On Sunday 02 August 2020 16:05:07 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 02 Aug 2020 at 01:00:08 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 01 August 2020 23:52:51 David Wright wrote: > > > Currently, my IP address has been stable since I switched on the > > > modem (which runs 24/7) after my Christmas break. > > > > My address for the link in my sig below isn't fixed, but its now > > been stable into the 3rd, 5 years at $20 renewal at Namecheap. And > > it won't change unless shentel changes how they do dhcp between my > > router and their servers The secret for me? I've cloned the same > > MAC into both routers, normal and a cold backup, so they are 100% > > interchangeable. Both routers are running dd-wrt, and that url _is_ > > this machine. > > My modem is the one they gave me with the service back in 2013, > so the MAC has never changed. OTOH the service has changed address > twice, and the pole and cabling changed at the last of these. > This last required fitting an attenuator at the modem, presumably > because it was overloading the analogue input and damaging the signal. > I've never taken particular notice of when the IP address has changed, > apart from this last one. But I can see useful benefits in changes > as well as a lack of them. In your case, WV might be behind on some > of the modernisations that others have mentioned. We too. > > Cheers, > David.
Behind? We're so far back the main group is not in sight. I've no clue once past the cable modem, how many miles it might be to a legit ipv6 address. At least a hundred unless they've a special service at the FBI shop 30 miles north and 10 north of Clarksburg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
