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Hey, you actually have a few options, notably, doing nothing! Comcast doesn't actually change your public IP address between DHCP renewals and thus it's effect
by qmarchi 5y ago
Hey, you actually have a few options, notably, doing nothing!
Comcast doesn't actually change your public IP address between DHCP renewals and thus it's effectively static. The only time that it'll change is when the modem is powered off for an amount of time, or the upstream DOCSIS concentrator is powered off for maintenance or otherwise.
- orf 5y agoSo: arbitrarily and without warning.
- sokoloff 5y agoSure; however, I’ve had the same IP on Comcast residential for a little over a decade. There are many endeavors that could fade that low a frequency of IP changing.
- mwcampbell 5y agoI would be more worried about violating the ISP's terms of service. Running a business based on that seems pretty precarious.
- Nextgrid 5y agoWhat’s the worst that can realistically happen?
- awslattery 5y agoIf you don't have another provider option, you stand to lose Internet as a utility for your residence, which many would consider a pretty poor situation.
- Nextgrid 5y agoHas that ever happened in practice? I find it very hard to believe that a company normally so desperate for new business as to spam people with sales calls and lock people into contracts (to make sure they can't leave once the service ends up being sub-par) would suddenly start saying no to people's money and cutting them off based on a technicality.