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Static IP
I was told by a Cox rep a few weeks ago that I was assigned a STATIC IP. it appears I have DHCP. I would appreciate a static and am willing to pay extra. I have a home office and a satellite office and a good majority of the time I leave a file or two on my home PC and have to RDC in. this becomes cumbersome when cox rolls my IP. I have other ISPs that are willing to give me a static. I don't understand why in this day in age a residential account cant have a static IP. Please don't respond to this with some third party app like team viewer or some DDNS. NOT INTERESTED. I was told by cox I have a static (if you guys record the calls like you say you will hear it) I pay for my services and I believe there is no reason to be denied a static IP. I would like to know why I was told I was assigned one and also what reason is behind not giving a customer who requests it, a static IP.
Tecknowhelp
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9 years ago
"I would like to know why I was told I was assigned one and also what reason is behind not giving a customer who requests it, a static IP."
Can you explain how the conversation of IP came up? Was there some exception to why you would get a static IP? Cox uses DHCP for it's residential service. Main reasons why is it's more user friendly then static, and IPv4 space is a premium.
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wees41
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9 years ago
it is DHCP, but in most cases you will get the same ip when the lease is up, so it might seem like static ip.
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