Do you use a static IP or Dynamic IP at Home?

Hi all, I was just wondering what the community does as far as there home network. Do you use a static or dynamic ip?

 

I use DHCP all the time. But I mean, what's the matter?
You better stick with one method that same with your outdoor connection, say the network setup in your school or company.

If are using less than 20 ports router or switch in your home, DHCP is not really much difference from static IP. Normally home router only 4 port, you only deal with 4 IP addresses.

 

For my Router its Dynamic for me...

 

Most IP addresses are static with DSL or Cable internet service. Verizon does not offer dynamic IP addresses to their DSL customers. Well, I do not think they offer dynamic IP addresses. I asked customer service about it and it seemed to confuse.

 

I think the OP has routers in mind and not IP address assigned by Providers.

 

Both? My world-facing IP is dynamic from the ISP, but I use a dyndns.org address, so I can get to it whenever. Internally, I use a static IP for my desktop, my media/data server and my web/email server, and then for my laptop and anyone else's, it gets DHCP assigned addresses.

I'll also change the spelling of the poll to the correct "dynamic", as it will annoy me to no end until I do that

 

Both. Dynamic for my computers and static for my Clarkconnect router.

 

here in dubai the IP is through a proxy so the proxy adress keeps changing eveytime one logs onto the internet

 

If you use bit torrent client you get better performance by port forwarding to a PC with static IP

 

I get static IP from the ISP but it's dynamic, of course, once put through the router.

 

If you like to download from sites like Rapidshare, it's better to have a dynamic IP.