[ale] State of play re home Internet with static IP

[Jim Kinney]

On March 5, 2019 12:50:26 AM EST, Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> stop using other people computer. Hack, Destroy, and build your
>own. Trust your techno lust.
>


Hell, Yeah!!  +1


>Terrorpup
>
>On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:05 PM dev null zero two via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>
>> a couple dumb questions:
>>
>> why do y'all host email at home other than for learning / lab
>purposes?
>>
>> why do y'all need static IPs aside from email server purposes when
>dynamic
>> dns works so well nowadays with cloudflare for instance?
>>
>> most next gen firewalls can take DNS in place of IPs for ACLs and
>rarely
>> does any commercial internet facing service have just one IP address
>in any
>> case (anycast, load balancing, etc)
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:58 PM Jeremy T. Bouse via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just dumped my Comcast Business Internet and Comcast Residential
>Cable
>>> service at the first of the year. At that time Comcast was raising
>the rate
>>> on the monthly router lease which I only begrudgingly got because
>they said
>>> that was the only way I could get a /29 static subnet so I was
>paying for
>>> the 50/10 internet service, the modem and the static IP block. I
>went with
>>> AT&T GigaPower fiber. I'm getting 995/956 as of my last speed test
>>> yesterday.  So to address Joey's comment about it not being fiber to
>the
>>> side of the house, I can claim with 100% certainty that I have fiber
>all
>>> the way into my second story room where my router sits as I watched
>the
>>> tech run the fiber up to the box and plug it all up. Then again the
>ADSL
>>> service I had years ago before going with Comcast was delivered over
>fiber
>>> to the beige box in my neighbors yard across the street where it
>went from
>>> the ONC to copper to the side of my house, but in the past couple
>years AT&
>>> brought the fiber the last 25-50yards give or take to the side of
>the
>>> house.
>>>
>>> So far in the 2 full months I've had the service I've had no outages
>and
>>> I'm pushing TBs up and down through it. The only port blocking I've
>>> encountered is their old grandfather's firewalling of 25/tcp
>outbound but
>>> nothing stopping ports inbound so far that I've found. I have the
>same /29
>>> subnet worth of static IP addresses at $10 less per month than
>Comcast and
>>> AT&T doesn't charge a monthly fee for the router and the
>installation fee
>>> was waived for me. I'm currently paying half what I paid for Comcast
>and
>>> have over 20x the bandwidth.  I was paying $150 to Comcast for the
>Business
>>> internet and they were raising that so I went with AT&T for $75 a
>month.
>>> On 3/4/2019 7:24 PM, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
>>>
>>> After many years at the status quo (AT&T UVerse and POTS land line)
>I'm
>>> finally looking into a rework of the home telecomm situation.
>>>
>>> I have two main drivers that are forcing the decision:
>>>
>>>    1. Even after the shortest of power outages, upstream UVerse
>service
>>>    goes dead and stays dead for 10-20 minutes. This was not always
>the case
>>>    but in the last few years it's been the "new normal;" my wife
>works at home
>>>    via VPN enough that that's a problem, and it's no good for me
>either. Yes,
>>>    I have UPSses out the wazoo on everything and it doesn't matter.
>I've tried
>>>    to get through to AT&T by phone to at least get the problem
>acknowledged
>>>    but that's been impossible.
>>>    2. There's a good chance I might be leaving town for my next job
>for
>>>    an unknown amount of time, but that won't mean that I'll stop
>being the "IT
>>>    guy" for the house; I will simply *have* to be able to shell in
>from the
>>>    outside. If there is such a thing as a "reflector" service that
>sits on the
>>>    Internet - even if it's my own server somewhere - that gives me a
>way to
>>>    tunnel in reverse through some kind of connection that's
>initiated from
>>>    inside the house, I don't want to be dependent on it.
>>>
>>> Being able to run my own Internet-reachable web and email servers in
>the
>>> house is anticipated but is secondary to those two main drivers.
>>>
>>> It is my understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve my street.
>>>
>>> I've spoken to a rep for Comcast Business and they're telling me
>that
>>> within reason (with respect to affected region(s) and length of
>outage, I
>>> presume) their service will remain unaffected by power outage. That
>handles
>>> 1. above, and they also offer as few as one static IP address which
>should
>>> be sufficient to handle 2.
>>>
>>> I have not yet called about any of AT&T's business residential
>offerings
>>> but when I got a flyer in the mail about some kind of fiber service
>being
>>> available in my neighborhood and called to inquire, I couldn't get
>anything
>>> even remotely like a straight answer but the upshot was that no, the
>fiber
>>> service wasn't available to me. I'm quite rather done with AT&T, to
>be
>>> honest.
>>>
>>> Comcast says they can give me a VoIP-like service that can
>optionally use
>>> my old phone number. I'm undecided on that; the phone rings with
>random
>>> robocalls and other solicitations 3-5 times a day (Do Not Call list
>>> notwithstanding) and there are only 3 living persons whom we know
>who ever,
>>> *ever* call that line.
>>>
>>> We would like to have a TV service with DVR available and it's my
>>> understanding from talking to Comcast that it would have to be
>Xfinity
>>> piggybacked on the Comcast Business service. It would be either that
>or
>>> satellite to still have DVR. I've never dealt with satellite service
>before
>>> but the houses to either side of us have it. I've built an HDTV
>antenna and
>>> mounted it in the attic but I haven't completed the cabling to know
>for
>>> sure how well it will work, and if we went that route, there'd be no
>DVR
>>> unless I went the whole MythTV (or equivalent) route and I'm really
>not
>>> willing to try that again.
>>>
>>> I'm all (rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip.
>>>
>>> - Jeff
>>>
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