Dynamic of fixed?

[#1]

I've never had a fixed IP. But despite taking down the ONT for 5 minutes, 10 minutes and even overnight (around 8 hours) I'm still getting the same IP.

Before anyone asks - the Hub2 remained up. I've never had to reboot the Hub2 to get a new IP allocation in the past.

[#2]

Despite it being said on here that the dynamic ip's are sticky, I have never had the same ip address when I make a re- connection on Plusnet. On Sky, I had the same sticky ip for 18 months.

Mark

[#3]

@grumble I can see you have a dynamic IP. It changed on the 26th, 28th, 31st and the 1st. 

[#4]

@Marksfish 

The degree of stickiness is dependent on the local pool of IP addresses and the population using it.  If you are in a sizable conurbation there is every chance that the pool of IP addresses are being turned over quite fast / might have a shorter lease time.

In rural areas, with small populations the churn on IP addresses could be less and thus IP address will appear to be more sticky.

@grumble 

You might not have needed to reboot the Hub Two to change the IP address, but will most certainly need to disconnect the PPP session by one means or another.  The IP address is allocated on the establishment of the PPP session.  A restart of the PPP session will follow...

• Rebooting of the router
• Loss and restoration of the xDSL session
• BT Wholesale engineering works disconnecting PPP sessions
• Manual disconnection of the PPP session

Without one of the above, there will be no change to the IP address.