Help from Broadband Brain Box needed

christabell

Will one of you broadband brain boxes please help me?

After too and frowing......I have decided on Be for my new broadband supplier.....

Static IP address and Dynamic IP address are mentioned on the site. I know NOTHING about these choices.....even though I note on the Be value this choice is not needed.....

So what does STATIC IP address mean?
What does DYNANIC IP address mean?

When I phoned the sales line the sales assistant hadn't a bramble....:mad:

DatabaseError

If you need to ask, it really doesn't matter to you, and dynamic will be fine

If you were hosting applications/files/sites then static would be an issue, for general web usage it really doesn't matter

DCodd

Basically, IP address is a number issued to your computer to identify it and be able to locate it.

Static IP Address - a number given to you and stays the same
Dynamic IP Address - every time you connect a different number is issued.

mrJ_5

Chances are, you're using a dynamic IP right now - usually the people that need a static IP address know about it.... it doesn't affect access to get online - its just something that someone may need as part of their job



If you need to know 100% of everything before signing up - you'd also want to know how broadband works, and a lot of other technical stuff that would just either bore someone to death, or frighten people away.... not many people want to know everything in detail - belongs as it works, you don't need to know why....

christabell

mrJ

Thank you. I have just learned two things
1. The difference between static and dynamic ip addresses.
2. let somebody google it for you.

Thank you for the links and now I understand the question.

456789

Their is also Sticky IP which means it is dynamic but necessarily change everytime you connect