Good Cheap ISP with Static IP addresses

Mason64 · 14 Apr 2013 at 17:00

Hi

I need a static ip address for my home office. i wanted to know what is a good isp to go with. at the moment i pay £22 per month for line rental and the net with post office and they have been perfect not had 1 problem in 2 years with them?

I want to have a static ip address but the post office dont offer them.

Can anyone recommend any company?
Thanks
Dave

parityboy · 14 Apr 2013 at 17:06

@OP

I'm with PlusNet. I've recently moved to them and couldn't be happier. They offer a static IP as a one-time £5 purchase, unlike O2 (my previous ISP) who will offer the same for £5/month.

Frozennova · 14 Apr 2013 at 17:23

Is a static IP absolutely neccesary, you could use DynDNS or similar and use they're update client.

Mason64 · 14 Apr 2013 at 17:57

Yeah need a static ip address, learning how to use a few servers at the moment and need to use the static address for a few things.

ChrisD. · 14 Apr 2013 at 18:13

Another vote for Plusnet, it's a one off charge even on the residential packages.

v3llr · 14 Apr 2013 at 19:33

With Plusnet, is it £5 per IP or can you only buy one ?

Mason64 · 14 Apr 2013 at 19:52

just rang them, It is just a 5er for a static ip address, not sure if you can have more than 1

Free set up but £5.99 for the postage of the router,

Cycrow · 15 Apr 2013 at 12:07

you only really need a static ip if your running a mail server.

for anything else you could just use a dynamic dns.
i've run servers and things using Virgin, which had a dynamic ip that never really changed. The only problem i had with that was sending mail using SMTP which i just routed through virgin's mail servers instead

PistolPete · 15 Apr 2013 at 12:47

Mason64 said:
just rang them, It is just a 5er for a static ip address, not sure if you can have more than 1

Free set up but £5.99 for the postage of the router,

I used to have a /29 on Plusnet, but that was years ago pre-BT days