US Telco Support > AT&T > AT&T U-verse > U-Verse Static IP Adresses Available

U-Verse Static IP Adresses Available

That's great that AT&T is offering this now. But, why does it require a truck roll?

-- Rob
--
AT&T U-Hearse
Your funeral. Delivered.

yes this makes almost no sense. only reason i can think of is that they need to put in a different RG.

if it wasn't for the truck roll i'd so do this.

--
»www.crossloop.com/nealdaringer

reply to keithww
It works a little different, so it would be easier to just send a tech rather than allocate a block to someone for "self install" just to have them call in when it isn't working.

reply to keithww
Yea..They called me a couple of weeks ago trying to get me to switch from DSL to U-Verse.

I have 128 static IPs for my hosting business. Those are on ATT DSL 6/1. I bought the block in 2001 for 400.00 flat. No monthly.

Now if I go to u-verse they want to charge me 40.00/mo for those same statics. If I did that in 2001 I would have paid almost 4000.00 for those same static IPs. Wow! Now that's kind of insulting.

I think I will stick with ATT DSL, It has been reliable and robust for the last 8 years and the speeds are fine for my business..Besides I heard that the ping times with u-verse can be pretty bad.

Try a flat rate for your static IPs again AT&T and stop trying to squeeze small businesses. Especially in this economy

reply to keithww
I know it doesn't help someone who needs static IPs for a business, but I use free service from DYNDNS to map the dynamic IP to an alias so that I can log into a VPN router I have in the DMZ+ on the RG without knowing my IP.

reply to keithww
Is this a real block ( 8 = 5 usable ) or is this the pseudo-static assigment stuff that I think we used to see with I believe the netopia routers?

reply to keithww
No, they are real blocks. They way we have it configured on the the RG and through the network is pretty...odd.

Does this use a new RG where you don't have to be double NAT'd? Can you put the RG in bridge mode or is it the same BS crappy 2wire crap they send out with uverse?

reply to keithww
Like hokumuchi said

Will this set up include a vdsl modem that can be bridged?

The 2 wire gateway is useless in a business environment.

reply to keithww
Its the same gateway and they way it is configured will work fine for any enviroment.

reply to keithww
A better question is whit this 'addon' will the regular accounts start to change addresses every now and then?

reply to keithww
No they wont. Everything is staying the same.

reply to keithww
If I just sign up with a business account is the one IP I get static?

Brian

Are these available for residential users?
Are we assigned a block of IPs that are not co-mixed with
other residential customers?

ATT DSL did that. My static blocks were within residential blocks and it caused all sorts of grief with RBL lists.

Will they offer DNS delegation (as they do for DSL) ?

Is there someone inside at AT&T still left that knows about DNS and delegation?

Last time I went through that, I had to tell the people what to put in the named.conf file to properly delegate the IP blocks to me.



-JD

reply to houkouonchi

reply to keithww
I just got a static IP block and the tech showed up.. he didn't know what he was supposed to do because his work order was blank. So he asked me what I needed and when I told him I wanted static IPs, he stared at me blankly for a moment, then called the CO and the guy there said "Oh, yeah, we do all the work for that here in the office."

He never touched my equipment! He didn't even walk inside my house! So.. truck roll is unnecessary.

On another note, the RG gets both a static IP _and_ a revolving dynamic IP. If you hook a device that uses DHCP up to the RG and let it get an address that way, it's NATed behind the dynamic IP. If you manually configure it with a static IP, it uses whatever they assign you for the gateway. In my case, my block starts at .0 and ends at .7. My gateway is .6, and I can use .1 through .5 for whatever I want.

reply to joako