Day 2 – copied over from ubuntulondon site

Well its day 2 now, been looking into those static IP address’s and have discovered that on the BT home package they do not allocate and cant allocate you an IP address without changing the package to a Business broadband account. I have had to move my Broadband from Option 3 on home to the Business option 2 in order to get the IP address’s.

What this now means is I have to pay £35 pounds a month including 5 Static IP address’s, will loose the 5gig online vault, will loose the free evening and weekend calls bundled into the wifi phone set on the home hub, and will receive new equipment as well. I was paying £22.99 /month for the previous package. I do gain the use of 5 static ip address’s though so at least I can set up my 2 machines on the web. Bit of a bummer, wish I new this earlier, so let it be a lesson for everyone – BT do not give static ip’s on the total broadband options. So if you are a Linux / server fanatic like myself, you may want to check with your ISP that you can get static IP’s or at least 1 from them on a home package.

One good website I came accross a while aggo, that will tell you what you can get on your line in your area as well as statistics on speeds on your exchange, distances etc and good for comparing ISP’s is: www.samknows.com

So They tell me that the line will switch over for Monday – with little downtime (30min) and that I should get the new router on friday (which I asked them to deliver to work) as they also require someone to sign for the package when they deliver it. So watch out for that too, got burnt the first time on delivery. Will let you know more on how that goes next week!