Missed the OP location as I don't normally check on the poster's profile (maybe because I assume that everyone is a paranoid as I am so gives as little information away in profile details as possible).

Well, the games are nothing that requires specific IP or have any issues like that from what I understand with CGNAT. But the constant CAPTCHA popping up everywhere might be annoying. So I may just plop down for the public IP for the extra £5 a month to help avoid that. Already get a few of those with BT right now, so I can imagine how annoying increased amounts of that popping up would end up being like.

Thanks for raising that up. Will help me budget everything out.

Aye, I am indeed in London, I apologise for not putting that in the original post to help make the questions more concise to this region.

And, I don't think it's a matter of paranoia really. As identity theft and other things associated with that is a real thing. I think I left the city in simply because of when I joined and it was less of a deal putting it up, since the username is not a real person, and thus less of an issue if that is known (so long as it helps others help diagnose issues in places such as here that is. )

Personally, I'd hope Openreach would change their minds about this area sooner too, but I'm happy given the current situation now I know from all the wonderful answers here that I'm not losing out on anything really by dropping BT and not having Openreach FttP available yet when I now have access to Hyperoptic.

J1NG

edited

Incidentally, I've updated connection details, as Virgin.net hasn't been a thing for a long while now for dsl, and certainly not been on 8mb download for a while either.

Edited by J1NG (Thu 26-Aug-21 00:39:42)

I believe BT and other providers also use CGNAT on some tiers.

A lot of mainstream website support IPv6 now so shared IP side effects are dwindling.

Gone postal you post is misinfomation or disinformation

most of the one you make reference to were where operators did not do OMR did not look at commercial plans or have wild conspiracy theories that Openreach just sit and wait till someone announces and then rocks up -- clearly someone who has not idea about the lead time and build time required of a FTTP network

dont believe everything you read

In reply to a post by Cockroach:

I believe BT and other providers also use CGNAT on some tiers.

I've never heard of BT using CGNAT on any of their fixed line products.

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

Gone postal you post is misinfomation or disinformation

Pot kettle black comes to mind.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

I've never heard of BT using CGNAT on any of their fixed line products.

Hmm, can only find reference to trials in 2013. Must have been thinking of another major ISP, maybe TalkTalk.

In reply to a post by Fastman3:

Gone postal you post is misinfomation or disinformation

My post is neither misinformation nor disinformation. My post is reporting what has been said on other topics on this forum. Please address the posters in the other topics rather than making rash statements in this topic.