Static IP address ?

[siu4]

Of course it's your business decision, but your 0.001% is so arrogant and untrue😂

[davematthews]

Actually, many people want to do their own email and web, but they actually don't really know what is involved because to do it all; you actually need two IPv4 addresses to deal with the name servers.

I am a residential customer, just off the phone and they said that residential customers CAN get static ip addresses as I've just asked for one and they have added it to my account.

[Kimberlin]

@davematthews  Just so you’re aware, you’ve contributed to a thread in which the last post was almost 18 months ago 👍

[Justin_UK]

i ended up getting a static IP on Plusnet which is odd cause BT at the time refused static ip address

What you will then find is that they ban the ip with spam filters that block your mail getting out, if they even open up the relevant ports.

So finally ended up getting a cheap vps with root access on fasthosts and run my own web hosting and email servers there.

Probably not what you wanted to hear.

[davematthews]

Yeah, I know because it is a subject which I am very interested in and the update is that BT Residential customers can now get a static IP address as I was just off the phone half an hour ago.

[licquorice]

Really? So how much are BT charging and have you received email confirmation?

Are you sure they weren't talking about static private IP addresses rather than public IP addresses.

[imjolly]

@davematthews 

I asked forum mods to check if BT had changed it's position on static IP addresses for residential customers and the answers was  'NO'.  so static IP address not available to residential customers

[licquorice]

As expected.

[milleniumaire]

Static IP addresses are not only useful to the few who may want to setup mail servers etc.  These days, there are many websites I login to, such as American Express, that save your IP address to identify your connection so that you don't have to go through 2FA every time you login.

Unfortunately, this only lasts a short time until BT assigns a new IP address.

If the option was there I would pay a little more to BT residential to have a static IP address.

[gg30340]

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@milleniumairewrote:

Static IP addresses are not only useful to the few who may want to setup mail servers etc.  These days, there are many websites I login to, such as American Express, that save your IP address to identify your connection so that you don't have to go through 2FA every time you login.

Unfortunately, this only lasts a short time until BT assigns a new IP address.

If the option was there I would pay a little more to BT residential to have a static IP address.

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Pay a little bit more and get a BT Business Broadband account if you feel the need for a static IP address because if you have read the thread you will see that BT do not offer it on residential accounts and if it was a good business proposition for them I am sure they would have done so before now.