My IP address has been blocked by certain websites and no matter how much I look in the router settings page or how much googling I do I cannot find a way to change it. I know it has been the same ever since I got ATT fiber which doesn’t make sense because it claims to be a dynamic IP, and static IPs don’t make sense for home internet in the first place.
What do I have to do to get it changed? A VPN is not an option for me.
You need to unplug your fiber modem for 30 days.
You cant on the AT&T lightspeed platform (VDSL/Fiber), aa the IP address is tied to your account. You can unplug your modem for an extended period of time and the DHCP lease may expire but no guarantee.
The reason your dynamic public IP can persist is that the system will renew it before it expires. And the preference is to renew it with the same address.
If there is a widespread power loss, then when the server that provides IP addresses is reset, and when your modem requests an IP address when coming up, the server doesn’t recall what you were so can give you a new one. Letting someone else get the blocked IP address.
The reason the others specify requesting a static IP address is that they are likely from a different selection of IP numbers.
Former AT&T business fiber rep here. You’ll need to pay for the block of 5 static IPs to make happen what you are wanting to happen, based on your other comments.
Good luck getting a call center rep to understand what you are asking for though. Even if you do manage to get the order placed, there’s no guarantee you’ll ever get the static IP info. Business side it isn’t a problem whatsoever, residential is a different story.
Your ip address isn’t a setting in your modem.
Att could probably change it if you talked to the right person, but expect to be on the phone for several days as this is not something they would normally accommodate. They probably will tell you no regardless.
Paying for a static ip would be a work around.
You ask how to fix a problem, are given solutions by current and former employees, and you won’t accept them. Why should anyone else answer?
Cancel your account and get a new one
if you can login to the router and do a release and renew but chances are you’ll get the same IP address again if AT&T has that IP listed to your MAC. You might need to power down your equipment for an extended period and hope that another customer grabs that public.
if these websites blacklisted your IP, you were probably doing something you shouldn’t have.
What is your source on this working?
I need my internet to work so this isn’t an option anyway.
Why can AT&T not do something as simple as change your IP?
They could get staics, but that’s about the only way. Assign it to the specific devices.
This, pay for the static for a month, then cancel.
I agree, ATT can change it, but good luck getting the people on the phone to understand your request.
My IP being static is the whole problem
I have not found any reliable information online of being able to get a new IP by just powering off the modem for an extended period of time, and I don’t believe some random chucklefuck saying he works for AT&T and then not elaborating on the information he’s claiming.
I work in the AT&T Office of the President.
If the original IP was under a DDoS attack, would this solve the issue? Or wouldn’t the original IP still be there?
Static IP is the answer. A real staic is a Public IP. When you use DHCP the only Public IP is the one on the RG, and the dynamic IP is just local IP. The WAN IP of the gateway is being used to connect to everything on the actual internet. A block of 5 statics is $15 a month. Try to not be super toxic or hack in games this time around.
It will change to a different one