Dynamic IP

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Hello,

I will be moving to live in Belgium and my internet provider there will only provide dynamic IP. Do you know if that is going to be an issue for playing WoW?

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No, it will not be an issue.

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Ancelyn in correct. In many countries Dynamic is the default, you have to pay extra for a fixed IP with some companies.

Add an authenticator to your account if you have not done so already, this will cut down the risk of setting off any IP security checks by mistake. Its free for Android and Apple Smartphones.

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TL;DR “Dynamic IP allocation” doesn’t always mean what an ISP customer thinks it will mean. You could have the same IP for months or years.

I would like to add something to the conversation. most ISPs run IPV4, rather than IPV6. IPV6 is quite dynamic due to all the free allocation space atm.

IPV4 allocation has little free space left. When an ISP says it does ‘dynamic’ IP allocation it often does not mean what the customer thinks it does. The customer thinks roughly “New IP every time I reboot my cable modem/___ router.” When often it is more along the lines of that IPV4 allocation is “sticky” in nature.

For example, my cable ISP doesn’t offer static IPs to customers, they say it is “dynamic.” The reality of it though is that it is infact “sticky.” My IP address will change, but it could change after months or several years. I am with Virgin Media cable in the UK and many customers have had their “dynamic” IP for two+ years.

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As long as you don’t turn your router off you will have the same IP, even if you do it will be similar as they usually go through the available ones sequentially.

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Some ISP’s use sticky DHCP, meaning that the CMTS will always try and allocate you the same IP, if its still available from the IP pool.

But yes, there will be no issue playing WoW with DHCP, it was designed for it.

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Hey again, thank you all for your answer.
I am glad to hear that. I was really surprised because I come from Bulgaria, where I believe the majority of the IP’s are static. Therefore, I thought I am being ‘scammed’ in away.

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Thank you for the explanation. Yes, I was one of those people that understood something totally different. I was reading more in the sense of changing once every x amount of time.