I got a static IP on Airtel a few days ago. I pay for a 200 Mbps plan but since the static IP, it is constantly touching 900+ Mbps on downloads. (Not that it is particularly useful, but interesting to know). I had experienced the same thing on Tikona as well many years ago, getting a Static IP took both the upload and download speeds from 8 Mbps -> 12 Mbps. Anyone know why exactly this happens? My very basic understanding suggests either: 1) They are unable to cap speeds on connections that aren’t via PPoE? Having a static IP bypasses a couple of layers of their network? 2) Probably a fluke and this will be reset in a few days?

What are the static IP charges? I have the same plan and I'm kinda struggling for good speed 😞

You got a static IP or a framed IP? There is a small difference between the two. Framed IP is an IP that is assigned to you every time when you login via PPPoE, whereas static IP is like a leased line there is no username/password to be configured. Retail connections typically do not get static IP - they are given framed IP only (my experience across You Broadband & two local ISPs)

200 -> 900 !??!?!

It is a static IP - Rs 99 + GST / month Not a framed IP. Their technician came home and had to reconfigure the router. @quiet-coat-90669 If you are having a bad time with speeds, it is mostly your router at fault. Pull a lan cable and do a speed test. I have a wire running to my machine and I usually get the promised 200 Mbps. 250 usually.

Interesting. That's cheap for static IP - it usually costs Rs 2000 (with GST)/yr (TRAI charge) otherwise.

That’s amazing! I’ve been trying for more than a year to get an Airtel connection. They don’t have the infrastructure in my locality yet

Noob question - What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a Static IP over PPoE?

@faint-energy-11966 ISPs often put a time restriction on PPP sessions, so your session will reset every x hours. And it is quite possible that when your router initiates a new session (since most of them are configured to always maintain connectivity) you get a different IP address allocated from the pool- suppose you are in the middle of a payment transaction your connection will break because IP changed - I had this exact problem with You Broadband which is why I took static IP With PPPoE + framed IP or simply static IP this does not happen - even if the PPP session resets you get the same IP address, transactions can continue as it is except for a temporary disruption in connectivity

No disadvantages to having a static IP?

@loud-glass-33663 Static IP shouldn't have anything to do with the speed bump. It is more likely that you are allotted an IP address from a different subnet and they've forgotten or don't throttle those connections. NAT'ed connections over PPPoE are perfectly capable of sustaining 1GBps - it is a function of your router's capabilities and the underlying PHY (which in your case is probably an ethernet PHY over fiber). (Now to try to get Airtel to roll out those connections across the street from Jasminium, so I have a fiber backup link as well 😉)

@faint-energy-11966 You lose a bit on anonymity with a static IP. Many years ago, we were able to track a company pirating our software because they had static IPs and we were able to get their actual location from the ISP by looking up their logs on our servers. Not to say that you can’t do it with dynamically associated addresses, but you still have a slight window where in you can say that it wasn’t you and somebody else (your timestamps and ISP timestamps didn’t match up, etc). Slim chance but possible. Not so with Static IPs. The reason I got it because I was sick of having to auth my computer multiple times when IPs changed or had to put it multiple times in the firewall on AWS while testing.

@loud-glass-33663 I have two bundled Tata Sky fiber connections. I was hoping to switch one of those to Airtel or Jio for redundancy. Also, Tata Sky only gives out IPv6 static IP addresses which has limited usage. I think only Airtel gives out IPv4 static addresses now, which is quite nice.

I too had static IP past year and yeah it was beneficial for me as well because i could set specific gaming ports open to play some games with less packet loss etc issue. I got speed hike as well but not that great Thing i know from ISP Guy is that, Once i got the static IP, your connection will be not splitter from splitter box at the building , you will get 1 to 1 connection, I am not sure how much truth that was

@swift-microphone-91058 static IP has nothing to do with the way physical network is laid out, what he probably meant by 1:1 is symmetric upload/download speed (asymmetric speeds are a thing of past nowadays with fiber everywhere, they are mostly used in ADSL links)

An update on this - incase anyone is wondering. Still getting close to 1 Gbps speeds with the static IP. (A month and a half later) I haven’t seen a noticeable difference in the quality of my internet usage between a 200 Mbps connection (which I had before) and a 1 Gbps connection. Yet. 🙂 Most web servers I have noticed will tap out your connection at 100 Mbps if you are downloading anything from them. So unless you are doing torrents (very very risky with static IPs), I don’t think it makes much of a difference.

@loud-glass-33663 there's nothing risky wrt to torrents & static ip - ISPs anyway have to maintain accounting/call logs, so even if you are having dynamic IP and you're doing something illegal it is technically possible to track it down