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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by dehrmann on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:46AM (#38735920)
> Did your ISP assign you a public IPv4 or not? If the former then you are lucky, that is a relative luxury.

At least until the 10G fiber upgrade happens, Sonic has given me a static IPv4 address for a decade.

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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by justinclift on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:39PM (#38736543)
As a data point, the ISP I'm personally using here in Australia (Launtel, highly recommended) has static IPs as an option.

It's not the default choice (most people don't need one), but people that do need a static IP can get one.

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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by sosborn on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:59AM (#38736076)
Do they guarantee it is static?

My current IP hasn't changed in years but I need to pony up if I want them to guarantee it forever.

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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by dehrmann on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:24PM (#38736363)
> Do they guarantee it is static?

Yes, but it's only for grandfathered DSL.

https://help.sonic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009880293-Static...

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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by josephcsible on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:04PM (#38736141)
Are you running any servers? I can't find it now, but I remember reading somewhere once that ISPs force IP changes more often on residential users that they detect are running servers.
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by ndriscoll on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:28PM (#38738274)
I've been running a web server for the last year or so, and I still have the same IP from Comcast that I've had for years. When I was a teenager I also ran servers and had a stable IP for years. Ostensibly they say you're not allowed to run servers, but I'm guessing they'd only care if you're constantly using a significant chunk of your bandwidth.
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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms by epcoa on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:58AM (#38736073)
Sure. I still remember when I could order additional static IPs on residential cable internet.

That doesn’t mean most getting online today in Asia or Africa basically have a choice other than CGNAT IPv4 and IPv6 from their ISP. Your own dynamically assigned IPv4 is a relative luxury.

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