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Re: Is anyone else having problems with a changing IP address?
My fix is in the last paragraph, but here is some context if you're interested... A short lease of my IP address just started happening to me, and I came across this forum. My external IP address is changing once or twice per minute! As you can imagine, this is really inconvenient because many sites check for this and boot the user when their IP address changes mid-session causing the user to login again. I'm on a Mac, so at first I thought it had to do with the new-ish "limit IP tracking" feature -- turning that off didn't do anything for me. I then called T-Mobile and was not able to get beyond the first step of support (he was super nice, just not very helpful -- he spoke to an engineer up the ladder and came back to tell me that there was adifference between static and dynamic IP addresses...d'oh). The issue is not that it's adynamic IP address -- it's the lease time of the dynamic external IP address that the Gateway is throwing out to the world. I was able to see my external IP address change very quickly through a simple PHP script. (if you're interested:) echo ' MyIP:'. $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; My fix was to sign up for an external VPN (I chose protonVPN, but there are many others out there). This has fixed my issue, and I hope it's helpful to someone else who comes across this discussion.7Visto2likes0Comentarios