Question about static and dynamic IP's
 

I have been doing more and more work from my home office and the internet connection I have is from Comcast.

My question is how can I get a static IP address? Comcast does not provide this service unless I am under their business win and I do not want to change my service at this time.

Any way to do this from via software or hardware on my end?

What about other people that I want to block from viewing my site that have a dynamic ip address? Anyway to do this?

Thanks!

If the IP is dynamic then there isn't really a way to technically do this without working with your ISP.

Depending on the reason why you want the static IP, there may be ways around it. For instance with http://www.dyndns.com/ you might be able to have your home machine referenceable by using their domain service which will always point a domain to your dynamic IP.

I'm not sure I understand. You can block any IP or any subnet using most software. You may also only allow requests from a certain IP or IP range as well. May I ask what you are wanting to do exactly so that I better understand?

Why would you want to block someone?

Thanks for replying....let me outline what I am trying to do so you can better understand and then answer my questions.

I am working on a mainstream project and we have installed goog analytics and will also be using goog adwords.

The business is in a local market with competitors all bidding on the same keywords etc, I want to block certain people from seeing the adword ads we put up as well as not having my own personal computers show up in the goog analytics while we surf it etc.

Thanks again I appreciate the help :thumbsup

welcome to the downfall of cable internet

Block myself really from showing up in our goog analytics account as well as block my competitors from seeing what my adwords ads look like.

I was afraid of that...not just for myself but for others too...is this correct?

I believe GOOG has an option within analytics to block certain IP addresses or ranges. If so, all you need to do is add your hosts to that. Of course this would also block the counting of statistics from anyone else using those IP ranges.

For the ad problem, I'm thinking you might need to dynamically generate the page and make use of conditionals. If it appears from a certain IP range, alternate content would be presented as opposed to the ads. But this isn't a perfect solution because the other person could simply use a different ISP or proxy to bypass it.

hmm mabey get a cheap dsl line with static ip for these purposes.

So if I block my ip and range I will block tons of other comcast users....don't want that as much as I want to block certain people I can't hurt by business by blocking other by accident. Looks like I won't be able to do that then.

Thanks for your input.

That could be an option but I have a feeling it may be cheaper to go with the comcast business service and get a static ip from them.....I guess I will have to compare the costs and see.

We have had comcast biz at the office for a few yrs now, works great - never down, and like $160.00 per month.. Have comcast at home also.

One thing about comcast I noticed over the years is even know you get a dynamic IP, it rarely every changes...

Yes. If you block them from analytics then they would still be able to see your site, they just might not be counted by analytics in your stats.

Depending on how Comcast allocates IPs you might be able to block only certain local ranges as opposed to blocking everyone from Comcast.

You might consider using a static proxy to access your site for testing. Then block only that IP in Analytics and anytime you test, use that proxy. If you have a dedicated server, you could set up your own proxy to do this so that it would appear that the request is coming from your local server. This is pretty technical though. You'd likely need help from your host or a techie to set it up right. :2 cents:

Well that is interesting...Thanks for pointing that out. I will monitor my own and see if I can just go ahead and include it in the excluded list.

What kind of speed do you get for $160 per month?

Thanks :thumbsup

I use a cable model, TWC, and it's been the same IP for almost a year now. Residential service.

That is nice to hear...looks like I could be ok afterall. Thanks :thumbsup

well the 160.00 is pretty high for cable modem service but biz is always more and cable is much faster then dsl around here. we get like 12 meg down 1 meg up.

at home for 62.00 per month we get like 15 meg down and 1 meg up :)