NTL Fixed IP address
bob dydd
I am using NTL Cable broad band which has a dynamic IP address and my
Website hosting company need to have a Fixed IP Address. For security
reasons they say.
To that end they give me their dialer which I guess must be a fixed IP
address, and they allow me connection only via the dialer and 56k
modem. Yuk!
Now my website is getting a bit large, I would like to use the NTL
broadband connection to to upload.
So the question: Is there any way to get a fixed IP Address from NTL ?
Regards Bob Dydd
Dr.Teeth
>So the question: Is there any way to get a fixed IP Address from NTL ?
I assume that you've tried http://www.ntlworld.com/help/ ?
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ntl: do not offer fixed IP on their home products. You could upgrade to
their business cable service, but as another has said, easier and cheaper
to find a hoster with a more reasonable access policy.
Zane.
Thomas Sandford
My experience is that though the NTL home product may not be fixed IP, in
practice, at least if you remain permanently connected (eg using a wireless
router) the IP does not change over a period of several weeks, even months.
[I'm not on NTL myself, but I provide by-IP-limited connections to someone
who is].
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bob dydd
Thanks to everyone who answered. I phoned NTL (no easy task) and was
told that they could upgrade me for £100.00 to business use but when
the free faster upgrade comes next month, if I have business contract
I would not get the free faster upgrade. Anyways! I agreed, proffered
my Visa card only to be told that it is not available in m area. Grrrr
I like the idea by Thomas Sandford, but to do this I need to find out
the IP Address of my Cable Modem on the Internet. I am using an Ambit
351000 cable modem that is about 3 years old
Does anyone no how to do this?
Bob dydd
On 11 Apr 2005 15:38:09 +0100, Thomas Sandford
dave @ stejonda
<cl...@eastwood.com> writes
>I like the idea by Thomas Sandford, but to do this I need to find out
>the IP Address of my Cable Modem on the Internet. I am using an Ambit
>351000 cable modem that is about 3 years old
>
>Does anyone no how to do this?
Type myip into Google ;-)
The top result however leads to http://whatsmyip.smokingmedia.com/ which
tells me my IP accurately but tells me I'm in Amsterdam :(
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Thomas Sandford
> In message <610n51hci5k6gsee8...@4ax.com>, bob dydd
> <cl...@eastwood.com> writes
> >I like the idea by Thomas Sandford, but to do this I need to find out
> >the IP Address of my Cable Modem on the Internet. I am using an Ambit
> >351000 cable modem that is about 3 years old
> >
> >Does anyone no how to do this?
>
> Type myip into Google ;-)
>
> The top result however leads to http://whatsmyip.smokingmedia.com/ which
> tells me my IP accurately but tells me I'm in Amsterdam :(
That's because they are too stupid to follow whois results correctly and
so take the initial reply which says your IP is allocated to RIPE, based
in Amsterdam.
They totally ignore the remaining 100 lines or so which might have some
hope of getting at least the correct country.
But in truth pretending that you can get much better than the nearest
continental group (if that) by looking at an IP address is moonshine.
Whois can tell you who the IP is allocated to but where it is used is
irrelevant.
A traceroute may give some clues if the intervening routers are helpfully
named...
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Yddap
bob dydd <cl...@eastwood.com> opined very noisily:
> Hi Y'all
>
> Thanks to everyone who answered. I phoned NTL (no easy task) and was
> told that they could upgrade me for £100.00 to business use but when
> the free faster upgrade comes next month, if I have business contract
> I would not get the free faster upgrade. Anyways! I agreed, proffered
> my Visa card only to be told that it is not available in m area. Grrrr
>
> I like the idea by Thomas Sandford, but to do this I need to find out
> the IP Address of my Cable Modem on the Internet. I am using an Ambit
> 351000 cable modem that is about 3 years old
>
> Does anyone no how to do this?
>
> Bob dydd
>
Taken from your post headers
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Rob S
wrote:
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-The top result however leads to http://whatsmyip.smokingmedia.com/ which
-tells me my IP accurately but tells me I'm in Amsterdam :(
This one seems better (I'm also told I'm in Amsterdam on that one...)
-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com
Mark McIntyre
<${thomas/03$}@paradisegreen.co.uk> wrote:
>But in truth pretending that you can get much better than the nearest
>continental group (if that) by looking at an IP address is moonshine.
far from it. Many ISPs provide reverse dns lookup to human-readable
names for their IPs. From this you can tell a heck of a lot. Mine for
instance tells you the town I'm in, the UBR I'm on, the type of
service and my ISP.
>Whois can tell you who the IP is allocated to but where it is used is
>irrelevant.
if you drill down a little, you can often get a bit further
>A traceroute may give some clues if the intervening routers are helpfully
>named...
indeed.
Mark McIntyre
if you're on NTL cable, this one tells you the IP of your http cache
server for routes to the .info TLD....
dave @ stejonda
<markmc...@spamcop.net> writes
>>http://www.whatsmyip.info/
>
>if you're on NTL cable, this one tells you the IP of your http cache
>server for routes to the .info TLD....
If I understand you correctly (I've had a sleepless night) then Not here
it doesn't - I get the external IP of my machines reported.
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