IP addresses

[#1]

Does anyone know if Plusnet are using CG NAT. I can't find anything in search. Reason I ask is I'm having some issues with on-demand content from sky, and they think it's down to this, with users effectively sharing ipv4 addresses.
Also I used to have a static IP, a holdover from broadband PAYG.( Yes I've been around that long)😊. I don't appear to have this anymore, but don't recall ever being told it was being removed, unless it was automatically done during a product move, as I'm now on fibre.

[#2]

@penfold AFAIK, Plusnet do not use CGNAT - it usually only used by mobile networks, and I suspect SKY are trying to fob you off.

Can't help with the static query - sorry. Just a thought - what are the first three octets of your address?

[#3]

Thanks. They are 80.2
They also told me to change from Google DNS to plusnets, what difference that would make is anyone's guess

[#4]

The easiest way to check is to run nslookup on your public ip address.

If the reply is something like 1.0.189.80.dyn.plus.net then it is dynamic

HTH

[#5]

I'm not 100% certain - slightly outside my pay-grade, but that is a dynamic pool, I think.  Are you using Google DNS -if so why? - but that is more balderdash.

[#6]

Reason I ask is I'm having some issues with on-demand content from sky, and they think it's down to this, with users effectively sharing ipv4 addresses

complete and utter rubbish!

[#7]

@MisterW
Completely agree.
I'm using Google DNS, as I always have done. Are plusnets DNS servers better than they used to be. I had issues quite some time ago where they were a bit unresponsive.

[#8]

@penfold - Plusnet do not use CGNAT and it looks to me like your IP address is static.

[#9]

Thanks Bob.