Milkster
Whitby, Ontario
join:2003-02-12
Whitby, ON
1 edit | Dynamic IPs
How often do you get a new IP on the regular teksavvy residential service? Is it everytime the modem loses a connection and has to reconnect?
I'm asking because I visit a website that i have to login and it asks for my username and password everytime the IP changes (some security feature) and i've noticed that it asks me to do this very often. |
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zinc
Premium
join:2004-02-17
Woodbridge, ON
clubs: | It's everytime the modem loses a connection. On a clean/proper line, this shouldn't happen very often, it isn't unheard of to have people who've had the same IPs for months. |
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BellVictim
Premium
join:2006-04-17
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said by Milkster  :How often do you get a new IP on the regular teksavvy residential service? Is it everytime the modem loses a connection and has to reconnect? Yes, and AIUI, only at those times.
(In actual fact it's at the time of *PPPoE* dis/connect - your modem can stay attached - the sync stays up - but you can still have a PPPoE re/connect. This can happen if you adjust settings {even those not related to PPPoE, for example DHCP address space} on your off-the-shelf router, and it follows up that change with a full reset).
(I had a crappy ISP once, GoSonic if you must know, who would cause every user's PPPoE session to disconnect and reconnect, once per 24 hrs, causing not only a new IP addy {no big deal for me} but *disconnecting* whatever transfer I was in the middle of, or listening to online radio, or whatever. When confronted they first said that it was DHCP renewal {lie #1} and 2) it was for my own security {lie #2}. I think they used Bell's discarded tech support reps :/ |
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