On 18/07/2021 10:33, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: [snip]
Is there a cost involved in providing a static address, or are UK customers considered to be incapable of safely using a static address? Perhaps it just allows them to charge extra for a "business" broadband.
Back in the days of dial-up, providing a fixed IP address was quite a hard problem to solve, given that each time you dialled in you almost certainly came in on a different modem/port. Most ISPs simply assigned an IP address to each port and thus that's what you got. Demon went to a lot of trouble to switch the routing around for each customer and thus give you a static address.
I suspect that that problem no longer exists, so it's probably just a mechanism to differentiate between cheaper and more expensive packages anyway.
Just another reason not to use BT as an ISP. Go to a serious provider and save yourself infinite amounts of hassle.
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