[Flintstones1962]

Hello,
My question may seem very strange, but I've heard from a friend that I can change my Dynamic IP address assigned to me from ISP to Static without paying extra charges to the company.

Is this possible ?

Greetings,

[Curlyben]

Really depends on what country, but I very much doubt it.
You would have to talk to your ISP and ask them.

There are ways to make it act as if its static. HAve a look HERE for ideas.

[ScottGem]

Hello,
My question may seem very strange, but I've heard from a friend that I can change my Dynamic IP address assigned to me from ISP to Static without paying extra charges to the company.

Is this possible ?

Greetings,

That's up to your carrier. If theywant to charge there is nothing you can do.

However there are services that will do the translation for you. Essentially, whenever your IP changes, the services database is updated. But many of them charge a fee too.

[hawkeman]

It is possible depending, as mentioned above, on your carrier. I didn't know that my carrier offered StaticIP at no extra charge until I was setting up a surveillance DVR for a customer and told them they'd need a StaticIP and that it might cost extra. They called the ISP and found out that it's no extra charge.

I got mine with a phone call, took about 15 minutes. It was nice to drop the DDNS stuff (that was often buggy anyway).

[Darth_Tanion]

Depending on what you want to do you can simulate a static IP I guess you could say. I have a dynamic IP address at home but I like to be able to remote into my PC and Router so I use no-ip.org. They supply a small download that you run on one of your PC's behind your router or on the computer you connect to the internet with and then you can have a url so rather than using your IP address you can type in "myurl.no-ip.org". Depending on what you want to do with your static IP this can provide a nice, free alternative.

[Flintstones1962]

Thanks a lot for everybody...
Was really nice to read all you reactions...

Greetings