On Sunday, 18 July 2021 11:03:06 BST John Winters via GLLUG wrote: > On 18/07/2021 10:33, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: > [snip] > > > Is there a cost involved in providing a static address, or are UK > > customers > > considered to be incapable of safely using a static address? Perhaps it > > just allows them to charge extra for a "business" broadband. > > Back in the days of dial-up, providing a fixed IP address was quite a > hard problem to solve, given that each time you dialled in you almost > certainly came in on a different modem/port. Most ISPs simply assigned > an IP address to each port and thus that's what you got. Demon went to > a lot of trouble to switch the routing around for each customer and thus > give you a static address.
Yes, I joined Demon dial-up, but obtained my own domain name then left when they were sold. > > I suspect that that problem no longer exists, so it's probably just a > mechanism to differentiate between cheaper and more expensive packages > anyway. > > Just another reason not to use BT as an ISP. Go to a serious provider > and save yourself infinite amounts of hassle. > > John I paid a single one-off £5.00 for a static IPv4 address but no IPv6 from Plusnet (now owned by BT), but am less bothered now as my websites and emails are handled by Mythic-Beasts, with CA certificates, and a low total cost including the Plusnet charges. A friend living in a Grosvenor Estate flat in Westminster is now delighted to have the output of a RaspberryPi on his 40 inch TV with full fibre to the flat provided by CommunityFibre at £24.00, less an agreed discount because he is 96. He has a 192.168.0.0/16 address but I have yet to discover whether his IPv6 address is actually static. -- Chris Bell Website chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
