With Aquiss, yes. A static IPv4, and they're about to dish out an IPv6 /56 PD as default (previously opt-in; I'd enabled mine anyway)
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I'm showing my lack of knowledge now, but what's the advantage to a fixed IP from the ISP.
If you manage firewalls for people they can allow your IP to connect remotely while keeping it shut for everybody else coming in from the WAN, it's easier to VPN back to your own network with a static IP etc.
Static IPs have become more relevant in the past few years with the rise of altnets because often while you might not need a static IP, you don't want a CGNAT one, but lots of providers don't offer a public but not-static option because it would be a bit pointless, so people buy static IPs to get a 'real' one.
Static IPs have become more relevant in the past few years with the rise of altnets because often while you might not need a static IP, you don't want a CGNAT one, but lots of providers don't offer a public but not-static option because it would be a bit pointless, so people buy static IPs to get a 'real' one.
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Woke up to no internet this morning, it's amazing the chaos this causes.
Put in the new details restarted the router and it worked.
But speed hasn't increased still 70mb rather than the 300. Restarted the ONT as well.
Left them a support ticket, but is this just something that might change through the day as the service is fully switched or should it just instantly work.
Edit: Martin got back incredibly quickly and asked if I had any QOS enabled. Sure enough I did and it was locking it down to 75/20, called Smart Queues in Unifi. Disabled that and I have 309/47 now.
Put in the new details restarted the router and it worked.
But speed hasn't increased still 70mb rather than the 300. Restarted the ONT as well.
Left them a support ticket, but is this just something that might change through the day as the service is fully switched or should it just instantly work.
Edit: Martin got back incredibly quickly and asked if I had any QOS enabled. Sure enough I did and it was locking it down to 75/20, called Smart Queues in Unifi. Disabled that and I have 309/47 now.
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I never had it enabled.
It wouldn’t just enable smart queues by itself though.
It doesn't I had it enabled from my previous 75mb service, it made watching TV a lot better when I was also downloading stuff.
I'd just forgot it's set to the line speed.
The speed of reply and accuracy was impressive.
BT would have taken days to reply and just pointed me to some FAQ.
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Mine changed ~2am Nov 19th without additional notification from Aquiss.
Edit: not important but nice to see services like speedtest recognise the IPs as Aquiss now:
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Yep mine ended up going through a few days ago in the very early hours. All good. I've got my new IPv6 allocation too, so I'll have to look at getting that turned back on on my network.Mine changed ~2am Nov 19th without additional notification from Aquiss.
Edit: not important but nice to see services like speedtest recognise the IPs as Aquiss now:
Did anyone else have an email about static IPs this morning? Mine said they're increasing the cost of the static /29 allocation to (iirc) £16 a month for legacy customers from next year. I'll be with YouFibre by then (I've been bumping the install date while we complete renovations), but since it hasn't been posted here I thought I'd give it a mention.
I assumed they dropped /29 for new customers as it doesn't show up as an option in my account.
One thing I have noticed a few times is I get a lot of sites thinking I'm a bot. I was searching for some Mellanox firmware yesterday and after some time the site started giving me permission denied or similar. Went onto a work VPN and it came back to life. There's another forum I'm on and I'm constantly getting Cloudflare 'verify you're human' messages. I've also had it on Ticketmaster with it detecting I'm a bot, again switch to a VPN or use mobile data and all good.
One thing I have noticed a few times is I get a lot of sites thinking I'm a bot. I was searching for some Mellanox firmware yesterday and after some time the site started giving me permission denied or similar. Went onto a work VPN and it came back to life. There's another forum I'm on and I'm constantly getting Cloudflare 'verify you're human' messages. I've also had it on Ticketmaster with it detecting I'm a bot, again switch to a VPN or use mobile data and all good.
Yeah I was just thinking this morning I’ve noticed that happening more recently.
That's refreshing to know, in that it's not a 'me' issue. I've dropped them an email to ask about it.