how to get a static ip?

http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/

Explains how it works pretty much.

TCP/IP as a protocol operates independantly of OS so if you are connecting to a MAC or PC or Linux machine, its all the same in the eyes of TCP/IP. when you type in the dyndns host name, it knows the IP address of your router as your router or a PC within your network runs a dyndns service which updates the website with this information whenever there is an IP change. The dyndns service then forwards your remote desktop request to the IP it holds on file and your router will do the rest of the work. Your brother saying it wont work with MAC remote desktop is talking rubbish, unless someone knows something I dont and cares to share this information. Hope this helps.
 
If it's Sky LLU though, isn't it a 'sticky' IP? I remember Easynet had everyone on sticky/static IPs due to some routing issues, though that was admittedly *way* back and was shortly before the Sky packages were launched.
 
Aekeron said:
If it's Sky LLU though, isn't it a 'sticky' IP? I remember Easynet had everyone on sticky/static IPs due to some routing issues, though that was admittedly *way* back and was shortly before the Sky packages were launched.
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There's been a lot of changes since Sky bought over Easynet and launched their broadband service. I've seen a few ports within exchanges we'd class as sticky but they're looked upon as problematic and are generally resolved with a Tie Pair Shift.

OP - you could try reserving dynamic addresses on your Sky router:

log into the router
Navigate to LAN IP SET UP
Click add under address reservation
On the screen that appears choose the device you want to give a fixed IP to
Select with the radio button to the left
Change the IP if you want/need to
Click add
Click cancel to return to the main screen
Click apply

The device will now always receive that IP address
 
Sonea Fifer said:
There's been a lot of changes since Sky bought over Easynet and launched their broadband service. I've seen a few ports within exchanges we'd class as sticky but they're looked upon as problematic and are generally resolved with a Tie Pair Shift.
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hoho...


OP - you could try reserving dynamic addresses on your Sky router:

log into the router
Navigate to LAN IP SET UP
Click add under address reservation
On the screen that appears choose the device you want to give a fixed IP to
Select with the radio button to the left
Change the IP if you want/need to
Click add
Click cancel to return to the main screen
Click apply

The device will now always receive that IP address
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If it's seriously all on the internal netwrok after all this discussion then I'll be mightily unimpressed.
 
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