topic Re: Static IP 4g SIM card in Mobile Broadband

Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:09:44 GMT

How is it I can buy numerous ee4g SIM cards with a static ip on line from various retailers but when I try to do it direct from ee they won't entertain me?

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

Northerner — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:21:43 GMT

Hi @windymillerhi

EE don't issue static IP's so the services you are referring to will not be static IP's issued by EE, rather they will be via a MVNO service.

Thanks

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:58:23 GMT

I have not got a static IP, but I want one was my point.

I can buy a static ip from an online shop which is ee. I cannot buy or have a static ip on any of the 4 sims I currently have with EE.

Not having a static IP compromises my broadband functionality. If I was able to have a static landline to my home address I could have one, Why can't I buy an EE sim with a static IP

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

XRaySpeX — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:17:02 GMT

EE do not do static IPs on their mobile network. In fact they don't really do proper dynamic IPs. The EE mobile network uses Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) resulting in a double NAT which means you don't get your own public IP address but share it with other users. So you can't be uniquely id'ed on the Net & therefore your LAN cannot be addressed from outside for unsolicited accesses.

Even if you had fixed Home BB you won't often get a static IP. Not many ISPs do them.

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:24:15 GMT

I can buy an ee SIM card with a static IP address but they are £75 per month for unlimited data which is twice as much as I am paying. Numerous outlets are selling them. Why can't I buy direct from EE?

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:25:11 GMT

EE do do them but for some reason not through the regular route?

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

XRaySpeX — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:02:38 GMT

@windymillerhi wrote:

I can buy a static ip from an online shop which is ee.

Where is it that EE is doing them? Linky please?

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:53:22 GMT

numerous places, to many to mention, but this store sells ee vodaphone pretty much all of them as do many other shops.

https://www.3grouterstore.co.uk/oldstore/4G-Fixed-IP-SIM-Cards.html

Why can't I buy direct from ee?

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

EssexBoyEE — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:06:13 GMT

You can get a Static IP Sim from EE but only as a Business Customer.

It does not appear in the Business Shop though, if you are a Business Customer you need to proceed via your Business Advisor or Account Manager.

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

XRaySpeX — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:37:52 GMT

Yes, but that's not EE. You said earlier you could get them from EE:

@windymillerhi wrote:

I can buy a static ip from an online shop which is ee.

Anyway those Fixed IP SIMs from 3GRouterStore require the use of a VPN at extra cost from them. That's how they manage to give you a static IP on their own network, not EE's. It also follows that any existing EE SIM you have cannot be turned into a static IP by such a method.

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:14:36 GMT

I tried to discuss this with Merton in the ee business section. He told me it was not possible to get a static IP address on s4g SIM card through ee even if I did open a business account! someone is confused somewhere! I will call them again I suppose!

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

EssexBoyEE — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:24:03 GMT

Well Ive managed to get them in the past direct from EE although it was some time back now, and the Company I was representing was a Large Dot Gov Business.

Maybe its only Major Business, Corporates and Government type of Accounts?

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

windymillerhi — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:24:23 GMT

Not true "Anyway those Fixed IP SIMs from 3GRouterStore require the use of a VPN at extra cost from them. That's how they manage to give you a static IP on their own network, not EE's. It also follows that any existing EE SIM you have cannot be turned into a static IP by such a method." I spoke to them direct. just pop in the sim as you would any other and you are away!

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

XRaySpeX — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:39:02 GMT

Yes, sorry, that's for Private IP addys 😞 .

Re: Static IP 4g SIM card

MozzaSec — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:47:55 GMT

You can get Static IP's on EE, but it costs a lot to do, and its only for Enterprise Customers, who route traffic via their own network and Internet Breakout.

This is done via a Private APN's

I looked into this a while ago for work, and we couldn't believe the cost of setting this up.

And these plans will be through the likes of Gamma and other Mobile Distributors... so using their infrastructure... Just because its says its on EE doesnt mean its an EE sim card