UK ISP that provides static IP?

Django x2 · 21 Jan 2012 at 11:15

Friend of mine wants to run a home mail server for friends / family and virgin won't give him a static IP unless he changed to their business line! He doesn't want to use DynDNS or similar. Are there any UK providers you guys can recommend that are happy to provide a static IP (if there's a small charge, that's OK).

Jokester · 21 Jan 2012 at 11:21

I would imagine any of the BT wholesalers will, I know Plusnet definitely do.

Django x2 · 21 Jan 2012 at 11:23

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I've heard good things about plusnet. Ta.

Freakbro · 21 Jan 2012 at 11:29

Another vote for plusnet, have used them for quite some time now, no problems.

On the odd time the internet has gone down, it has always been resolved quickly after 1 call.

JIM_BOB7813 · 21 Jan 2012 at 11:42

Zen give a static IP (or block of 8).

Space Monkey · 21 Jan 2012 at 12:04

I believe B.E do as well

CyZMyAssBaby · 21 Jan 2012 at 12:07

Zen and Demon both provide static IP's

Demon · 21 Jan 2012 at 12:15

Even though O2 don't (AFAIK) offer static, it only seems to change if I put another router with a different MAC address on it..

And dyndns.org works wonderfully for me, even the stock firmware on my Linksys E3000 supports it..

And obviously having set up a 'mail' server just to mess around, quite frankly the novelty soon wears off, I actually transferred my domain over to google for mail, works much better at the end of the day.. but I am sure your friend will just want to try his own server as most of us have done!

opethdisciple · 21 Jan 2012 at 13:16

Be there do if you ask for it.

~Mike~ · 21 Jan 2012 at 13:34

Xilo / Uno Broadband

Q. I'd like to have a block of IP addresses for my home or office. Is this possible?

A. Yes, all lines are supplied with one static IP address. We're able to supply blocks of 4, 8, 16, 32 or bigger subject to justification. All customers are able to alter their own reverse DNS via the customer portal.

Take a look at their new Be packages

http://blog.xilo.net/article/new_be_powered_adsl2_services/