On 12/10/18 11:58, Bengt Gördén wrote:
On 2018-10-12 08:41, Per Jessen wrote:
Plusnet is most likely also paying to be a RIPE NCC member (a LIR), which will cost them about EUR1400/annum. £5 for a static IP, one-off - that's entirely reasonable. Even 5/month.
You can buy a /24 for €2000-$4000. It's getting cheaper if the prefix is longer (/23 and so on). It's about €.65/IP-€1.3/IP/month the first year. You can also rent a /24 for about €200/year. Each IP-resource /16, /23 or whatever it is from RIPE-NCC cost you €50/year.
Plusnet has 1095865 IPv4 addresses that they maintain in the RIPE-db. If half of them is used for static assignment and you pay €5 it's €2.7M/month. That's good bushiness.
And the fee for being a LIR is a lot of other things. Request IPv4, IPv6, ASN. Use the RPKI-system etc.
All I am looking for is IPv4. The problem I have with plusnet is that since BT took them over they cap the bandwidth at 17Mbps / 1.2Mbps. I then phone up and complain and they lift the cap. I am then back to 19.5Mbps ish and 1.5Mbps. This has happened 3 times now. They also keep toggling interleaving without me asking them and this can affect the bandwidth too. So I am looking for an ISP which is like plusnet was before BT took them over. It is a shame because I used to speak very highly of plusnet. It is probably best to go with a smaller provider? Someone mentioned bulldog. I can only seem to find various foreign websites with different currencies. Are they a UK ISP? The other point is fiber internet. A lot of companies sell you "fiber" but you never actually get a fiber cable run to the property. Now I have seen some people locally who had this done back in 2006 /2007. Although when I inquired I was told it uses the existing phone line. Which as I said before is a dodgy cheap aluminium cable only capable of about 40Mbps. Obviously this is not going to be any good. I checked with openreach and my exchange had been upgraded and uses fiber only. I actually asked an engineer working on it one day and he said that to switch someone to fiber it is just a setting on the computer. there is no physical connection change. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org