Fixed IP address

[crudler]

Which of the fibrehood isps offer fixed ips at a reasonable cost.
On adsl I pay an extra 30 bucks for mine so it's not even worth going the dyn dns route.

 

[PBCool]

Which of the fibrehood isps offer fixed ips at a reasonable cost.
On adsl I pay an extra 30 bucks for mine so it's not even worth going the dyn dns route.

I don't think any of them do to be honest, with high capacity fibre and fixed IPs they open up risk of hosted services etc which is not great at the prices ISPs are offering the services for. Hence why on Business Packages fixed IPs are included.

What is the need for a fixed IP and not just do dyn dns?

 

[crudler]

Dyndns requiresan app running on a machine being always on. Its a schlep. It makes Netflix / hulu that bit bit less of a hassle

 

[Sinbad]

Mikrotik ftw
Built in free dynamic dns

 

[koeksGHT]

Mikrotik ftw
Built in free dynamic dns

^

 

[PBCool]

Dyndns requiresan app running on a machine being always on. Its a schlep. It makes Netflix / hulu that bit bit less of a hassle

Not really, I haven't seen a router that doesn't have a dyn dns client built into it these days?

 

[crudler]

Good point. Mikrotik is way beyond my pay grade. Butill look into what my router can n do

 

[koeksGHT]

Mikrotik is way beyond my pay grade.

R600?

 

[Genisys]

Mikrotik ftw
Built in free dynamic dns

Been using the built in dns for over a year now. just keeps on chugging along.

 

[crudler]

R600?

Configuring them

 

[Genisys]

Configuring them

Its easy. There are a lot of guides on the internet. Google is literally your friend when it comes to this stuff.

 

[koeksGHT]

Its easy. There are a lot of guides on the internet. Google is literally your friend when it comes to this stuff.

It' the old person excuse, it's new and impossible.

 

[stroebs]

It' the old person excuse, it's new and impossible.

But they've been "New and impossible" for 20 years already :O

MikroTik is awesome though, use the buit-in Dynamic DNS and a CNAME to my own domain (eg xyz.stroebs.com) to access it remotely.

 

[Sinbad]

But they've been "New and impossible" for 20 years already :O

MikroTik is awesome though, use the buit-in Dynamic DNS and a CNAME to my own domain (eg xyz.stroebs.com) to access it remotely.

Exactly how I do it

 

[stroebs]

Exactly how I do it

Also have some impossible housemates who sap the bandwidth so created a bandwidth usage script (or collection of scripts) to monitor the stats: http://usage.stroebs.com/ (Thanks MikroTik)

@OP: the fibre ISP I worked for previously offered the service (although hesitant to do so) at R50/month per usable IP. Perhaps worth logging a support call with the ISP of your choice to see if they do so and at what cost.

 

[crudler]

Thanks. Ill ask around

 

[Bosvark@]

Think Telkom has this option for R50 monthly

 

[Thor]

What does it cost a isp to give a user a fixed IP?

 

[koeksGHT]

What does it cost a isp to give a user a fixed IP?

Nothing, it is merely an assignment of static rather than pool. It's the fact ISP's don't want users hosting services on home packages.

 

[Thor]

Nothing, it is merely an assignment of static rather than pool. It's the fact ISP's don't want users hosting services on home packages.

That's what I thought I could never fathom why it's not optional upon signing up to be given the option to receive a static IP with the package.