How to tell if Fixed IP - TelstraClear?

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Aaroona

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#166134 3-Mar-2015 20:24

Is there any way to tell if you are on a fixed IP with Telstra, without having to call them?

I know that with Snap they put you in a "Dynamic" range, this is actually displayed DNS for my IP.

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#1250544 3-Mar-2015 20:25

What type of connection and plan?

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Aaroona

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#1250546 3-Mar-2015 20:29

yitz: What type of connection and plan?

That's a bloody good question.. All I know is it is an old grandfathered plan... I'll have to see if I can find out more tomorrow... I was just assuming that certain IP ranges were allocated as static IP ranges with different ISP's.

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#1250556 3-Mar-2015 20:49

If you subscribe to the Static IP service it should show on the bill. For business connections such as BizNet there is a charge of $8.88+GST.

Some connection types such as cable effectively have a fixed IP (Static IP service not required) due to how it is provisioned.

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#1250578 3-Mar-2015 21:28

Did you say Telstra? Is this Cable?

Cable uses Static IP

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#1250582 3-Mar-2015 21:39

As above all cable customers have static IP addresses, this is the only way of doing it.

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#1250606 3-Mar-2015 22:02

If you are still on an old TestraClear cable plan, it would be worth looking at the new Vodafone cable plans, which tend to give much better data allowances at a cheaper price.
You would still have a static IP address if you changed plan (and would probably retain your existing IP address).

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#1250683 4-Mar-2015 07:43

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You would still have a static IP address if you changed plan (and would probably retain your existing IP address).

We switched from 60GB to unlimited data on Cable and retained our Static IP.

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#1251110 4-Mar-2015 15:59

Okay sorry guys, must not be telstra clear, but just Clear.

We have the very old ADSL connection. Unsure on the details of it at this stage - I believe it's an old business connection... been pretty swamped today, so fell out of the priority list.

I suspect it's just a very sticky DHCP address, as it's only a testing/backup line.

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#1251176 4-Mar-2015 16:58

Probably then. Not static but sticky.