 laprjnsPremium
join:2002-03-11
Ellington, CT | How Offten does Uverse Ip Change? ATT Uverse Sale rep was over my house last night trying to sell me Uverse and he said that the IP changes every hour for security reasons. Can this be true? |
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| Probably for DSL customers. For Uverse the IP seems to hang around for a while. It usually only changes if you get a new modem/RG or they push you a new IP. But UVerse IPs usually stick around for a while. |
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I've had UVerse VDSL since March 2011 and my IP has never changed.
My AT&T ADSL IP changed every time the DSL modem was rebooted. But certainly not every hour. More like once every few months when I manually rebooted the modem, although it would reboot itself sometimes. |
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The rep who told you that meant well, and you should not have any security concerns about your IP address being attacked. He is a bit misinformed. As a Uverse customer, your residential gateway will have a one "dynamic" IP address (it won't be registered to your name and ATT has the option of assigning you a different one). That IP address will more than likely always stay the same for a long as you have the service at that location. |
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Xsk8er
join:2001-01-02
Columbus, OH | reply to laprjns
I've had UVerse VDSL since Oct 2009 and I haven't had the IP change yet. |
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| I have had U-verse for 1 year and had 5 IPs but it's because I forced it.
Sometimes when I do a factory reset I get a new IP or if you look at when the lease will expire in the router diags and turn the modem off so it's off when it expires odds are you will get a different one when you power back on later due to it assigning that one to someone else.
If you don't do anything, odds are the IP will stay the same as unless I do one of the above two things it stays the same... |
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 nwrickertsand groperPremium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
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said by laprjns:ATT Uverse Sale rep was over my house last night trying to sell me Uverse and he said that the IP changes every hour for security reasons. Can this be true?
Yes, this is true. Or, more precisely, it is a true demonstration of the complete ignorance of AT&T salespeople, and/or of their tendency to make stuff up as they go along.
I still have the same IP as when service was initiated over 2 years ago.
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I aways turn my modem off overnight. So far, my U-verse IP has not changed. I didn't pay too much attention to my previous DSL IP, but it didn't seem to change very often either. |
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laprjnsPremium
join:2002-03-11
Ellington, CT | reply to laprjns
Thanks all. There were actually two reps, a District Manager and a new sales rep. They were not actual AT&T employees (although they had all the AT&T logo clothing), but from a contracted sales force. It was the new guy that told me the IP change every hour. I told him that I didn't think that was right and he started to back off saying maybe once a day. Anyway in the end I signed up and soon will be switching from Comcast to U-verse for TV, Telephone and Internet. |
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| said by laprjns:Anyway in the end I signed up and soon will be switching from Comcast to U-verse for TV, Telephone and Internet.
Make sure you read the terms and go over the order confirmation with a fine-toothed comb. Contract sales reps can promise you anything and it's nonbinding. |
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If you have a 2wire/Pace 3600, 3800, 3801 and iNid all on VDSL, the IP address generally will not change, even though ATT says it's dynamic (mine's been the same for more than 3 1/2 years).
All other modems (ADSL, ADSL 2/2+) will most likely will get a different dynamic IP address on reboots or power off/power on situations. 
Chris
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