Nice. Google has been installing in my town for 1.5 years and still no service. What a tease.
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just had my fiber installed.. amazing!
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Nice. Google has been installing in my town for 1.5 years and still no service. What a tease.
People say this kind of thing all the time. Except that HardForum is not "The Average Consumer".
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I'm not far from Delton.
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Exactly what I was thinking....
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I also have a gigabit connection. It sounds amazing on paper but in real life, most servers won't dish out more than 60MB/s on average I find. 
I'd just be happy with any one I could stream video on, and have it be reliable without stuttering, These days. Centurylink in Rural GA (and there is only 1 area with it) really sucks, and unfortunately, they are my only option as my wife won't let me drop terrestrial telephone , and satellite will be too expensive.
Supposedly, I have 8 down, 1.5 up; but it crawls anytime we try to use any streaming video, have to let it buffer 10 minutes or so to make sure we are good typically.
Supposedly, I have 8 down, 1.5 up; but it crawls anytime we try to use any streaming video, have to let it buffer 10 minutes or so to make sure we are good typically.
I have 200/20 now. 200 down is adequate enough for me 80% of the time but the upload is severely lacking for my needs. 500/500 would be perfect if at a significantly reduced Google Fiber price but they charge $50 for 100/100 while charging $70 for 1k/1k.I also have a gigabit connection. It sounds amazing on paper but in real life, most servers won't dish out more than 60MB/s on average I find.
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The biggest killer is the fact that ISPs don't allow servers, I wish they would stop that BS. I wish there was more people that would fight for that actually, that should be part of net neutrality, you should be able to use your connection for anything you want. ISPs should also be forced to provide static IP/blocks as requested (at extra reasonable charge). My ISP for example does not even provide static IPs so even if they did allow servers I'd have to use a separate/leased server for DNS anyway.I also have a gigabit connection. It sounds amazing on paper but in real life, most servers won't dish out more than 60MB/s on average I find.
I run servers via my ISP (TWC, whom I despise) w/ dynamic IP; I use DynDNS to keep my domain names pointing at my IP. A long time ago they used to block certain ports but now I get whatever I want through.
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Did you see if your ISP offers a "business" connection? That usually allows servers.
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They do... but only over DSL, or T1 etc. Ridiculously ass backwards, but I see why they do it. Fibre is rather cheap for what it is, so if they offered it to businesses, the ones that are paying thousands per month for fractional T1s and other such circuits would switch to fibre for a fraction of the cost.
While I know you can use dyndns and stuff, I'm talking about a proper setup, where you have an actual static IP, perhaps even a block of IPs, so you can host stuff on multiple IPs, host a real DNS server etc... If you use DynDNS then you can't host your own DNS (it takes about 24-48h to change a DNS server IP in registrar records).
That said, I can't really complain with the super good deal I got at OVH. A Xeon based server for under $100/mo. Most providers' entry level are Celerons with under a gig of ram and 100GB disk and START at <$100/mo.