How to have a static IP address free

[igotout]

I am sure there are other ways to do this but the one that I like is no-ip.com

www.no-ip.com

For this to work you have to have a small program running in the background (as a service) which constantly monitors your dynamic IP and updates it at their servers to give you your unchanging IP address in the form of something like

johnathome.no-ip.com

I use a static IP address for PC Anywhere access between computers and to be able to listen to our entire MP3 music collection from any computer in the world with an Internet connection (and speakers of course).

I suppose you could also host your own website with this little program in action.

Any comments?

[Bluzeman]

I've never used any of those services as I have always had multiple static ip addresses (benefit of writing software for my dsl provider:)-->). But I have a friend who has been using dyndns for a while now and it seems to work very well. It's at http://www.dyndns.com .

Rick