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Ava

Hi , my up address on my phone cellular without WiFi keeps changing. What causes that?

I haven’t went anywhere and it’s changed to 3 different places that are a fair distance away.

Anyone know?

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  • Ava said:
    my up address on my phone cellular without WiFi keeps changing. What causes that?

    If you are on mobile data rather than connected to WiFi then it is your service provider (O2, Vodafone or whoever) who is doing this. It is done this way because they have more devices connecting than they have IP addresses to allocate to them, so they make them all time lmited so after a few hours if you are not on their network then your IP address can be used by someone else.

    It isn't a trivial thing for them to just get more addresses which is why they do this.

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  • Ava said:
    my up address on my phone cellular without WiFi keeps changing. What causes that?

    If you are on mobile data rather than connected to WiFi then it is your service provider (O2, Vodafone or whoever) who is doing this. It is done this way because they have more devices connecting than they have IP addresses to allocate to them, so they make them all time lmited so after a few hours if you are not on their network then your IP address can be used by someone else.

    It isn't a trivial thing for them to just get more addresses which is why they do this.

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