Only the FAI who own the IP adresses can choose for you. Choosing between IP Fixed IP and dynamic?
• First of all, having a fixed IP address ease hackers to detect you as your machine is constantly at a specific IP address compared to dynamic IP which is changed constantly. • Having a fixed IP can make attempts to your private life in the sense even if you change your pseudonyms for a specific reason, your IP address will be refer to the same which will be easily detected. • Nowadays it is not necessary to know its IP address for connecting to your computer from the internet. You can use a dynamic DNS service (dyndng.org, no-ip.com, etc.), by associate a name to your fixed IP address for each connection. These services are usually free. As done usually, instead of connecting on an address such as 12.34.56.78, you connect to an address type mylogin.dyndns.org. You will no more have to memorize in advance the IP address!
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