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Static vs dhcp for gaming?

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Hi Everybody,

I live in Los Angeles, and at least on the west side the internet here has become so congested that gaming has become unbearable. cable isp, 3 diff dsl isp's it's all the same.
Playing CS, network congestion keeps rearing it's ugly head requiring my data to be continually resent. While not technically packet loss, it has the same effect. The tech at my current ISP suggest that a static IP could improve my situation, I been told in the past that this is bull. My connection is 1.5mb/384K. My current isp charges an additonal $15-20mo for a static IP. I don't have a problem paying the extra $$$ if it will improve my situation.
Opinions please?

Thanks in advance....
 
Umm, I don't think a Static IP would help *that* much. I'm no network expert, but the only thing I could foresee would be that IP being cached somehow if you frequent the same server. Otherwise, I think he's just trying to make you shell out more per month.

Even if it did help though, $15-$20 is pretty steep...I think it's like an extra $5/$10 for comcast, but in my expierience, my IP has only changed with my modem. That's cable though.
 
I agree... I can't think of any reason why it would have a noticable increase in performance; I'm not an expert either though.
 
The only way a static would help you is if the static IP was a "business-class" offering at the ISP that either had different priority through their network or used a different primary backbone provider than the dynamic residential stuff. Otherwise, the guy is just trying to get you to spend more money. If they wont back up their performance claims with an SLA, I'd call bullshit.
 
Your IP doesn't change very often. Even if it changes once a week...it would drop you only during that time. It's not like your IP changes several times a day.
 
Static IP's won't help performance, but I use them exclusively on my network because I have routes and such going on, and having static's on printers is the only way to go.

However, I do not set the static's on the devices themselves.

My router, the DLink DGL-4300, allows me to 'reserve' IP addresses for anything on the network. It's the same as setting statics in that the same IP is given to each device every time, but it's all maintained in the router. I love this feature.

You just click on the popup, pick the computer, and tell it what IP you want to reserve for it and from that point that device will always get that IP address.
 
TechLarry said:
Static IP's won't help performance, but I use them exclusively on my network because I have routes and such going on, and having static's on printers is the only way to go.

However, I do not set the static's on the devices themselves.

My router, the DLink DGL-4300, allows me to 'reserve' IP addresses for anything on the network. It's the same as setting statics in that the same IP is given to each device every time, but it's all maintained in the router. I love this feature.

You just click on the popup, pick the computer, and tell it what IP you want to reserve for it and from that point that device will always get that IP address.
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He's talking about static WAN IP
Most routers these days have the reservation feature in DHCP, but that doesn't help his WAN IP, his ISP controls that.
 
The tech is either full of shit or misspoke. He may have been referring to another service that comes with static IPs, along with better bandwidth allocation.

A static IP alone won't do jack or shit for you though.
 
See if you can get a business class line. That's about the only way out of your latency problems.
 
some ISP's these days offer a "Gaming" package. my isp offers this, basically they prioritize your gaming packets for you. i dont understand how a dsl line is giving you a connection that is unplayable for games. u sure its not your router or something else internally thats messing with ur connection? just a thought. also i agree that i dont think a static ip will help at all, dynamic/static only refers to how the ip address is assigned, nothing to do with performace.

good luck man
 
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