I do understand that residential customers don't/can't get static WAN IP addresses, but from what I've read here most residential customers do not see their WAN IP address change except maybe once per year or so. Several have mentioned rebooting their router, etc. only to get the same IP address assigned to them again and again for years at a time before it changes.
I'm wondering if there is some router-specific configuration that allows this to happen, because I've noticed that I get a new IP *every* time I reboot my router. I've considered getting a business account so I could guarantee I'd have a static IP address, but I was curious why so many residential customers seem to have changes in their IP so infrequently when mine changes consistently every time my router is rebooted?
For clarity, I have FiOS with an ONT outside wired by ethernet directly to my router. Is it because those customers have FiOS with a Verizon modem/router before their personal router? Or is there some setting in my personal router that I can change that might be causing a new IP address to be assigned to me every time I reboot?
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