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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 755741">In general businesses have static IP assignments. Usually 3-5 minimum. So monthly billing pushes and reservation clears don&#039;t impact them. What happens at each billing cycle is they see who is &#039;active&#039; and if someone isn&#039;t responding they pull the reservation, push a new one, and do a signal pump on the modem to bring it into compliance. Also this pushes out the configuration to ISP owned routers, etc. In the process this &#039;knocks&#039; anyone stealing their signal off the network.For appliances such as Fortigate&#039;s on a business network with DHCP (ugh), we use FortiDDNS which automatically refreshes itself when the WAN IP changes. This allows business continuity in the event of such matters. I&#039;ve worked as an engineering consultant for a couple of cable companies/ISP&#039;s and used to be CEO/Owner of an ISP that I sold off to a bigger ISP.&nbsp; Anyway, lately&nbsp; with my existing ISP who I can get free services from I got so tired of monthly billing cycle pushes on my &#039;free&#039; connection that I told them to start charging me to avoid it. So now I pay for my connection, and don&#039;t get knocked off and have to call over to the NOC to get my config manually pushed. Sometimes free isn&#039;t worth free.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 755741"] In general businesses have static IP assignments. Usually 3-5 minimum. So monthly billing pushes and reservation clears don't impact them. What happens at each billing cycle is they see who is 'active' and if someone isn't responding they pull the reservation, push a new one, and do a signal pump on the modem to bring it into compliance. Also this pushes out the configuration to ISP owned routers, etc. In the process this 'knocks' anyone stealing their signal off the network. For appliances such as Fortigate's on a business network with DHCP (ugh), we use FortiDDNS which automatically refreshes itself when the WAN IP changes. This allows business continuity in the event of such matters. I've worked as an engineering consultant for a couple of cable companies/ISP's and used to be CEO/Owner of an ISP that I sold off to a bigger ISP. Anyway, lately with my existing ISP who I can get free services from I got so tired of monthly billing cycle pushes on my 'free' connection that I told them to start charging me to avoid it. So now I pay for my connection, and don't get knocked off and have to call over to the NOC to get my config manually pushed. Sometimes free isn't worth free. [/QUOTE]

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