Fixed IP for Telkom ADSL?

Many businesses use it to host their websites and email internally instead of paying monthly costs to hosting companies.

There are uncapped Internet Solutions packages that offer 5 static IP addresses.
 
I don't see why anyone needs a static IP. If you don't mind a dyndns hostname, then there's your solution. Why do you want a static IP?
 
JJRM said:
I don't see why anyone needs a static IP. If you don't mind a dyndns hostname, then there's your solution. Why do you want a static IP?
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Mail Marshall solutions usually need a static IP address to send mail to. MWEB offers this service to corporate clients. Provides better protection against spam and when your mail server goes down it doesn't reject email, just queues them.

This is for clients running their own Exchange server internally already.

There's a need for Static IP addresses, just not for the reasons mentioned. Hosting a website and an email server directly like that is just looking for ***.
 
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I'd stay away from the IS accounts that offer static IP addresses. Usually requires a 2 year contract, a Cisco router you're not allowed to administrate yourself and sattelite bandwidth. Meaning, bad weather = no international.

I'm sure openweb had a static IP address thing going at one time that didn't use that. Not sure though.
 
A couple of points:

One the cisco could be a billion now.
Two yes it requires a two year contract which sucks but so do most business cellphones so is rarily an issue.
Three they give you four (one is used for the cisco/billion) real live static ip addresses that you can do whatever you like with (port forward/nat/vpn/run different websites etc) so why would I need access to the router to configure it?
four look I know that satellite affects my DSTV viewing at home in bad weather but I have ***NEVER*** had no international bandwidth on IS Business line due to weather problems and for an extra R 350 they will put you on the fibre backbone. Other problems have caused downtime but never bad weather.

No the issue with IS Business is as follows:

1. You are still dependant on the quality of the adsl line - bad line=bad link and IS are powerless to really help.
2. Expensive - R 1350 exc VAT for 512kb line , R 2700 for 1024kb and R 4050 for a 4096kb line so you can't exactly easily ramp up line speed like a telkom adsl line.
3. Satellite bandwidth is high latency so it affects certain applications like online gaming. Not really noticeable on http/email (slightly longer delay for a page to start loading)
4. Did I mention expensive!
5. You are forced to run your own mail server/run through an alternative service providers mail server. For many businesses this isn't an issue but for someone used to using smtp.saix.net it can come as a shock.
 
IS Business Fibre Capped (slows down to around 128kbs after cap), Billion router, 5 fixed IP's, 1 year contract, R1500 once-off setup cost :
Speed dependent on your telkom dsl line.

5GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R 520.00
10GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R 830.00
30GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R 1,670.00
50GB ADSL Fibre Business Solutions - R 2,610.00
100GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R 5,740.00
150GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R 8,360.00
200GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R10,970.00
300GB ADSL Fibre Business Solution - R15,150.00

*Pricing excludes VAT*
 
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