Static IP 4g SIM card

[windymillerhi]

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?

[Northerner]

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

[windymillerhi]

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

[XRaySpeX]

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.

[windymillerhi]

 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?

[windymillerhi]

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

[XRaySpeX]

@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?

[windymillerhi]

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?

[EssexBoyEE]

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.

[XRaySpeX]

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.