Virgin Broadband Question

Moley

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I am moving house next month and will probably be migrating from Sky TV/BT Telephone/ADSL24 Broadband to Virgin Media - as the current tenants have Virgin Cable already.

Opportunity to get away from BT is great as they have been really rubbish at customer service for us, not too bothered about Sky or Cable as I don't watch much TV - but the Mrs does.

However I use the internet a lot - indeed I am a bit of a techie and at the moment use all cisco kit in the house for my networking - 837 Router for the ADSL, Pix firewall and Aironet wireless.

What I am interested in knowing from someone who is with Virgin already and knows abit about networking is can they provide you with Static IPs? - I currently have 6 (4 usable).

This will obviously determine whether or not I continue using my existing network hardware (with the exception of the 837 obviously) or simplify it all.

Thanks
 
Not 100% certain on this but I think this would be how it goes.

Residential Services - Dynamic IP (but unless your cable modem goes off for quite a while you will keep your 1 dynamic ip for ages - had mine 6 months+)

Business Service - You could ask for Static IP's but the business service will cost you considerably more for the same speed etc
 
IIIRC Virgin supply a "sticky" IP to residential customers, basically you tend to get the same one for months at a time unless your modem is off for a long time, changed, or they do network upgrades etc.

I think for business customers you can get a fixed IP (not sure if you get more than one), but tend to pay more for a slower speed, however from memory they don't throttle buisiness lines and give a better modem etc.
 
I moved from 4Mb ADSL with a /32s, a /30, a /29 and a /27 subnet supplied to my Cisco 1841 to 20Mb Virgin with a "sticky" WAN IP.

I manage to migrate out stuff I could not longer use (my authoritive name servers) and NAT the rest via the sticky WAN. It's not ideal, but it works for me.

Also, how did you manage to get 6 with 4 usable?? Are you sure it wasn't a /29 - 8 IPs, losing 1 to the network, 1 to the broadcast and 1 for the gateway/router giving you 5 usable?
 
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PistolPete said:
Also, how did you manage to get 6 with 4 usable?? Are you sure it wasn't a /29 - 8 IPs, losing 1 to the network, 1 to the broadcast and 1 for the gateway/router giving you 5 usable?
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Yes I stand corrected - I miscounted. :)

By the way are you using a Cisco now you are on virgin or do you still have to use their provided modem. I'm guessing I could get a DOCSIS compliant 800 series if I switch over - but I'll only bother if I can get it cheap off the bay.
 
I use my standard virgin motorolla modem (its probably changed now). I've been with telewest/virgin for years, probably nearly 10 now. I use a bandwidth speed site which records and logs your speeds by your IP address. I have records in there which are over a year old. I think you shouldn't have much of a problem. I remember using a piece of software once which gave me an IP address that forwarded to my PC, I can't remember what its called.
 
They don't give static IPs but people are right you can keep them for some time if you keep the Modem on but eventually it will change.
 
As mentioned above, Virgin Cable broadband is provided with a dynamic IP, but as long as the modem is not switched off for long periods of time the IP remains the same. I have had the same IP for almost 18 months
 
Moley said:
By the way are you using a Cisco now you are on virgin or do you still have to use their provided modem. I'm guessing I could get a DOCSIS compliant 800 series if I switch over - but I'll only bother if I can get it cheap off the bay.
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You have to use the modem you're provided with. IIRC you can talk the 837 into using the console port as an ethernet WAN interface (which you could connect the modem to).
 
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