BT Broadband - Static IPs

Tell BT you want an ADSL line with a single static IP bound to it. They should be able to offer that. IF not, i'd cancel under the premis they tried to sell you something you didn't ask for or need and go with another ISP can can. Be for one can, as can Demon. Depending on where you are Star are also good for business.
 
Skidilliplop said:
Tell BT you want an ADSL line with a single static IP bound to it. They should be able to offer that. IF not, i'd cancel under the premis they tried to sell you something you didn't ask for or need and go with another ISP can can. Be for one can, as can Demon. Depending on where you are Star are also good for business.
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Ok will give that a go - I do have another ADSL line here, we just don't have a socket on that line yet , got it running straight into the phone system :p

That's with fast.co.uk
 
OoOverclockaoO said:
Ok will give that a go - I do have another ADSL line here, we just don't have a socket on that line yet , got it running straight into the phone system :p

That's with fast.co.uk
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If you have a line with another ISP, use that. ***k BT. If you're in london as your avatar space states you should be able to go LLU easily. This would be much much better as you will get better service and support. Someone like Star would be ideal if you don't know your networks as they'll usually manage your Router kit for you. "Hi I want this done" "ok it'll be done by 5pm tomorrow" - so much easier.
 
I think a block of 5 IP's is the lowest amount BT will issue (without VERY good reason). The big reason you need to have a Static IP for SBS and/or any Internet facing server will be down to Exchange.
You will not be able to run an email server on a dynamic IP address, yes you can use various DNS update services etc, but for a business this is not a good way to do business.
Most email servers will detect if the email has come from a dynamic IP Address and will block / grey list mail coming from Dynamic IP blocks.
Also things like SBS RWW wont work with dymanic IP's

Rob
 
Will get the other ISP working shortly - I get annoyed with BT (we also had 5 days downtime recently with them :eek: )

We have SBS server running 1 NIC only , not 2 ISA is just part of premium I believe.

For SBS we're not needing a static IP at te moment, for RWW we use DynDNS, incoming mail uses POP3 connector and outgoing mail goes through an external SMTP server, this is working perfectly :)

I've actually spoken to the guys that requested static IP in the first place and they have informed it is OK to use DynDNS now :p wish I knew that before, would have saved me a lot of grief today :mad:

I think I really need to learn networking in a bit more detail - I can set simple networks up but things like this have me completely confused :o
 
There seems to have been a lot of SBS related posts on the forum lately - Just because is looks like Windows XP and has friendly Wizards doesn't mean its easy to set up and run. Due to SBS's close integrated nature (Exchange, SQL, ISA, AD, DNS, DHCP ect all on one box) means that you really do need to understand it well.

Users that have a small amount if IT knowledge really should not just "play" at administrating SBS - Remember someone's business is running on that friendly looking box and the wrong setting could end up in hours of downtime trying to find out what setting should not have been changed.

Your best bet would be find an CERTIFIED Microsoft SBS Specialist in your area. Most of them will offer some sort of Server Maintenance plan and know what and how to set things up correctly with SBS.

/Rant Off!

Rob
 
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