Making a permanant IP address

I use dial up and my ip changes all the time. Here is what I read from an article.

Disabling Automatic Private IP Addressing

By default, the Automatic Private IP Addressing feature is enabled. However, you can disable this feature by adding the IPAutoconfigurationEnabled value to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic
es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\Adapter subkey of the registry and setting its value to 0.

Will that enable me to use an unchanging permanant ip for my int connection if I specify an IP address in network?

 

No, when you make a connection to your ISP you are assigned an IP address from them. You can purchase a static IP to use on the Internet but it's not worth it for a dial-up connection (IMO).

cheers

 

I have free internet access from my wife's college. They would probably not sell it to me but give it to me for free. Do you think?

 

Has nothing to do with the "real" IP address your computer has. Private IP addresses are those that can be used on a personal network and are never assigned as legit IP addresses.

For one thing, the internet routers will not pass any addresses in the private ranges
10.x.x.x Class A
172.16.x.x-172.31.x.x Class B
192.168.x.x Class C

For another - even if they did somehow pass a private address, it would blow up since there would be multiple computers with the same IP assigned and that isn't going to work. It would be just like having two or three or eighty five
123 Cherry Lane, Concord, NC 28025 addresses.
The postman would get very confused.

If you are on a private network, you can do the job more easily by simply assigning an IP address. That effectively disables the automatic assignment.