TexasDave
Occasional Visitor
Hello,
I just swapped over to a new ISP. They are fibre and based in the UK (Gigaclear). They use CGNAT so I have been having to sort some issues out as I host a few services.
Pretty much everything is sorted and I learned some new stuff along the way (CloudFlare Tunnels, TailScale, ...).
I requested and now have a static IP. Now for my question:
There is a section under WAN titled "WAN Connection Type". Right now I have it set to "Automatic IP". All works fine. I am guessing it works fine as dies not know it is static and just thinks it is an automatic IP and stuff just happens to work. And I am guessing it will keep working fine.
But there is an option to set it to "Static IP". When I do that, I would need to fill in some information.
IP Address: My new static IP
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (I think)
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (my modem IP?) - not sure here...
See attached screenshots.
My questions:
I just swapped over to a new ISP. They are fibre and based in the UK (Gigaclear). They use CGNAT so I have been having to sort some issues out as I host a few services.
Pretty much everything is sorted and I learned some new stuff along the way (CloudFlare Tunnels, TailScale, ...).
I requested and now have a static IP. Now for my question:
There is a section under WAN titled "WAN Connection Type". Right now I have it set to "Automatic IP". All works fine. I am guessing it works fine as dies not know it is static and just thinks it is an automatic IP and stuff just happens to work. And I am guessing it will keep working fine.
But there is an option to set it to "Static IP". When I do that, I would need to fill in some information.
IP Address: My new static IP
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (I think)
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (my modem IP?) - not sure here...
See attached screenshots.
My questions:
- Is there any advantage or disadvantage to updating this setting?
- How do I figure out what to fill in the slots if I do change it?