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att business internet that has 3 ip addresses keeps changing? Making searching internet impossible.?

Hello. a friend of mine has AT&T Business and says he has 3 IP addresses.

He has been having problems using the internet, and it is starting to affect his business.

He says he has 3 IP addresses for the business and that they might be changing.

He also only has 1 computer in the business,

When I tried logging on to the internet it tossed out an error that said internet address has changed, or something similar to that. This has happened with Google Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

I am pretty decent with computer stuff, but have not run across this before, nor has google search come up with any results for me.

Reseting the router temporarily helps.

Has anyone run across this before? If so, how did you fix it?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Typically, your ISP will give you a dynamically changing IP Address unless you specify otherwise. Your router will do whats called NAT where it translates the IP address of your computer(s) to an address (External) that can be routed on the Internet. I can't say that I have ever seen that time of message before, I've been doing IT Consulting for a while now. You may want to get in touch with your ISP to determine whether or not this is a routing issue or an issue with your PC. A way to determine that would be to bring another computer(maybe a laptop) into the business and see if it picks up and retains an IP. Then you would know at least where to start looking. Sorry, I can't give you a direct answer, but there are so many unknown variables with every network and without being there, I couldn't possibly correctly diagnose the issue.

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