Benefit of a static ip

[cryptmagic]

I currently have a high speed cable modem serivice that gives me a static ip address. They have offered me the same service, but with a dynamic ip. I was wondering if i take them up on there offer will my internet slow down, or become less reliable? I have a lot of comptuers in my home, and use bit torrent. I recently looked at my dlink router and saw it was on the same ip for the last 21 days. So will my quality degrade?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Static or dynamic IP is irrelevant of the amount of bandwidth.

The only thing it usually will impact, is if you're trying to run some services publically available, such as a mail server, web server, game server, VPN host, etc. But you can work around that with dynamic dns services.

[trogers]

If you are a private user and do not need a static IP address, you should keep your connection dynamic to minimise security headache - a chance for hackers to zero in on your connection. It is even good practice to power off your modem once a day or at most once in 2 days to obtain a new IP address.

[cryptmagic]

Yeah other then internet browsing, bit torrent, sling box, and playing xbox games, i dont use it for vpn or running servers. So i will probably call them to change over.

Thanks