This has happened to me a few times recently. I have a business broadband service from Tiscali that is supposed to have a static ip address. My router is rebooted every day (actually I switch everything off at night - don't blame me if the planet goes up in smoke) and every now and then I find that my assigned static ip is not what it should be. Usually I discover this at the most inconvenient time, i.e. when I want to use a service or application that depends on the static ip. A few minutes of attempted diagnoses follows until I realise what is going on. So far restarting my router has picked up the ip address I am expecting, but really this just shouldn't happen thank you Tiscali.

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