New network

The new network actually appears to be imminent

More info on the BE forums (forum login required)

https://avatar.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4...

and here

http://beusergroup.co.uk/technotes/index.php?title=N...

The wiki page will be updated once BE provide more info or as customers go live

Looks like the first exchanges to be migrated may be Paddington and North Paddington

More info here including a template of the email being sent out pre-migration

http://beusergroup.co.uk/?id=862

In reply to a post by nredwood:

More info here including a template of the email being sent out pre-migration

http://beusergroup.co.uk/?id=862

Just one point for a single static IP the guide says to select to get dynamically from isp ? if i have a static ip adress i don't get it dynamically i get or should regcieve the new ip adress and other associated details via e-mail before this new network is enabled in my area , it says the same for dns server IP' 's too, but who uses their ISP's dns server these days as most are slow or flakey anyway

Static IP's are to be assigned dynamically, but I believe BE will also email the new details for those that need to reconfigure servers, ACL's etc to do the necessary prep work

The DNS servers can still be overridden in the same way as now and even easier to do with most 3rd party routers

In reply to a post by tommy45:

Just one point for a single static IP the guide says to select to get dynamically from isp ? if i have a static ip adress i don't get it dynamically i get or should regcieve the new ip adress and other associated details via e-mail before this new network is enabled in my area , it says the same for dns server IP' 's too, but who uses their ISP's dns server these days as most are slow or flakey anyway

Most other ISPs providing a single static IP provide it over DHCP as well (you can of course ignore this).

If you don't use your ISPs DNS then its worth googling about the issue of Akamai and other Content Distribution Networks selecting a further away server (ie: slowing down your download). Yes this seems to make no sense as they should be using IP routing - but its worth a google.

In reply to a post by nredwood:

Static IP's are to be assigned dynamically

What is the purpose behind doing that ?

If customers are given the details of their static ip address and all other relevant info in order to manually configure their routers as is currently the way it works after all no point in having a Static IP if it ain't 100% static is there?

In reply to a post by jchamier:

If you don't use your ISPs DNS then its worth googling about the issue of Akamai and other Content Distribution Networks selecting a further away server (ie: slowing down your download). Yes this seems to make no sense as they should be using IP routing - but its worth a google.

Well i have never had the issues that you describe resulting from using other than the flaky ISP dns servers, As for my ignoring the advice about IP over DHCP , if i have all the correct details supplied then i will be able to ignore it, as i will be able to connect using those said details and maintain the setting use static ip , that is currently configured

Edited by tommy45 (Thu 14-Jun-12 00:16:13)

In reply to a post by nredwood:

Static IP's are to be assigned dynamically,

Eh?

BT Business Broadband are certainly one that I am aware of who do this

The way I put it sounds a bit odd admittedly

Static IP's will be assigned by DHCP would be a better way of putting it

I'm not certain about whether IP info will be provided

Also, it is quite clear you have not read the Wiki

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ALL customers are forced to use DHCP for IP allocation. You CANNOT force an IP on your router, it must obtain it from BE even if you are a static IP customer.

You can ignore it, but it then won't work