IP changed after a brief outage in the early hours of the morning (before 5 AM), then that was almost definitely due to a node split or moving to a new CMTS. |
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| reply to mbernste
Raritan system here. My modem rebooted twice in the evenings during the past week, but no IP change. |
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