Static IP

Is it possible to get a Static IP address from BT on their home FTTP 300Mbs service?

Edited by Fumbledore (Mon 30-Sep-19 17:34:37)

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Is it possible to get a Static IP address from BT on their home FTTP 300Mbs service?

Nope.
They don't offer a static IP option at all to residential customers, not even available as a paid for add-on.

Does 3 months uptime count as static?

And that router reboot was only due to firmware upgrade

Edited by bedrock (Mon 30-Sep-19 18:15:54)

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Does 3 months uptime count as static?

No. Not in the slightest.

I'd describe it as "sticky" at best.

It's no reassurance to someone who requires a static IP that it might not change for a while, especially if that change breaks things.

In reply to a post by bedrock:

Does 3 months uptime count as static?

And that router reboot was only due to firmware upgrade

Not really LOL

I know the last several blocks of IPv6 addresses I have been given are flagged as Static IP's, sadly these change so fast LOL

Paul

In reply to a post by Fumbledore:

Is it possible to get a Static IP address from BT on their home FTTP 300Mbs service?

The answers you've received are "no", but you still have some other options.

You could buy the AAISP L2TP service for £10/month. Although there are traffic speed and volume limitations, you could use the AAISP address for incoming access to your servers, while outbound uses your native dynamic IPs. You might need to do a bit of funky policy routing to get the return traffic sent the right way.

You could take a cloud VPC on a static IP for £5-£10 per month, run a tunnel from your home network to it (e.g. Wireguard or OpenVPN), and reverse port forward your incoming traffic.

If you only want static IPv6 then you could use the tunnelbroker.net service from Hurricane Electric (for free). It's a bit cheeky to use them even though you already have native IPv6. Again, I'd only use the HE addresses for inbound connections.

Or you could wait until the end of your contract and move to Zen, or one of various business-focussed ISPs like Cerberus, Aquiss etc. Cerberus include one static IPv4, and extra ones are £1/month.

Or maybe use Dynamic DNS?
I use a free one and can then use the domain name for things like OpenVPN and the Thinkbroadband BQM

In reply to a post by candlerb:

You could buy the AAISP L2TP service for £10/month. Although there are traffic speed and volume limitations, you could use the AAISP address for incoming access to your servers, while outbound uses your native dynamic IPs. You might need to do a bit of funky policy routing to get the return traffic sent the right way.

I did that for a bit, then realised for less money I could also get an non-UK IP address, so I went with:

In reply to a post by candlerb:

You could take a cloud VPC on a static IP for £5-£10 per month, run a tunnel from your home network to it (e.g. Wireguard or OpenVPN), and reverse port forward your incoming traffic.

I have a $5 Linode virtual machine (I also use Linode for some other VMs).

OpenVPN can be kind if a pain to setup, I used this handy script to make it extremely painless to get working:

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

Be aware though if you use that script that it makes choices that make it a tiny bit less secure than it could otherwise be (generating all the certs, including CA, on the the OpenVPN server itself being the main issue).

When you need static IP, you tend to really need it though.

Things like connecting to work VPNs/servers. Where access is sometimes whitelisted by IP address. Dynamic DNS can't help you with that unfortunately.

I wouldn't even describe as sticky, it was said tongue in cheek, when I had a DSL service, I was lucky to go 24hrs without a disconnect and reconnect. However with my FTTP service on the other hand, I've only had disconnect/reconnect events when I've initiated them.

I obvisuoly do have a dynamic IP address because thats all BT offer, however with dynamic DNS, I personally dont have a need for fully static.