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Static IP with home internet or business internet?
Is it possible for me to get one or more static IP addresses if i sign up for either T-Moble home internet or T-Mobile busness internet? Ideally, I need 2 or 3 static IP addresses. Also, if I m...
The problem isn't that T-Mobile uses DHCP IP addresses. All the cable companies do the same thing when they provide Internet service.
The problem is that T-Mobile doesn't have local pools from which the devices can grab their IP addresses. When I had T-Mobile Home Internet I would get IP addresses that geolocated to Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. I live in upstate NY.
I am currently using my local cable company for internet (Spectrum). My public facing IP geolocates to the town I live in. And it aways has.
Without proper geolocation, I have had problems with streaming services thinking I am out of location. Searching for "restaurants near me" in a browser would bring me to restaurants from all over the country. Not much help.
For many of us, geolocation is everything. I really wanted TMHE to work. It had great speed, and was cheap. But without a solution for Geolocation, I returned it within 5 days. I spent days on the phone with their tech support going from techs that didn't know it was a problem, didn't understand what geolocation even was, or those that claimed there was no solution. Hours on the phone.
It's sad. It could be such a great solution.
