frequent external ip changes

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have a home network set up with a wireless Linksys G router. Network works
fine - Internet access fine. But have frequent ip changes like 3-6 in 2
hours, which interfers with ip to ip games.
ISP says its a router problem - Linksys says its a ISP problem.
1 XP desk top wired to router-1 Vista laptop WiFi & 1 XP desktop w/usb
adapter - all with static ip to router
Modem is older Alcatel Home
Anyone got a solution or a reason this is happening?
ISP support is terrible
 
Thanks - thats what i figured - The DSL ISP does not offer static ip to
residental customers. Guess I go looking for another provider maybe cable -
pretty sure they don't change as offten.
What about those DNS programs out there that can make a static ip??

Richard G. Harper said:
It's happening because your ISP is making it happen. There's probably no
solution to the problem other than to get a fixed IP address.

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patter said:
have a home network set up with a wireless Linksys G router. Network works
fine - Internet access fine. But have frequent ip changes like 3-6 in 2
hours, which interfers with ip to ip games.
ISP says its a router problem - Linksys says its a ISP problem.
1 XP desk top wired to router-1 Vista laptop WiFi & 1 XP desktop w/usb
adapter - all with static ip to router
Modem is older Alcatel Home
Anyone got a solution or a reason this is happening?
ISP support is terrible
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patter said:
Thanks - thats what i figured - The DSL ISP does not offer static ip to
residental customers. Guess I go looking for another provider maybe
cable -
pretty sure they don't change as offten.
What about those DNS programs out there that can make a static ip??
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I use a free account from DynDNS. My router, a Buffalo WBR-G54 running the
DD-WRT v23 SP2 VPN firmware, supports DynDNS and others like No-IP.com. Both
work equally well. If your router does not support those directly you can
download a small update program onto one of your PCs that will contact the
DynDNS or No-IP servers on a scheduled basis (configurable). That way the
servers know your current public IP address and map that to your fully
qualified domain name (FQDN). You call home using the FQDN.

http://www.dyndsn.com
http://www.no-ip.com

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Thanks - Dynamis DSN was one I came across in my search for answers. Will go
look at it closer.
 
These services don't make a static IP address from a dynamic IP address,
what they do is take your domain name and update the DNS records associated
with it whenever your dynamic IP address changes. The IP address will still
keep changing and probably interfering with your gaming as well, I'd
imagine.

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patter said:
Thanks - thats what i figured - The DSL ISP does not offer static ip to
residental customers. Guess I go looking for another provider maybe cable -
pretty sure they don't change as offten.
What about those DNS programs out there that can make a static ip??
Click to expand...

I had a similar problem recently with a client, which was causing problems
for them to connect remotely to their office computer. They use a DSL
dynamic IP Internet connection, and that's basically where the problem lies.

I set up EasyDNS, which does help keep the connection seemingly "static",
but the IP address was still changing very frequently (so even this was only
semi-helpful). In combination with the dynamic DNS service, I modified the
way the router connects to the ISP -- it was set to disconnect the connection
after 10 mins. of being "idle". This is probably why our IP address is
changing so often. I changed it to 12 hours. That seems to have stablized
things.

Another solution is to go with a cable ISP. The different technology does
stay "always on", which means you shouldn't have IP changes so often.

Best Wishes,
Kurosh
 
have a home network set up with a wireless Linksys G router. Network works
fine - Internet access fine. But have frequent ip changes like 3-6 in 2
hours, which interfers with ip to ip games.
ISP says its a router problem - Linksys says its a ISP problem.
1 XP desk top wired to router-1 Vista laptop WiFi & 1 XP desktop w/usb
adapter - all with static ip to router
Modem is older Alcatel Home
Anyone got a solution or a reason this is happening?
ISP support is terrible
Click to expand...

most ISPs allow a day or two lease of the allocated dynamic IPs. ask
them if they can adjust it for you?
 
Kurosh said:
I had a similar problem recently with a client, which was causing problems
for them to connect remotely to their office computer. They use a DSL
dynamic IP Internet connection, and that's basically where the problem lies.

I set up EasyDNS, which does help keep the connection seemingly "static",
but the IP address was still changing very frequently (so even this was only
semi-helpful). In combination with the dynamic DNS service, I modified the
way the router connects to the ISP -- it was set to disconnect the connection
after 10 mins. of being "idle". This is probably why our IP address is
changing so often. I changed it to 12 hours. That seems to have stablized
things.

Another solution is to go with a cable ISP. The different technology does
stay "always on", which means you shouldn't have IP changes so often.

Best Wishes,
Kurosh
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Thanks for info. Checked router its set at keep alive & checks for
connection every 30 sec..

I've been in contact with ISP again - who farms out support - fought my way
through India finally got to talk with someone in Canada and with threats of
switching finally got someone local who tested our phone lines and tested
modem. Lines ok - modem had errors
Modem is the original one we got when we first got DSL many moons ago. So
old no way to check settings. I was thinking maybe it had hiccups hence the
ip changes.

Should have a new modem in a few days - will post results.
Fingers crossed - really don't want to change ISP - had it so long and
everything registered with that email.

Thanks again Patter
 
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