The guy who installed our CCTV Cameras and the DVR said the cameras should work on dynamic IP. I just hope they do so I can look on the camera app. I’ve phoned EE no end of times and they just tell me same stuff ‘we don’t give static to residentials, I said but more people are having CCTV not just businesses.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Yes I have EE FTTP.

I run CCTV but mine record to a local Synology NAS, which has its own cloud-based remote access. My other remote access and site-to-site connectivity is all done via ZeroTier.

Edit - to be fair the CCTV cameras I use also have their own independent cloud connectivity - both Reolink and HIK-Vision have cloud based viewing / control apps. So I have two (or three ways) I can see / access any of those cameras.

How do you find EE? What’s your views on it?

EE residential don’t offer static IP. That is a certainty.

As noted fixed IP addressing is *not at all* a firm requirement for either remote access or remotely viewable CCTV / monitoring or for that matter many mass market smart home services or devices in this day and age.

There’s many many examples I could quote, but probably the most obvious is Ring type smart doorbells. How many millions of those are installed and working on all manner of connections.

You don’t need and shouldn’t need to have static IP for this purpose.

For a mass market ISP, I’ve found the service fine and the performance is fine too.

Well I have a 14 day cooling off period so at least I can test it when it’s active. Sadly Plusnet so longer do Static IP for new customers so I wouldn’t be able to return to them I’d have to look elsewhere for Fibre with Static IP addresses.

As for service I can’t grumble at Plusnet so EE should be the same as they are sisters.

In reply to a post by MapooUK:

I’ve phoned EE no end of times and they just tell me same stuff ‘we don’t give static to residentials, I said but more people are having CCTV not just businesses.

Again, you do not need a static IP to view home CCTV cameras.

Edited by jpm (Sat 18-Jan-25 21:51:17)

In reply to a post by jpm:

In reply to a post by MapooUK:

I’ve phoned EE no end of times and they just tell me same stuff ‘we don’t give static to residentials, I said but more people are having CCTV not just businesses.

Again, you do not need a static IP to view home CCTV cameras.

I've given up commenting as this has been said multiple times on both threads the OP started and he's not heeding (or even acknowledging) the advice being provided by multiple users.