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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 from home and whenever my IP changes I have to update some of my clients' firewalls.
jlillard wrote:
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 from home and whenever my IP changes I have to update some of my clients' firewalls.
From what I can tell you could just sign up for T-Mobile Internet for Business. You would be issued slightly different equipment that would allow for a static IP address. I think the charge is 15 per month additional on top of the 55 per month for the service. They also have equipment options that provide "bridged" or passthrough options so you can use your very own router/firewall without the dreaded double nat! Talk with a T-Mobile business rep and just say you are a freelancer/entreprenure if they ask about you being a business or not. :)
Me too. I have 5 fixed IP's on my current internet service. I would not switch to T-Mobile unless I could get 2. I realise they cost money and I pay for mine now.
ghostlee13 wrote:
There's no way to configure a static IP on the gateway.
There is a work around, Home internet subscribers should not have to spend an additional $18.00 dollar's a month for a business account, there are no additional cost to T-mobile to provide me with a dynamic or Static IP address. I am not running a business.
Scott Green wrote:
ghostlee13 wrote:
There's no way to configure a static IP on the gateway.
There is a work around, Home internet subscribers should not have to spend an additional $18.00 dollar's a month for a business account, there are no additional cost to T-mobile to provide me with a dynamic or Static IP address. I am not running a business.
I tried to get a home business account it I had ro prove I was a business. And I would lose some discounts because I was a business. No, gracias
I got a better one. My MLB.TV account (paid for by Tmobile) needs an IP that specifies my location. Up until this year everything worked fine. This year my IP has my location as various suburbs of Los Angeles, whereas I'm physically just north of San Diego. I have to call MLB.TV once a week to get it changed so LA isn't blacked out. Tmobile tells me there's nothing they can do. Am I the only one experiencing this?
