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Originally Posted by lxcivic4life
192.168.X.X is a FREE Class C IP Address that the IEEE has given out to everyone for personal home use, thats why it's a Dynamic IP.
But again, you HAVE to have a Static IP. Check with your ISP if you are not sure. I'm pretty sure many people here do not have Static IPs because it costs extra. ISP won't just give everyone a Static IP because, frankly, they're aren't that many left to give away unless the IEEE begins to use IPv6...but that won't happen for a while and thats another story.
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I am not trying to argue with you, but I do want everyone to be straight on this. First, the fact that 192.168.xxx.xxx IP addresses are dynamic is probably true but not an accurate description.
192.168.xxx.xxx IP addresses are private IP addreesses, not governed by ICANN, and allowed to be used anywhere. However they cannot be live on the Internet in that there is no was to actually direct traffic to them, as they have no public gateway.
The other private IP address classes are 172.16.xxx.xxx and 10.xxx.xxx.xxx. For the record, none of those is a "class C" network... a class C network would be 192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.100.xxx, you get the point. A class C network is a network with the same first three sets of octets with the last set going from 1-254.
Secondly, and more on focus for our discussion here, xcivic4life is absolutely 100% wrong about having to have a static IP address. You absolutely can use dynamic DNS, which is a free service, and will allow you to connect to your network of private IP addresses through the public IP address on your router. Instead of going to an IP address you would go to a dns name (i.e. rainfreak.homeftp.com), which the dynamic DNS provider also provides to you for free.
I know, I use it at home...