what isp do you use for home labs

[mikesteigerwalt]

I wish I was in an area with gig fiber. I have 100/5 connection.

They are currently relocating our utilities as they expand the main road in/out of my city. I'm hoping that will bring some more competition.

I have the choice between ATT uverse at 45mbit and TWC. The TWC has been pretty consistent at least. Though it always does feel like South Park when calling customer service when I do have a problem though. It makes me miss fios. At least with that I was getting great upload speeds and a cheaper rate than TWC.

Have any of you ever dealt with DSL Extreme? Looks like the same speeds as Uverse in my area but with the option for 5 static IPs. That would be nicer instead of having to run a script every hour to update my A record for my domain.

 

[bds1904]

Have any of you ever dealt with DSL Extreme? Looks like the same speeds as Uverse in my area but with the option for 5 static IPs. That would be nicer instead of having to run a script every hour to update my A record for my domain.

DSL Extreme is a reseller. If you have U-verse in your area they are just reselling that. That being said I'm not too sure how the support structure works at that point. I think you call DSL Extreme then they contact AT&T. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, I've never dealt with it.

 

[bds1904]

AT&T finally isolated the problem with my service - the latest tech recrimped the end of the cable run that was attached to the ONT. No dropped connections or calls since. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the problem of 24/4 being the highest tier of service available in my neighborhood (on FTTH, no less). The tech let it slip that Comcast was an option. Our home is new construction (~18 months) and the builder led me to believe that AT&T was our only option for data service.

Talked to a Comcast rep yesterday, according to their map (they have to survey to make sure) I can get up to 150/25. Looks like I'll be dropping my Uverse account. I'm going to get 75/15 with a Static for the same price I'm paying for Uverse for 24/4 and two phone lines that haven't been reliable for the last eight months months. Later on I'll roll an Asterisk VM and figure out VoIP

Sounds like you are still on bpon. From what I understand in gpon areas you can get 75/8 on ftth. They are doing gpon in more places than gigapower areas too.

 

[mikesteigerwalt]

DSL Extreme is a reseller. If you have U-verse in your area they are just reselling that. That being said I'm not too sure how the support structure works at that point. I think you call DSL Extreme then they contact AT&T. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, I've never dealt with it.

Sounds like what we deal with at work. We call CL, they dispatch Verizon. Probably not that bad.

 

[jdvoracek]

ATT fiber 1GB (advertised)
FiberMall XGSPON-ONU-STICK V1.0 (8311 firmware) for ATT ONT/router bypass
Unifi Cloud Gateway Fiber
2 X Truenas 16 TB servers
Outside access via Unifi Teleport and Wireguard VPN's

Only disappointment is ATT does not provide advertised 1GB, especially on download. Here is last week's speeds at 3AM. They are (much) worse during peak times, download often 300MB or less. Some days download is near 1GB at 3AM, however, proving it's ATT network poor capacity, not my equipment.

 

[urbanracer34]

I use a local ISP called SaskTel. I pay for 300/150 FTTH and have no problems reaching the speeds I pay for. Maybe someday I'll get gigabit.

 

[ca3y6]

I implemented the API of my DNS provider so I created my own dyndns effectively. Add to that an IP whitelist stored in AWS so that only those IPs can connect to the NAS (can update the AWS list remotely).

Alternatively set up a cheap wireguard VPN server (you can rent a linux VPN for peanuts). It doesn't need high specs (in fact happily runs on a raspberry pi).

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

A local, tiny ass ISP with a 1 Gbit symmetrical fiber line. Very, very pleased.

 

[bansh3]

local ISP digi.ro in Bucharest,/Romania XGS-PON from 10Gbps i get around 8.5Gbps up/down ... more or less, for ~10$/month
Still dinamic ip but ISP offer a DDNS sollution that is tied to my PPPoE session, so i don`t need to login or run anything extra. even so in the past months i noticed my IP changes very rare, even between session restarts

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

local ISP digi.ro in Bucharest,/Romania XGS-PON from 10Gbps i get around 8.5Gbps up/down ... more or less, for ~10$/month
Still dinamic ip but ISP offer a DDNS sollution that is tied to my PPPoE session, so i don`t need to login or run anything extra. even so in the past months i noticed my IP changes very rare, even between session restarts

jelly tbh

 

[louie1961]

I have Xfinity cable internet and T-Mobile 5G home internet. Both at about 600mbps. I don't need or want a public IP. I access my home lab with Tailscale, and I expose my public facing websites with a Cloudflare tunnel. My sites are not getting a ton of traffic so 600mbps is plenty fast enough, especially with Cloudflare caching and CDN.