Is anyone else having problems with a changing IP address?

Joe in Detroit wrote:

There's an easy way to fix this. Unplug the gateway, then tap the reset port on the back with a push pin or paper clip. Slide the power switch off then on for good measure. When the top 3 lights are out and the front light is reddish, plug the power back in. When all the lights are green, the gateway should be reoriented to your local area.

All it generally takes to change IP is a reboot.  Still on the LTE box, which takes a little while to fully come back online.  If by chance it isn't down long enough to trigger an IP swap, doing a full power down usually does the trick as that cycle takes a bit longer.

The point is that we are on a system that behaves kinda like a cheap/free VPN service (shared/dynamic IP's with short lease times) and sometimes we will get shot off into left field trying to get us online.

It appears the off-the-wall locations usually happen when congestion has ramped up where we were previously tunneled through.  For me here in Sputh Carolina, it tends mostly to swap between Charlotte and Atlanta... occasionally I might get shunted to Miami or somewhere out west though.

When those further out locations crop up, bandwidth REALLY tanks from the congestion.  Usually take that as a sign to just go do something else for about an hour, then power cycle the modem and hope things clear up.