Way OT: IP address buttignment on cable modem Something smells! Was: Anderson Valley Pinot Noir

Sure, that's the case for a lot of users, until the power drops on your router and when powering up, you find the leased IP has been given to the next guy down the street who's also powering up.

Leasing is auto-renewed unless at a point when power is lost, and someone else's router is jockeying for an open IP. I cycled through about ten different IPs in the course of two weeks once, when construction consistently cut my Comcast cable setting. Admittedly, I was in a relatively large suburbia scape at the time with about 100,000 customers, so a lot of demand for open IPs.. the point is, it can happen when you least expect.

I certainly wasn't comparing anything to telephone modems. I have no idea where you got that idea. Haven't used a dialup in over five years. Have a nice 5-Meg fiber connection, but what do you know -- even it is a dynamic buttignment. All I have to do is power cycle it for TEN whole seconds, and immediately, a new IP is buttigned. Checking www.hostip.info, I find that my current IP was last leased to a FIOS customer in Reston, Virginia... even though I'm 3,000 miles from that...

Yes, it would be nice if people could stop being myopic with their wanna-be Sherlock Holmes methodologies, as they're obviously flawed. It shouldn't be this easy to poke so many holes in them --- and yet, the conspiracy theories persist.

David