Uses of Dynamic IP Address
- Most residential and corporate customers’ routers are allocated a dynamic public IP address by their internet service providers.
- Larger businesses often have static IP addresses issued to them and exclusively to them rather than utilising dynamic IP numbers to connect to the internet.
- Most devices are most likely set up for DHCP, or dynamic IP addresses, on a local network, such as the one at your house or place of business, where you use a private IP address.
- Every device connected to your home network would need to have its network settings manually configured if DHCP wasn’t enabled.
What is a Dynamic IP Address?
A Dynamic IP address is an IP address that shifts from time to time than a static IP address. Most Networks in homes are expected to have a dynamic IP address and the reason for this is because it is cost adequate for Internet Service Providers to allocate dynamic IP addresses to their customers.
Your IP address is pulled from a pool of addresses and then assigned to your home network by your ISP, as opposed to one IP address that is always assigned to your home network—a Static IP address. You are given a new IP address and that IP address is returned to the pool after a few days, weeks, or even months.