Public IP Changes

I found some information, if it is accurate which sounds plausible, that suggest they will be using carrier grade port forwarding so probably not going to get a static public IP, but in the blog, "Home Internet Port Forwarding working in 2021?" the use of a VPN does appear to be a viable work around. I know there is overhead and additional costs but using a VPN is probably the only viable answer. Just look for the conversation and you can see the response. It is from 4 months ago but well it seems to be on target for a way to resolve the public IP flip.

Currently Pure VPN has a 80% discount on a three year VPN offer which brings it down to $2.22 per month. No I don't have any affiliation with Pure VPN just seems like a solution that would provide you with what you want. I am just a retired network escalation engineer with bits in my brain still.

OK so you add the dedicated IP and it tends to get a bit more expensive. Not optimal but possible. Maybe there is a better solution out there, I don't know for sure. Not enough research.

I forget if it was windscribe or proton VPN , but I remember a while back I was looking at different VPN's that do OVPN profiles for installing on routers and one of them offered not only IP reservation but also P2P support (likely a limited scope of course).  Was an extra feature set you had to subscribe to for a year to make it reasonably priced though.

I am hoping that my Asus built-in GVPN will work for any game I might run into that needs it when I get to that point again (taking a break from FPS and such and just chilling with old school RPG these days).  If not and they haven't worked out these port forwarding and such issues, will likely just have to go back to $pectrum with their intro rate for a year, then take a look at what TMO/ATT/Verizon are doing at that time.

Just tossing out the idea of investigating using IPv6 as you can, in effect, lease a public IPv4 address yearly but well good luck buying a static one.  I know my client has three global IPv6 addresses and a 6to4 port can be created. I have not tinkered with 6to4 tunneling but i have worked with other packet encapsulation techniques. If the clients on both ends were established with IPv6 and 6to4 tunneling that might be interesting.

I think T-Mobile may have done something about this.  My connection has finally been stable enough to surpass 14 days.  I'm less than an hour short of hitting 16 days actually.  My public IP has not changed the whole time.  This is a nice change.  ¡Gracias T-Mobile!

Hi. I am facing an issue with Hulu with the ip changing. Has your ip changed after the 14 days and if so. How long. Thanks