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Home Internet Static IP
Is it possible to get a static IP with the 5G Home Internet service? Normally I wouldn't need it but since my connection dies at least once a week I get a new IP every time my modem reboots. I work...
If you want to set a local network device to have a static IP address the best course of action is to do so with an address outside of the DHCP scope but still within the IP network. T-Mobile supports 64 clients on the network and my observation based upon the gateway IP delivery via DHCP is that the pool of dynamic addresses runs from 101-254. The gateway IP is excluded so that leaves addresses 2-100 available. If any of these are used for static addressing on the network there should never be any conflict with any client which has received dynamic IP assignment from the gateway DHCP server. It is simple to confirm if a desired IP is available for sure. Open a console and ping the IP you want to use. If you get a response it is in use. If the ping responds as unreachable it is not in use. Just use addresses in the subnet not included as part of the DHCP pool.
