[Cialug] Mediacom DesMoines

[David Champion]

YMMV may vary with your ISP, but personally I wouldn't recommend setting a
static IP on your router in a dynamically assigned range. If they do
something that resets their dynamic pool, your IP may get reassigned, and
you'll have a conflict.

Best bet is to keep your router on and active all of the time, you might
also do some kind of keepalive so it sends a packet once every 5 minutes or
something.

-dc


On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:16 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, chris rheinherren wrote:
>
> > Mediacom only gives static's to Commercial customers. If it's a
> residential
> > account then they wont be able to have a static IP.
> >
> Same deal with Charter here in St. Louis. I did find out something tha
> might be beneficial - after you grab a DHCP address for your firewall box
> or router, set it as static - been using the same IP for many years.
>
> Also figured out the routing standard for the Charter network - if your IP
> is n.n.n.n, the gateway is usually n.n.n.1.
>
> IOW, the Charter network doesn't care that you have a DIFFERENT DHCP
> address after reboot/reset, only that you are using a valid one. Could be
> the same for Mediacom?
>
>         Lee
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