That's not a bad shout if it is a one-off £5 for a static IP. Looks like they're OK with using my own router and the prices are good. Are they any good now though?

In reply to a post by sjr:

£32 a month for an excellent 150Mb service and not with one of the big boys, where else can I get that?

£29.99 for 1G/1G with YouFibre here. Of course, that's not with Openreach, but it does demonstrate that competition on the street can reduce prices *and* deliver better service! (sadly, another fiver on top for a static IPv4 address / no CGNAT, but it's still a decent price)

Oh, and their support is top notch. Phone 'em up, answer phone in a few seconds, and can answer questions like "Can you reset the cached MAC on my ONT, please?" without responding with stupid questions about "your wifi is not working?" After years with Vodafone, I *really* appreciate this!

I'm with Plusnet on 500/75 FTTP and it's fine, no problems full speed all the time, use own Asus router.

Unless I missed some posts in the thread and looking at your first post - I'm not sure why you want a static IP? You mention your DDNS was not working which was because of CGNAT, and the whole point of DDNS is for dynamic IPs which is nothing to do with CGNAT. Granted with some ISPs you'd need to pay for static just to get a public IP

Plusnet is IPv4 only with a dynamic public IP and I use DDNS just fine.

Edited by adrenalize_ (Thu 01-Aug-24 21:56:48)

I suppose I should hve caveated that by saying on Openreach, no altnets here. Even getting Openreach fibre was a long term community fibre partnership project. The only altnet anywhere near here is Trooli and they do serve the centre of the village but we're about a mile down a country lane from the village centre and I doubt they have plans to run fibre down to us given that Openreach have.

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4761603-re...

That post explains why DDNS doesn't work on a CGNAT connection and everything a google search I've looked at says the same. DDNS is probably working fine for you because a google search suggests that Plusnet don't use CGNAT.

The irony of course is that if I get a static IP from Giganet I don't really need DDNS but DDNS won't work without one. Should I move to plusnet I won't need a static IP as DDNS will work all the time they're not using CGNAT.

Edited by sjr (Fri 02-Aug-24 09:11:23)

Lots of good providers out there that don't use CGNAT on the Openreach network, any of them is going to be better than the Giganet CGNAT solution.

I suspect Giganet don't really care if you stay or go as they have already laid out their roadmap which doesn't seem to include the Openreach network. I would suggest leaving once you are out of contract.

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

Lots of good providers out there that don't use CGNAT on the Openreach network, any of them is going to be better than the Giganet CGNAT solution.

Mostly the "older" providers have a range of IPv4 addresses from a long time ago before they ran out globally.

Newer providers (such as altnets, or those that operate over Openreach or CityFibre networks) can't get IPv4, so have no choice but to use CGNAT, but they should ALSO provide a public IPv6, those that don't provide IPv6 are to be avoided.

That's my thinking too. Shame though as I prefer the smaller suppliers and the service has been great up until this. Also, they are significantly cheaper than the likes of IDnet, Zen etc.

Edited by sjr (Fri 02-Aug-24 12:12:52)

Paying the £3 for a static IP is alas not an option. I've just spoken to Giganet again and they're saying they now can't do a static IP on a BTW Openreach connection.

In reply to a post by sjr:

Paying the £3 for a static IP is alas not an option. I've just spoken to Giganet again and they're saying they now can't do a static IP on a BTW Openreach connection.

Well that sucks. Would be an immediate termination due to change in supply and a new ISP for me. Bloody [censored] thing for them to do without warning.