Constantly changing url address

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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My MyCloud device keeps changing its url address every 4 months or so. I’m not sure why as nothing is really changing with the drive itself. I do complete the software updates but the address doesn’t change then.

Is there any reason behind this or how to get it to stop?

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Most likely because your ISP changes your IP address. You do know that ISPs don’t assign a permanently static IP address, right? 

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What part of the URL is changing?

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Cybernut1 & TonyPh12345,

Thank you both for taking the time to answer this. As I’m not a huge IT person I know enough to get me through the day, so I will answer the best I can.

I know I don’t get a static IP address at my house, but I figured the MyCloud device would. I’m guessing now that is incorrect.

The URL i’m taking about is the 192,ect. Number you type in the address bar to access the dashboard. Basically the same thing as double clicking the dashboard link on the desktop.

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The 192.168… that is your internal network’s IP address. That IP is assigned by your network router at home. The non-static IP that your ISP assigns you is your external IP. The world outside your home (the Internet) only sees your external IP - and if you were to connect from outside your home that’s the IP you would use. They don’t see your internal IP (192.168…) - the internal IPs are only visible to devices within your home network and those devices like say the My Cloud and your computer (when you are at home) talk to each other using the internal network IP addresses.

It’s kind of confusing, to me at least, what your exact issue is without a more detailed description from you. Just want to say, your internal IP should usually stay same when accessing from your internal network if you don’t shut down the My Cloud device. Once you shut it down, the next time it reboots, it may or may not be assigned a different IP by your router. If your main issue is that the 192.168… address that you use to access the dashboard keeps changing every now and then - then that is because your router assigns the device a new internal IP everytime you rebooted either your router or your My Cloud…and to stop that from happening you need to assign a static IP on your router for your My Cloud.

To assign a static IP - google to lookup the manual for your specific model of router and then look in it to see how to do that. But I am not sure if that is what you are really trying to solve…as I am not sure if you are talking about URL when accessing from outside the network (outside home) or inside the network (within home)…because it could mean you are either talking about external IP (assigned by ISP) or the internal IP (assigned by your router).