Need basic help with my public IP

[WACK]

My question is super basic and not really related to DumaOS (other than that is what I use): How to I get a public IP that makes sense?

 

DumaOS has not worked very well for me for a while...

After a lot of digging, Turns out my IP address is geo-located by at least one service I can find (IP2Location) on the opposite side of the country. Others show me correctly basically right in my house. (ipinfo.io EurekAIP, DB-IP)...

This causes me to matchmake almost exclusively on the wrong side of the country, or EXTREMELY poor quality of games even with filtering. 

 

[BIG__DOG]

Hi.

 

In answer to your question there is not much you can do regarding changing your public ip address. You have 3 options only......

 

1:          Turn off your modem for a while and when it reboots it may obtain a new public ip address but that is not guaranteed.

2.          Ask your isp if you can have a static ip address which never changes. You may be charged extra for this if they do offer it as it is mainly business that benefit                    from a static public ip address.

3.          Do a search for isp's that offer a fixed ip address as standard with their packages.

 

BD

[Netduma Admin]

As BD says - those are your three best options. Ive heard that turning off your modem for 24 hours can sometimes force a change (rather than a minute), so you might want to try that if you can face no Internet for 24 hours.

If I were in your shoes the best option would be to call up your ISP and request a change. That's what we recommend to anyone who is being DDoSSed as they also need a new IP.

[WACK]

7 hours ago, Netduma Admin said:

As BD says - those are your three best options. Ive heard that turning off your modem for 24 hours can sometimes force a change (rather than a minute), so you might want to try that if you can face no Internet for 24 hours.

If I were in your shoes the best option would be to call up your ISP and request a change. That's what we recommend to anyone who is being DDoSSed as they also need a new IP.

My ISP (Comcast) says they can't renew my IP unless I pay for business service for an insane upcharge. 

Maybe the 24 hour thing will work. I tried about 8 hours, overnight, and that didn't.

My only other ISP option is 3mbps AT&T. Unbelievable.

 

 

I theoretically should be able to get around this with the VPN update, right? But I am unclear on the steps I need to take to do that. If that would help my situation, is it possible to discuss how to configure it?