Y’all quit downvoting OP. He’s right in some cases, not so much in others.
US here, old cable internet guy. Can’t speak for all the ISP’s, but the several I’ve worked leave your dynamic IP alone unless you swap routers or modems. Weird because they used to swap your IP on reboots, or seemingly randomly. 🤷🏻♂️
Can’t think of an easy, reliable way to do it without new hardware.
I’ve been able to get new IPs by simply power cycling my IP - though my IP also used to change randomly on its own also (I always presumed there was some network outage in the night when this happened though), I’ve also had quite a few different ISPs and they all worked like this, maybe it’s more common in the UK.
I only know this is the norm because I host a website and media server from my home and had to update my DNS records everytime my IP changed, so I started to request static IPs
Y’all quit downvoting OP. He’s right in some cases, not so much in others.
US here, old cable internet guy. Can’t speak for all the ISP’s, but the several I’ve worked leave your dynamic IP alone unless you swap routers or modems. Weird because they used to swap your IP on reboots, or seemingly randomly. 🤷🏻♂️
Can’t think of an easy, reliable way to do it without new hardware.
I’ve been able to get new IPs by simply power cycling my IP - though my IP also used to change randomly on its own also (I always presumed there was some network outage in the night when this happened though), I’ve also had quite a few different ISPs and they all worked like this, maybe it’s more common in the UK.
I only know this is the norm because I host a website and media server from my home and had to update my DNS records everytime my IP changed, so I started to request static IPs