8 static ips?
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If you don't know why then you clearly don't need them. 
It's useful in certain situations - say you have a bunch of PCs and you don't want to use NAT in order to avoid port forwarding. You could allocate a game server one IP address, you could allocate your own PC an IP and you could allocate one to anything else you wanted - Xbox 360 for example. Or if you had a web/FTP/whatever else server, you could give that its own dedicated IP address.
You'd get 5 usable out of an 8 block so if you've got a few PCs you don't want to use NAT on then go for it
It's useful in certain situations - say you have a bunch of PCs and you don't want to use NAT in order to avoid port forwarding. You could allocate a game server one IP address, you could allocate your own PC an IP and you could allocate one to anything else you wanted - Xbox 360 for example. Or if you had a web/FTP/whatever else server, you could give that its own dedicated IP address.
You'd get 5 usable out of an 8 block so if you've got a few PCs you don't want to use NAT on then go for it
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Don't know why you specifically need the NTL Staic IP Address, but here are a few things that are worth noting. I am on NTL in Brighton and these are the tricks I use.
First - never turn off your router. I can keep the same IP Address for 6 months or even longer. It will keep renewing at the same address. Pretty handy.
More useful is http://www.dyndns.com/ as this is a free system that lets you get a free (sub-)domain name pointing at your home IP Address. It is very easy to keep up to date with a script, or a quick logon to the site's control panel. I have noticed that some Netgear and Linksys routers are coming with this feature already built in.
You could then use something like http://ibot.homeip.net to always locate your home server.
(N.B. The "free" system needs to be updated once a month. But for only a few quid, you can subscribe and not have to keep updating. If you want to rely on your Netgear/Linksys router to auto-update, then you need to pay a subscription otherwise it doesn't know to check in with the server once a month....)
First - never turn off your router. I can keep the same IP Address for 6 months or even longer. It will keep renewing at the same address. Pretty handy.
More useful is http://www.dyndns.com/ as this is a free system that lets you get a free (sub-)domain name pointing at your home IP Address. It is very easy to keep up to date with a script, or a quick logon to the site's control panel. I have noticed that some Netgear and Linksys routers are coming with this feature already built in.
You could then use something like http://ibot.homeip.net to always locate your home server.
(N.B. The "free" system needs to be updated once a month. But for only a few quid, you can subscribe and not have to keep updating.
If you want to rely on your Netgear/Linksys router to auto-update, then you need to pay a subscription otherwise it doesn't know to check in with the server once a month....)