ISP that offers multiple static IPs?

[xKratosx]

Hi,

My current broadband provider (Be) has just been purchased by Sky and will almost certainly move across to their infastructure, so I'm looking to move asap

A fibre connection would be a huge bonus, but mostly I'm after an unlimited connection (or at the very least generous limits) with multiple static IP addresses

The closest I've found so far are some of the Entanet resellers, but they have quite strict download limits during the day (starting from 30GB per month) which would be easy to break through

Thanks :)

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Dude hold fire.

1) Nothing is happening immediately

2) My money is that Sky will move to BE's proposed fiber infrastructure

3) Sky are (reportedly) nowhere near as bad as they used to be!

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

You aren't going to find many ISPs that offer multiple static IPs to end customers, you'd probably need something more like a business oriented provider for that.

Or go for a provider that offers IPv6, they'll give you more static IPs than there's people on the planet by default (if they're any good)

[xKratosx]

Thanks both, I've looked at a lot of services and the best seems to be BT! ?40 per month for 40mb fibre with unlimited downloads and 5 IP addresses... an extra ?5 for a total of 13 IP addresses.

For 5 IPs it's a bit more than Be, but a *lot* quicker (I get 5mb atm) and should I ever need more IPs (5 is my absolute minimum, but will do the job) I can then switch to a higher amount for less than Be :)

[+Byt Subscriber¹]

Yea you need to go down the business route. BT Business for example do this.

However i have just set a client up with TISCALI (Shock Horror?) well they wouldnt pay over the odds for a good provider. Having said that.... they were given a block of 10 Static IPs and the service is ok.

I would go down BT's route personally.

[theyarecomingforyou]

For what it's worth, I've found Sky to be an excellent ISP. Last month I downloaded over 3TB without any throttling or warnings (there's no fair usage limit) and pings are excellent for gaming. I'm getting a better service now than when I paid for business broadband.

[Haggis Veteran]

I am with Sky too and no complaints here either

[Livin in a box]

Just moved to Sky and had a fair few problems, but their customer service have actually been really good. They haven't messed me around and they are trying to sort my problems out. It's not directly their fault either, I think the house needs a new phone line as it's old and has been causing problems for a while now. Not at all like TalkTalk who would just say that it's my fault.

And I would be vary cautious of BT as I know 2 people in 2 opposite sides of the country and both have had terrible service from BT. One of them is with BT Business but regularly gets overcharged, they refuse, they get poor connection but BT don't do anything about it for a considerable amount of time (this is true for both of my friends).

[theyarecomingforyou]

Not at all like TalkTalk who would just say that it's my fault.

TalkTalk is the worst company I've ever had to deal with. Terrible connection quality, appalling customer service, deceitful business practices, fraudulent billing... just terrible. We eventually moved to another ISP designed for businesses and within a year TalkTalk bought them up and the service immediately went downhill - slow speeds, constant dropped connections, etc. Nearly everybody I know that has used TalkTalk has had a terrible experience with them.

[+BudMan MVC]

So are you running services out of your home? Or is this a business connection? Curious to why the need for multiple ipv4? Business yeah many reasons for it, but in a home - not so much.

If business, I would think you should be on a business class connection that shouldn't have issue with giving you a /29 or /28, etc.

Not going to be much help with ISP in your region but just curious on why 5 is the bare min of statics you need. Maybe if you gave some details of how your using these statics we could fine alternate solutions that would allow for use of just 1?

[xKratosx]

Thank you all very much for the responses guys - I've just spoke with Be, and just like the first few responses to the thread, they've managed to assure me things could be okay and continue as they are right now with the multiple IP addresses so I'm going to stick with them, and yes Bud unfortunately it is for business reasons and 5 is the very minimum I need (servers on virtual machines just for personal use that I remote into/test things on)

It's a shame as I was very much looking forward to BT fibre and the download speeds! Right now I get 5mb which isn't really enough with say 2 of us on iPlayer, but we'll cope. Maybe something positive will come out of it, and Be will retain the multiple IP functionality as well as introducting fibre :D

BT was ?48p/m after tax... quite steep. My only concern is by the time I realise Be/Sky won't be suitable for me, BT may have pulled their IP offer on their business accounts or similar! Then I'd have very, very limited options...

[+BudMan MVC]

"and 5 is the very minimum I need (servers on virtual machines just for personal use that I remote into/test things on)"

Why would you not just vpn in to 1 IP, and then you could access anything on your network with just the one connection and 1 IP in use.

[xKratosx]

Thanks Bud, that's what I did before but for me the added convenience of multiple IP addresses makes it worth the extra cost

[+BudMan MVC]

Even if I had a whole /16, oh wait we do ;) I would still vpn into 1 IP to be able to access my servers ;) Now there are multiple IPs because of multiple locations.

As option to vpn, say you want to be able to RDP directly just forward different ports to the different inside IPs. I personally would never allow rdp to the public net naked. but for example

public:3389 - private1:3389

public:3390 - private2:3389

public:3391 - private3:3389

etc..

Just throwing this out there -- if you can get more bandwidth for same cost or cheaper, and issue is can not have multiple IPs.. Many methods to skin the cat, depending on what your doing 1 IP might be all you need, just change ways you do things.

[xKratosx]

Thanks Bud, that's definitely a good option :) I'm quite stuck in my ways but will definitely give that some thought! Ty

[xKratosx]

Hi guys, me again!

Would be very grateful for some feedback on the three options I have right now:

• BT Broadband @ ?48pm - FTTC so around 50mb/s downloads, should be future proof
  
• Be Broadband @ ?32pm - and hope that Sky doesn't switch off the multiple IP service
  
• Demon Broadband @ ?17pm - like my current broadband, only 5mb downloads, but at half the price
  

Thank you :)

[spikey_richie]

We have 40mb unlimited fibre with Sky, we get around 30mb due to 600m of copper,but that's fine. We pay ?25pcm for that, and it uses a BT OpenZone modem. I don't think you need to move to BT.

[xKratosx]

Thanks spikey, I'm pretty certain that Sky don't offer multiple static IP addresses though unfortunately :(

[xKratosx]

Just spoke to their live chat - nope... d'oh :(

[MattL]

Have a look at PlusNet.