IP address

any idea, why my IP address has changed three time within a year, nothing has changed from my side. Also, Virgin claims that broadband speed is up to 10 kbps, mine usually gets up to 3kbps, what do i do wrong?

Edited by lynxy (Sun 28-Feb-10 17:10:52)

note the "up to", virgin media are well known to put lots of customers on one single node making all the customers effectively share a connection, with this high contention you may never get 10mb

my advice is move to someone else

Indeed up to is a loose statement with virgin. Packetloss and high pings and a reality after 6 for me .

IP addresses are not static on the cable services so can change a lot more often if they wanted

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think many ISP's offer static IP addresses. It's quite common (and perfectly normal) for it to change.

If you are running some sort of server and need a static address you could always use a free service like DynDNS which can be re-associated with a new IP address as and when required.

Unfortunately most broadband is now sold as 'up to' and there's quite a few factors that can effect your overall speed. It may be the server that you're downloading from wont, or can't, supply the data fast enough for your connection - In this case it isn't Virgins fault. Have you run a few different speed tests or downloaded any test files?

Every ADSL ISP I was with did. Zen, Plusnet then Andrew & Arnold.

I've found that since I've been on 50Mb (September last year) I'd had the same IP until they resolved my high packetloss issue - They are pretty sticky, but not static, so DynDNS is the way forward and works great for me.

Edited by deleted (Mon 01-Mar-10 11:52:03)

There was a time you could power down for a few weeks and still have the same IP>

If you've got Telewest Business Broadband -> Virgin Media Business Broadband at 10 Mbps you can pay £10 a month for a 'fixed' IP address, which is not actually fixed nor static, but is less dynamic than an ordinary one.

In practice the IP address is fairly constant, unless you get shifted to another UBR, the 'static' DHCP lease fails, etc, and your Exchange server suddenly becomes inaccessible...

At home, I've had the same cable IP address for several years now.