FTTH - Do you get NAT'd IP or can one get a static IP?

[shadow_man]

As per the title can you get a static IP or do you get a NAT'd IP forced on you?

Thanks.

 

[stricken]

You can get statics from most ISPs.. at a cost (as for some reason you are then considered a business)..

 

[coop]

I'm with Vumatel and Cool Ideas. To get a static IP requires a business package (which is significantly more expensive). But the IP you get does not change often. To be honest, unless your wanting to run a mail server over the fiber, or maybe a high traffic website, you don't need a static IP. I've had 2 different IP's the whole time I've had my connection (about 6 months). The IP is a real internet facing IP, not an internal IP.

 

[shadow_man]

I'm with Vumatel and Cool Ideas. To get a static IP requires a business package (which is significantly more expensive). But the IP you get does not change often. To be honest, unless your wanting to run a mail server over the fiber, or maybe a high traffic website, you don't need a static IP. I've had 2 different IP's the whole time I've had my connection (about 6 months). The IP is a real internet facing IP, not an internal IP.

OK - so it's not NAT'd - just dynamic?

 

[Mr Scratch]

OK - so it's not NAT'd - just dynamic?

On Vumatel and Openserve you get a dynamic IP, former being closer to static as it only ever changes when Vumatel change it while the latter follows the same principle as xDSL where your IP generally changes each time you reboot.

 

[shadow_man]

On Vumatel and Openserve you get a dynamic IP, former being closer to static as it only ever changes when Vumatel change it while the latter follows the same principle as xDSL where your IP generally changes each time you reboot.

Awesome news then. I'll just do some dyndns via API or some such and update it like that

 

[Mr Scratch]

Awesome news then. I'll just do some dyndns via API or some such and update it like that

Cloudflare makes that super easy, but yeah any dyndns provider should work.

 

[shadow_man]

Cloudflare makes that super easy, but yeah any dyndns provider should work.

DO has API calls and you can update DO DNS via API - i'll probably just do that. Easy and it just works (tm)

 

[coop]

OK - so it's not NAT'd - just dynamic?

That's correct, the IP you get is just dynamic. But of course, if you connect a router, then the router will NAT the traffic, as obviusly it would be pointless having the router if you didn't want multiple devices behind the IP.

 

[coop]

Awesome news then. I'll just do some dyndns via API or some such and update it like that

Personally, I use https://www.namecheap.com/ for my domain which uses the Enom DDNS servers, so you can just update the domain directly. I have an update script that runs on my mikrotik to perform the updates.