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Is anyone else having problems with a changing IP address?
I've had the Home Internet service for 3 months now and I'm generally happy with it, but one thing is rather annoying. The external IP address that gets assigned to my gateway keeps changing. This ha...
rid wrote:This is causing me not to be able to log into my banks that use Netteller becasue the IP is changing mid login. Netteller thinks its a redirect hack. Really annoying. I have to call tmobile to have the reset everything every time, then it works for a week, then stops. Going to have to change provider.
Who was your previous ISP? did you have a static IP address? Ordinarily this is something you pay a bit extra for. The norm is dynamic IP, it will change unpredictably. You need a static IP if you are running your own webserver for example, that's how the outside world can find you (the DNS system will map your domain name to that static IP).
But for day to day internet use I’ve never heard of people needing a static IP address, most home internet plans are by default dynamic IP no matter who the vendor is, Comcast, TMobile, CenturyLink...
The outside world isn’t calling in to you, you call out to external sites and services and for that we use username/password etc to gain access to them.
