Static IP ADSL service from OpenWeb (capped)

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New per GB static IP ADSL service

Openweb launches per GB static IP ADSL solution starting at R629 per month aimed at both residential and business customers.

"The new packages allow users to make use of their own Routers but still be able to have a Static IP," said Openweb founder Keoma Wright.
 
That has to be one of the most stupid services that I have ever seen.

If you want a static IP address, and are prepared to operate it using a VPN, fine. Sign up with a VPN provider who will give you a static IP address.

But why be stupid and link the bandwidth to that address? All you are doing is "backsliding" to the bad old days when bandwidth was R70/GB.

If you don't need uncapped, get your bandwidth from Afrihost at R29/GB. Then run your VPN on top of that.

Granted, it makes sense to get the VPN service from the bandwidth provider, to avoid additional latency (and it saves the VPN service provider from paying for duplicate traffic, and consequently lowers costs).

Personally, I'd wait until one of the service providers allocated genuine static IP addresses based on the credentials of the user (and the telephone exchange that they are connected to, perhaps).
 
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RoganDawes said:
Personally, I'd wait until one of the service providers allocated genuine static IP addresses based on the credentials of the user (and the telephone exchange that they are connected to, perhaps).
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Telkom's network does not support that in any way or form. For now this is the only way you will get a fixed IP. The other fixed IP products work in the same way - they just hide the 'VPN' inside a locked down router so that you don't know its there ;)
 
ambo said:
Telkom's network does not support that in any way or form. For now this is the only way you will get a fixed IP. The other fixed IP products work in the same way - they just hide the 'VPN' inside a locked down router so that you don't know its there ;)
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I find that quite surprising. If you have an IPConnect pipe, don't you get control over the addresses issued to your users? It certainly seems that way, with e.g. Afrihost (IS?) addresses being very different from MWeb address ranges, etc.

Ultimately, all it is is setting up each end of a PPPoE connection. Why should it be so difficult to choose which addresses you allocate to each user based on the userid, rather than selecting them from a pool?
 
RoganDawes said:
I find that quite surprising. If you have an IPConnect pipe, don't you get control over the addresses issued to your users? It certainly seems that way, with e.g. Afrihost (IS?) addresses being very different from MWeb address ranges, etc.
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When you deploy services over IP-connect you provide Telkom with your address block. That address block is then distributed in chucks at random across the network. Each new PPPoE connection is then randomly assigned an address from the block. There is no way to designate what IP address any particular connection gets assigned.
 
ambo said:
When you deploy services over IP-connect you provide Telkom with your address block. That address block is then distributed in chucks at random across the network. Each new PPPoE connection is then randomly assigned an address from the block. There is no way to designate what IP address any particular connection gets assigned.
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Ok, I defer to superior knowledge! :-)

I was under the impression that depending on size, ISP's could provide their own RADIUS servers (see this link). RADIUS has the ability to return the IP address that should be allocated to the user, and I thought that this was the mechanism that the larger ISP's were using to select their own IP address ranges that we have seen so far.

From what you say, it seems like Telkom does not honour this mechanism, resulting in the hoops that people are being forced to jump through in order to get a static address.

Sad, very sad. But typical for Telkom, I guess. :cry:
 
So this is basically like the uncapped business IS accounts...but per GB. The only real benefit is I presume the VPN server is hosted locally therefore low latency...

Still I have never liked tunnelling over a VPN to get an IP....especially for mission critical aps, and these should not be hosted on the backend of an ADSL line anyway.

The only real thing I use a VPN service for is to get certain US only content.
 
if they offered 5 public addresses, sure okay. But with 1 static you can do the same with dyndns and in almost 10 years never seen it go down. The only issue being hosted internationally and if you reach your cap you MIGHT be buggered if you restart your router but for that price, Jirre!
 
RoganDawes said:
From what you say, it seems like Telkom does not honour this mechanism, resulting in the hoops that people are being forced to jump through in order to get a static address.
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Pretty much :) If you put an IP in the RADIUS response it simply gets dropped by the Telkom servers.
 
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