Latitude Internet Solutions offers a fixed IP address as a standard inclusion on its wireless and fibre broadband plans, across both the Freedom Wireless and Fibre connections. We are a nationwide provider of broadband, Wi-Fi, phone and mobile services, and can connect you on the major nationwide wireless and fibre networks eg One, Spark, Chorus and Enable. If you need a static IP and fibre is not an option at your address, our wireless plans are built to give you one.
A static IP on wireless is unusual in the New Zealand market. Larger providers running mobile-network wireless broadband typically hand out a shared, changing address, which rules out the uses that depend on a fixed one. Regional wireless operators sometimes include a static IP, but availability and pricing vary by area and provider. We include it as part of your plan so you know exactly what you are getting before you sign up.
A fixed IP address is a public address on the internet that belongs to your connection and does not change between sessions. With a dynamic IP, the address can shift whenever your modem reconnects or your provider reassigns it, which breaks anything that needs to find you at a known location.
You want a fixed IP on wireless when you run something that the outside world has to reach directly. Common reasons include
On fibre a static IP is straightforward. On wireless it is scarcer, because the way most mobile networks assign addresses does not leave room for a fixed public one. That is the gap our wireless plans close.
All Freedom Wireless and Fixed Rural Wireless plans from Latitude include a static/fixed IP address in the monthly price. Here is the full range
Plan | Data | Fixed/static IP | $/month |
|---|---|---|---|
Freedom Wireless Mini 1 | 1 GB | Included | 18 |
Freedom Wireless Mini 3 | 3 GB | Included | 23 |
Freedom Wireless Mini 5 | 5 GB | Included | 29 |
Freedom Wireless Mini 10 | 10 GB | Included | 40 |
Freedom Wireless 60 | 60 GB | Included | 55 |
| Freedom Wireless 150 | 150 GB | Included | 60 |
| Freedom Wireless 300 | 300 GB | Included | 65 |
| Freedom Wireless 600 | 600 GB | Included | 75 |
| Freedom Wireless Unlimited | Unlimited | Included | 99 |
| Fixed Rural Wireless 200 | 200 GB | Included | 95 |
Fixed Rural Wireless 400 | 400 GB | Included | 110 |
Fixed Rural Wireless Unlimited | Unlimited | Included | 135 |
The Freedom Wireless Mini plans pair a fixed IP with a small data cap, from 1 GB up to 10 GB. Those suit a low-traffic connection that still needs a reachable address: remote monitoring gear, a backup link for a payment terminal, an alarm or a camera at a site nobody streams video from all day. Paying $18/month for the Mini 1 gets you a static IP without paying for data you will not use.
The Freedom and Fixed Rural Wireless plans are for a household or business that actually browses, streams and works over the connection, with data caps from 60 GB up to unlimited on the $135/month plan. Every plan includes a fixed IP.
Most mobile-network wireless broadband cannot give you a fixed public IP because the network shares one pool of public addresses across many customers, usually behind carrier-grade NAT. Your device gets a private address inside the carrier's network, and traffic from lots of users leaves through the same handful of public ones. Nothing on the outside can point at you specifically, so inbound connections like remote access, hosting or a VPN endpoint do not work.
Some large retailers state plainly that a static IP is not available on their wireless service. Where a static IP does turn up on wireless in New Zealand, it is more often with small to medium sized wireless internet providers than with the big mobile-network retailers, and it is frequently limited to the providers coverage footprint. That is why "which provider" matters more here than it does for fibre, on wireless, the address type is a real product difference, not a formality. Because Latitude connect users nationwide we are not restricted to a coverage footprint like many smaller service providers.
You need a modem/router suited to the network you are connecting to, and at many rural sites, an external antenna may be required to lock onto the signal. Latitude supplies the hardware with the plan rather than leaving you to source it:
For a rural property, the antenna is usually the part that makes the difference. An indoor modem sitting on a windowsill can technically connect but may still drop out whenever the weather turns bad or someone loads the network. A properly mounted rooftop antenna, aimed at the right tower, holds the signal steady, which matters even more when the connection is running something that has to stay reachable at its fixed IP.
Start with whether the plan actually includes a fixed IP as a supported feature, then match the data to how you will use it. Latitude covers the fixed-IP requirement on both its Freedom Wireless, Fixed Rural Wireless and Fibre connections, so the decision comes down to a few checks:
To check coverage and pricing for your address, or to confirm which wireless plan fits, contact Latitude Internet by phone on 0800 LATITUDE or from our website contact us page to check coverage at your location.
Latitude Internet Solutions offers a fixed (static) IP address on all wireless and fibre broadband plans, priced from only $18/month. Most large mobile-network wireless retailers do not offer a genuine static IP, and where it exists elsewhere it tends to be with smaller regional wireless providers within their own coverage areas.
All Latitude Internet's Freedom Wireless and Fixed Rural Wireless plans include a fixed IP, this is built into the monthly plan price rather than billed as a separate add-on. That is different from some providers who charge a monthly fee for a static IP on top of the base plan, so it is worth confirming whether an IP is included or extra before you compare prices.
All Latitude's 5G Wireless Broadband plans include a fixed IP. With other providors it depends entirely on the provider and how their network assigns addresses. Many 5G and 4G mobile-network plans place customers behind shared, dynamic addressing that cannot support a fixed public IP. Latitude's wireless plans include a fixed IP and hardware like the TP-Link BE48 supports 5G where the signal is available.
A fixed IP makes remote access, cameras, VPNs and remote monitoring far more reliable, because the outside connection always knows where to find your network. You can sometimes work around a dynamic IP with a dynamic-DNS service, but that adds a dependency and can break when the address changes. If uptime for inbound access matters, a genuine static public IP is the cleaner setup.
Latitude's Freedom Wireless Mini 1 includes a static IP for $18/month with a 1 GB data cap, which suits low-traffic uses like remote monitoring, an alarm link or a backup connection for a payment terminal. If you need real browsing and streaming data alongside the fixed IP, the Freedom Wireless Broadband plans start at $55/month with a 60 GB data cap.
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Author : David Gabites