In my case, from the first call that they were cancelling my installation visit until the 6 days spent by VZ restoring my static IP address, I also spent two days with no phone service on two phone lines and two different days without service on the other two lines.

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Sprint Static IP assigns the same IP address to a device each time that device authenticates and accesses the Internet.

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If a wireless printer defaults to dynamic IP address assignment, yet the Windows network printer protocol expects printer IP addresses to remain static, how are they supposed to keep their printer running?

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