Today, Jerry Feldman gleaned this insight:
> I would agree to some extent that the cable company can change IP
> addresses. However, in defense of Mediaone, I have had 2 IP address changes
> in almost 4 years. The first was because Mediaone was renumbering the local
> area, the second was when I changed NICs.
Yeah, like I said, it seems to depend largely on where you live... I've
heard of a number of other people whose IP addresses have changed very
infrequently, but I've also heard from a few other people that theirs has
changed rather frequently.
I've actually had only 5 IP addresses; one of the six times (or rather
five, since technically when I got the first IP address, it was new, and
hadn't changed from a previous one...) when my IP address changed, it
changed back to an IP address that I'd already had, just before the one I
had currently had! They were on different segments too... That seemed a
little weird.
Oh well, doesn't matter much I guess...
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