I had a customer today that needed a static IP address to connect directly to a city's VRS network. After about three hours of phone calls, I found out that you can subscribe to their i2gold service. I did not get a price, but judging by the name, it is expensive. The M2M service that was mentioned above may or may not be static. That APN was meant for home automation type things, i.e. Nest thermostats, connected iceboxes, etc. The i2 gold APN is specifically geared towards connecting "Mobility data centers to a customer hub location. Uses static IP addresses." A current list of AT&T APNs can be found at https://developer.att.com/technical-library/apns/apn-descriptions-and-characteristics
For my R10 I do have the I2GOLD plan, but I cannot get to the right person to activate that for my new modem. The R10 was setup by dataactivationcenter.com, but I believe if I go through them I am locked in to a 2 year contract, because they did not charge anything for their service, so I assume the carrier is paying them. They did recently come out with some cheaper plans on Verizon. I had my RTK bridge on a 5 GB for $50/month plan, and never came close to 5GB. So I finally was able to get a cheaper plan with lower allowance with them.
I got my I2Gold straight from AT&T. I've used them for close to 20 years now and they did not charge me a set up fee. I think I pay $3 a moth for each line on our plan that has a static IP. If you already have an account with I2Gold I would just call AT&T support and add the static IP to the line in questions. You might even be able to do it on line. On the hardware side all you need to do is us the I2Gold APN. As for Verizon, I had to pay them $500 to activate the static IP on our monitoring equipment and had to keep the line active even when not in use. It got expensive in between real time monitoring projects to avoid the $500 fee again.
See my recent post about Trimble R10 and AT&T data plan...
John Putnam, post: 407432, member: 1188 wrote: As for Verizon, I had to pay them $500 to activate the static IP on our monitoring equipment and had to keep the line active even when not in use. It got expensive in between real time monitoring projects to avoid the $500 fee again.
I didn't get any notice from Verizon when I signed up about losing my static IP if the line isn't active. Did you get some sort of warning about this?
T-Mobile also charges a one time $500 fee for static IP's and I believe after that it is just a per line charge to add additional, not sure on that through as I only have one.
SHG
Shelby H. Griggs PLS, post: 407449, member: 335 wrote: I believe after that it is just a per line charge to add additional
Verizon told me I could have as many as I need for my $500, though they didn't say how many that might be. I only need one for now, so I didn't look into it further.
Jim Frame, post: 407441, member: 10 wrote: I didn't get any notice from Verizon when I signed up about losing my static IP if the line isn't active. Did you get some sort of warning about this?
Jim,
I can not remember when I found out that I needed to keep the plan alive. Set up was for the fee was for the entire account, as many lines as I wanted. The real-time monitoring was the only thing we had on Verizon. I think that was the underlying factor. If I let the service laps on it then the account was closed and I lost the static IP option. I was able to deactivate the line for a 3 months out of the year. In the end it was just cheaper to get new modem that utilizes our AT&T plan. If I ever have a monitoring project outside of their coverage I will just charge the new setup to the client.
