Hi Ryan,
> I am a little confused at how I would know if they are handing me a /29 or > just 5 IP's? > > range: 75.xx.xx.25 - .29 > subnet: 255.255.255.248 (which is /29, IIRC) > GW: 75.xx.xx.30 > > Comcast is faster, but is not dedicated. You should always get the same > speeds (or reasonable close) with Snnic. You may also have an SLA with Snnic. > I am sure you don’t have that with Comcast. That said, all use ISP’s are > shared traffic. It is either shared via the same wire, or with DLS shared at > the DSLAM or in all cases shared at the head office. It is very difficult for > an ISP with say 1,000 customers at 10megs each to pay for a 10G so they can > all have dedicated traffic. This gets worse as the number goes up. ISP’s > understand that not all users will use the bandwidth at the same time so they > have way less than they sell. For instance one service provider here locally > has a single OS3 (45Meg) link and offers a 6 meg internet connection. They > have a couple of hundred users. 200 x 6 = 1.2 Gigs. Way less than what they > have. However, the 45Meg link is very rarely saturated. The better business > oriented ISP’s will prioritize business customers over residential customers > and have a lower ration of what’s sold to what’s available. I can tell you > that Comcast Business in South Louisiana has a very good service and I have > never measured less than 10 down and 4 up. This beats your 3/3 hands down. > The same may not be able to true in your area as every area is different. > Comcast does not however offer to have a routed subnet as you are asking. The > provide 5 ip addresses that you can access directly on their modem. You can > get 14 address and subnet yourself, but that really waist a lot of IP > addresses. You could also setup to Bridge the DMZ and WAN and run a filtered > bridge setup. Wait, are you saying I could just pay Comcast for 14 addresses and create a routed subnet myself and not have them do it? Or could I just have them create for me a 2nd IP block of 1 IP, load that on the modem with my block of 5 and somehow created a routed subnet from the /31 to my /29 without them? so that pfSense is setup the correct way? Sorry for the confusion! -Jason _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
