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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network by qlte on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:13PM (#50373757)
That is entirely ISP dependent and many don't actually work like that. Your cable modem gets a specific IP for as long as Comcast or whoever sees fit, restarting does nothing on the WAN side.
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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network by drewnick on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:21PM (#50375142)
True, I've had the same IPv4 address since 2018 on Spectrum despite rebooting at least 10 times.
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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network by consp on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:18AM (#50376146)
In my case a downtime of over 4 hours will switch it. Might just be lease time doing its job.
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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network by prmoustache on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:55AM (#50378091)
This is simply called the dhcp lease time. Restarting has never forced a change of ip on a system using a dhcp client.
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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network by Denatonium on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:13PM (#50386449)
On cable ISPs, oftentimes, changing the router's WAN interface's MAC address and then rebooting the modem will get you a fresh IP address, but rebooting the modem without first changing the router's WAN MAC address will get you the same IP address.
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