Alright everyone, odd question for you all since I'm not too familiar with CenturyLink's static IP.
First off, going to let you all know that I upgraded my Q1000 gateway that I bought from Qwest before CenturyLink took over to the latest version of QAQ002-31.20L.4.
I have it going to an DrayTek Vigor2920n router that's making the PPPoE connection.
I have a second internet going through Mediacom as well (the gateway they've provided does not have any way to pass through or bridge the connection to just pass the public IP over to my router which complicates some things but is manageable).
Anyways, here's what I'm thinking about doing. I want to get a static IP address from CenturyLink (or a block of static IPs, depending on if this is doable or not) and setup my own web host to get away from other web host solutions to save me about $90 a month (figuring in the cost of the static IPs from the ISP).
The problem comes into how the static IP works on Qwest's network. If I order just one static IP, would the WAN side of my router get the same IP address everytime it makes a PPPoE connection (aka having to reboot the router for any reason), if so that will work out great for what I want done.
Otherwise, if I need a block, I know my router allows for IP routed subnet as long as I have the information, I'm too used to how AT&T does theirs since I support it for 5+ years now in their U-Verse department, so the static IP for CenturyLink is new to me.
So, anyways, let me know if a single static IP will actually work for me or tell me what you would do. Thanks. (and sorry if it's all over the place, half asleep, banging my head over this debating, and should be going to bed for work in the afternoon).
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~scsa20
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