I'm with Plusnet and found I couldn't access any sites / email for a while.
Eventually I had a look at my routers (Vigor 2600) online status page and
noticed my static IP address had changed. After a reboot all was back to
normal including the IP address.

Out of curiosity how would this address have changed?

Cheers

Steven.

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:01:47 -0000, Steven Campbell
<newsgroup@pTHREEasa.co.uk> wrote:

If the connection is dropped from us but you are still connected to BT,
you can get assigned a BT test IP address, which cannot be used for
browsing/email etc. When you disconnected and reconnected it will have
authenticated with us and given you your normal IP address.

The dropping connection was most likely to have been caused by the load
balancing we did today, please see http://status.plus.net for more
information.


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