True: No More Daily Reset?

[autonomous_unit]

Has anyone else noticed that their ADSL is no longer getting a new IP address every day, and connections can be left on for over 24 hours?

I even forced my router to reacquire an address and it got the same one this morning.

[astral]

You do not say which service you are on?

[Khutan]

I did notice that true was very slow last night and this morning.

Mine has been reset some time today, but I don't know if it was the maid dinconnecting the router or not.

[autonomous_unit]

You do not say which service you are on?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sorry, I tried to indicate it in the subject... True high speed ADSL (plain old home service). Up until the past few days, the PPPoE link always reset after 24 hours and invariably got issued a different IP address.

Edited October 18, 2005 by autonomous_unit

[astral]

Sorry I missed that point about TRUE.

Unless you are running a web site, that must have a fixed IP address,

it really does not matter what address you are on.

[autonomous_unit]

I was just curious if this is happening for other folks... to me the main benefit is that TCP connections can stay open more than 24 hours (TCP cannot tolerate a changing address). The changing address used to be an annoyance when I tried to do things like voice-chat but most software is getting better about coping with that automatically due to "NAT traversal" mechanisms, etc.

Also, people who used to count on the relative anonymity of a daily True IP address change might want to consider that their web accesses are now easier to track back and associate as all coming from the same location over a span of several days. (Assuming this is a change for many/all True customers and not just something odd on my line.)

[meadish_sweetball]

My personal experience: I had a dynamic IP with once or twice daily resets for five months, then it became static for four months, and now it is back to dynamic again with two resets per day since two months.

Dont know what is the cause of these changes, but I believe it proves these changes do not span over all TRUE users at the same time at any rate.

/Meadish

[giulio]

yes,also to me from 3 days,i get always the sam ip,before neverproblem,i ha ve always dynamic ip,from 3 days is static,i use true home 2560/512

[KuBand]

Sorry I missed that point about TRUE.

Unless you are running a web site, that must have a fixed IP address,

it really does not matter what address you are on.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There are solutions for dynamic IPs like True / TOT and other provide, if you want to run a web site or the likes from no-ip.com and many others who link your dynamic IP to a DNS name i.e www.thaivia.no-ip.com

It is free and a good solution from home or a small business.

I have never had the problem you mention with TRUE here in Sukhumvit in BKK.

Cheers

[autonomous_unit]

Heh, True must read this board because they seem to have repaired my faulty line and it is now resetting every 24 hours again.

[Crushdepth]

Argh! I'd kill for a static IP address. I want a VPN!

[autonomous_unit]

Oh, I'd like a static address to. It's just that I've decided it is easier to convince myself I like what I got than to get what I like here in Thailand sometimes...

Yes, I have wondered if any western ISPs realize the business they could do in low-cost and low-bandwidth VPN services for international customers. Some VPN servers in a well-connected datacenter somewhere could probably cut overheads to make $20-30 US/month feasible for ADSL speed services... I wonder if there are legal issues which make it too difficult (know thy customer, etc.) or just a lack of imagination in marketing department?

I often wonder if we'll ever see IPv6 take off with this sort of service, to get around "last mile" ISPs who are slow off the start...