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You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. It is possible that my sampling bias is giving me a distorted view of where the world is going, but: All

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. It is possible that my sampling bias is giving me a distorted view of where the world is going, but: All local ISPs I've asked, don't give out the same IPv4 (they all charge for a fixed IP, so no guarantee you'll get the same one unless you pay; at least 3 out of the 6 actively change your IP whenever they can, to force you to pay even if you need fixed IPs for short times). All local ISPs I've asked provide the same IPv6 prefix to a customer. I assumed that was common practice - at the very least, more common than the other way around (fixed IPv4 when you didn't ask for it, random IPv6)

detaro 9y ago
Quite likely that it varies a lot between markets, true. From what I've seen, cable providers often give you a "static" IP (I think often tied to the modems hardware ID?). ADSL providers here in Germany did commonly reset your connection and IP every 24 hours (or on manual reconnect). From what I hear not all of them do that anymore, but e.g. Deutsche Telekom seems to change IPv6 as well (probably since you're supposed to pay for business class if you want static). And some run the connection as IPv6 only and then CG-NAT IPv4, which of course gives you a random IP again, but is even worse for P2P applications and means you can't use DynDNS etc anymore. My personal connection has had the same IP for the past 5 years, and I think changing it would mean asking my ISP and coming up with an answer for why I need that.