Cool Ideas - Static IP Addresss - FTTH

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Hi,

I find it rather hard to justify paying for FTTB in order to get a static IP; with the recent move to remote work (as a Software and DevOps practitioner) I find myself needing a static IP address more than ever.

I am unable to use DynDNS as I need to add my IP to various firewall rules for GCP and various DBaaS products. I also need to be able to setup IPSec VPNs between my home network and VPCs in the Cloud.

I genuinely believe that Cool Ideas should allow people on FTTH to reserve an IP for a monthly fee and not try get customers to move to FTTB which would be overkill for myself as I am just one person on my network, lower contention ratios on FTTB will also not benefit me.

I am sure there are other people who share the same frustrations as I do, even on other ISPs.

Is there anyway for me to do this besides tripling my current monthly installment by moving to FTTB? If not then I would like to ask that you consider the above suggestion.

Kind Regards
 
Which FNO Network are you on?

We are considering adding this as a product but have to go through a development cycle to implement it, as there are considerations for the various different termination options depending on the FNO.
 
I'm in the exact same boat. Need a static IP but FTTB is 3x the price I'm currently paying. A monthly add-on would be great. I'm with Octotel though.
 
Same position, will be on MetroFiber...
This is actually going to be urgent once I switch (next 2 months), as I have it on my ADSL atm through my current ISP. if you don't have this option, I might have to swing ADSL to fiber on current ISP until you can provide. @PBCool

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Yeah Iv been asking the same on support with no direct answer. We on Balwin Fiber and this would be so much more ideal than grabbing my new IP every so often.
 
It's strange but I can comment since going sudo static IP via Axxess at the moment external published services I have via CloudFlare have gone allot more stable.

So this will be a decider for me, I want to be on CISP, but will have to wait until they provide static IP for home user.

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i know if you have got MFN as your FNO and ISP they will give you a static IP had them do that for me before I moved to Cool Ideas.

Just usually need to call them and say I want to portward some ports and bam they sticky it
 
@PBCool I know its only the first but is this product offering looking feasible still for early this year? Any trial we can be involved in or is it just a matter of waiting for the product on our portals?
 
Yeah product has been defined and implementation will happen during the first quarter of this year.
 
TheRoDent said:
Yeah product has been defined and implementation will happen during the first quarter of this year.
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... I will switch to fiber using my current ISP, just be a smoother experience, and then switch to CISP... but that gives you too March... to get this resolved as a static IP requirements is a requirement... I'm not going back to Dynamic, had to many problems.
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I can't wait for this. :cool: Then I can finally move my locally hosted DNS service to the cloud and only allow queries for one static IP.
 
Cactus said:
I can't wait for this. :cool: Then I can finally move my locally hosted DNS service to the cloud and only allow queries for one static IP.
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Or just run wireguard to your hosted VPS and achieve the same thing now ?
 
eddief1 said:
Or just run wireguard to your hosted VPS and achieve the same thing now ?
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My set-up is a little more tricky than that, but I'm actually busy looking into using WireGuard straight from Mikrotik.
 
eddief1 said:
Or just run wireguard to your hosted VPS and achieve the same thing now ?
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So I spent some time and did this, works really well, actually. The cloud vm is part of the LAN network now on router level. Thanks for the suggestion!

Edit: Still want a static IP eventually though.
 
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