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Originally Posted by Mick
This address is what my son (who is an expert on this shit) calls "relatively static". My understanding of what he said is that that my ISP CAN change my router's IP address, but such activities require "resources", which means it costs money, so they don't do it unless there is a reason. Said another way, as a user, I can consider my router's IP address to be static.
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Your son is mostly correct. It actually costs your ISP nothing to change your assigned IP address, but their DHCP servers are configured to preserve the MAC-to-IP-address mapping under most circumstances, simply out of convenience.