[Cialug] Mediacom DesMoines

[David Champion]

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-dc

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:35 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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