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blackrock13

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For you real techies;

If you move say from Brampton to DT TO, does you're IP address change with or without using the same provider? Just curious.
 
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There is no way to answer this question without a bit more info from you.

If you have a regular residential account with your ISP, then its IP address is probably changing fairly often - I have a DSL account and I have seen the address last as long as 8 days, as well as change twice in one day.

On the other hand, if you have a commercial account that includes static IP addresses, then moving from Brampton to Toronto shouldn't affect the address at all.
 

Rockslinger

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If you have a regular residential account with your ISP, then its IP address is probably changing fairly often - I have a DSL account and I have seen the address last as long as 8 days, as well as change twice in one day.
Why is that? And is that a good or bad thing?
 

b1icaj27

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Your address will change for sure. It would be a major pain in the ass for an ISP to move IP addresses all over the place. They assign complete subnets to different areas of each city wether it is static or not.
 

blofeld

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An ISP owns a pool of IP addresses. Most ISPs use dynamic address allocation, so that they do not need exactly the same number of addresses as they have customers. What that means is you may be given an address (for an agreed-upon amount of time, after which your computer must ask for an address again -- and it may get the same one or a different one), but when you shut down your computer, you're releasing that address back to the ISP. If an influx of other customers such as yourself demand enough addresses, the one you had may be doled out to someone else; that's why your address may change.

IP addresses are pretty geographically stable, so migrating from Brampton to Downtown TO, you would very likely change IP addresses (unless, as previously mentioned you pay for a static IP address and you are staying with the same provider).
 

WoodPeckr

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bassnut

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Unless you have a Static IP address it potentially changes everytimeyou star your computer and your modum connects to your ISP. Even if you leave your computer on your ISP will force an IP Address refresh on your IP Address about once a month. Since I did my web course back in 2000 I have run my own server which was quite the chore till I got the Static IP Address. If you move to a different city yes your IP Address will also change.
 

Twister

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My IP address has been the same for 3 years (dsl) its residential...so I don't know how you guys say it changes often......? (I didn't move)
 

splooge

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I have always had some kind of trouble with D-link too... their wireless routers give my family headaches and I've had connectivity problems on occassion. Though I never really thought it was the particular routers I had that caused the problems... until I tried a Netgear. all the problems are gone now and I can even turn the wireless signal off when I'm not using it. Being a microwave radiation conservationist, that makes me :)
 
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