Issues after upgrading to Static IP

[Randy]

I upgraded to static IP, since I needed to set up a VPN to our head office. I set my router to static and entered all the variables. It worked for a little while and stopped. I verified that the IP did not change. I am continually unplugging and plugging my router back in to get back on line. What am I doing wrong? When it is working, it works great!

[Chuck81 · Accepted solution]

TELUS static ip address is configured to be set as DHCP. This means that you shouldn't be required to hard code the assigned static ip TELUS provides you. In fact, it's recommended that you do not hard code your IP as the lease time for the IP on TELUS' DHCP servers expires after 2 hours. When this happens and that you have hard coded your ip, your internet service would stop unless you rebooted your modem.

So what's the solution? Configuring your router to DHCP instead of static. You will still receive the static ip address TELUS provided you though with this setup.

If you also do require a solution that requires you to configure hard coded static ip, TELUS does offer managed solutions:

http://telus.com/en_CA/QC/products/Medium_And_Large_Business/Internet_And_Data/Business_Internet/det...