Home Broadband - Static IP address?

[jefft]

I had a chat earlier with one of the online support agents, who told me that it is not only possible but free to have a static IP on home broadband.

However, having found no reference to it anywhere else and several to the contrary, I wonder if she was confusing home and business broadband even though I did specify home.

Can someone from Voda please confirm?  Is a static IP on the WAN side of HOME broadband an option?

Thanks!

[Nabs]

@jefft Vodafone dont officially allow you to use your own routerb. They dont, or are not supposed to, provide the VDSL username and password.

You can, I believe, just switch off all the routing features and use it as a modem only which will allow you to use your own router.

Have a look at this thread, it should help with setting up how you want.

http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Pay-monthly-products-services/Workaround-USE-YOUR-OWN-THIRD-PARTY-ROU...

[jefft]

Thanks, that's useful info.

I'll have to look into that in more detail; my firewall will expect to be sitting on the public IP address directly, rather than routed via another subnet.  The DMZ + all ports forwarded approach might work, though.  If only they'd just stick to the Openreach modem or have a bridge mode in their router... if it's too much faff I'll just stick with PlusNet where they don't make things awkward.