I’ve had the Home Internet service for 3 months now and I’m generally happy with it, but one thing is rather annoying. The external IP address that gets assigned to my gateway keeps changing. This has two side effects. Web sites for CCs, banks, etc remember the IP address that you last used to connect and if it changes, they will require additional verification. The other problem is with streaming TV services. The local broadcasts that I’m allowed to watch will depend on where they think that I’m located. My estimated location usually depends on my IP address and in the last month this has changed 4 times! My IP address location has changed from Kansas to Oklahoma, to Texas and today it thinks I’m on Ohio!
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I am having the same problem with the IP address changing periodically. This is causing my streaming service to think I am in Kansas or San Antonio rather than Austin and the local channels reset. A router reset seems to fix it temporarily.
I also had been seeing the frequently changing public IPv4 address. However overnight something must have happened in my area because this morning my public IPv4 address has been stable for several hours. Hope it stays this way.
Nope. Had to reboot my Nokia gateway and the frequently changing IPv4 address is back.
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