anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
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anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
28-03-2016 2:27 PM
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28-03-2016 2:58 PM
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Quote from: may123 what I can do to make it easier to change my IP address on demand
As it is extremely unlikely that Plusnet can magically make their dynamic IP address pool 'less sticky' just for you, perhaps you should first explain why this is a problem, then from your underlying issue the forum members here may be able to suggest alternative solutions.
As an example, if you were able to use IPv6 and ensured "privacy extensions" were enabled, then your public facing IP address would be randomly generated each time you started your computer, and would be far less sticky than any ISPs dynamic IPv4 address pool. Assuming you had a /48 subnet then the random address could be one of 281474976710656.
Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
28-03-2016 4:24 PM
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Quote from: Nibiru As an example, if you were able to use IPv6
How is this helpful? Although not impossible, it's highly unlikely that may123 is on the IPv6 trial so your advice isn't likely to be applicable for some considerable (unspecified!) time
Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
28-03-2016 4:41 PM
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Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
28-03-2016 5:52 PM
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Quote from: pwatson it's highly unlikely that may123 is on the IPv6 trial so your advice isn't likely to be applicable
Why would they need to be on the "IPv6 trial" ?, I've been using IPv6 constantly for about three years,
I simply started a free IPv6 Tunnel Broker account, typed the numbers from the account into my router and IPv6 works !.
Nearly 90% of my entire internet usage is IPv6 and is often faster than IPv4 for the same websites !.
Before you say that will need a different router, there are examples of how to configure Plusnet routers on this forum.
I used that as an example, to demonstrate that there were possible solutions, which may or may-not be applicable.
But we won't know how to help until we get to see an explanation as to why the WAN address needs changing on demand,
as that seems a rather obscure and unconventional thing to be doing, seeing as many people prefer having a static IP !
There are many other examples which might help in different scenarios, but it would be pointless trying to make a list of solutions to imagined hypothetical problems, or make further suggestions to solve endless possibilities, when the person asking the question just needs to explain why they have a problem which doesn't affect the vast majority of other customers. The most likely outcome is that the user just needs to be doing something slightly differently rather than frequently restarting their PPP session to force a WAN address change.
Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
28-03-2016 6:22 PM
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Quote from: Bob Things will be stickier in certain circumstances.
Thanks Bob, would you please expand on this comment, as I feel that because this so called 21st century platform is a newly establised one with far fewer member accounts at present than the one I was on before, the comparatively limited connection/disconnection activity of the other accounts could be the reason why it is difficult for me to get a different IPaddress. I was told by Plusnet telephone support that maybe in future with more accounts moving onto this platform, it may get simpler to change the IP address?
Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
28-03-2016 6:37 PM
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28-03-2016 7:31 PM
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28-03-2016 9:45 PM
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So we now know why dynamic IPs don't change as much on the "New Network",
but we still don't know why this is important to 'may123', or why it causes a problem.
Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
29-03-2016 8:21 AM
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Re: anyon got moved to the new plusnet ( so called 21st century IP address platform?
29-03-2016 8:38 AM
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Quote as I feel that because this so called 21st century platform
Just to clarify a point here, you were already on the 21CN platform (that's the one that offers ADSL2+). You've been moved to a new network on the Plusnet side of things.
As others have mentioned, if you can give us an idea of why the IP being sticky is a bad thing for you we can see if we can make any suggestions to help.
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