Comment by simonjgreen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by simonjgreen | Hacker News Reader

The ISP I own will give you dedicated if you desire. We charge an uplift for the installation (due to additional splicing) and a little bit more on the monthly price for the consumption of dedicated ports and cores rather than using the PON. However, as is the case with most provided services like this, the majority of the cost is covering the risk of the SLA. The likelihood of an outage is not too dissimilar to the likelihood of outage on PON, so really it becomes a financial and service guarantee more than an uptime guarantee. As a healthy middle ground, we will also offer BGP on regular services and we do a bit of a referral system with a couple of other friendly ISPs, who will also do BGP. I actually prefer multi homing to “dedicated” from a resilience perspective because it separates you from the entire network stack all the way to the transit and peering.

Perhaps you’ll be able to help. Why do ISPs, including yours, not provide a map of service? Almost every time it is this “check if you have service” API. Every time I have moved I have wanted to look for areas with support under various ISPs and each time it’s an annoying process of sending each address to this API, dealing with rate limits, anti-fraud etc.

One time I contacted the business contact with a bunch of addresses and that was useful but the round trip is so slow I was better off just querying.

We actually used to maintain coverage maps, but after expanding through several huge providers such as Cityfibre and Openreach it became silly to maintain.

Certainly in UK that could be also be quite a risky thing to do, as it could expose build strategies to competitors. That said, we expose an API to Better Internet Dashboard so they can do map based coverage exploration.

Thank you. Makes sense to me.

(Potential non-commercial customer) Checked the help page - couldn’t see anything about static IP addresses, IPv6 etc?

Edit: Ah, “Our network. You acknowledge that We may change your Internet Protocol (IP) address from time to time without giving notice unless You have purchased a fixed IP address from us;”

The website is honestly not the most loved, however you get a static v4 address and v6 network as standard. We reserve the right to shift them if we need to for network reorg, though that has never happened to date.

What’s your ISP?

click their profile https://1310.io/

Thank you! I clicked their profile on my phone while in bed and must've missed it.

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