I don't need a VPS anymore

Re:I don't need a VPS anymore by toast0 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @02:24AM (#30786845)

I'm in the metro area around Seattle (across the sound), and my CenturyLink bonded pair syncs at 92M/15M (it was 87M/11M but it mysteriously changed last November; pricing tier is 80M/unspecified). Although there are a lot of places where the speeds are what you quoted, if they'll install for you at all. It always shocks people when I quote my speeds though... but Comcast won't service my property even though they service my neighbors and are on the poll. My county's PUD has a reasonable fiber program, but the install costs are too high / too much hassle because I'd need to trench down a long driveway to the street.

Anyway, the speeds are OK, but PPPoE is terrible (and I hear they run PPPoE over fiber around here too), and at least my Remote Terminal has no battery, only utility power and utility power on this side of the sound doesn't have a lot of nines. I've got a LTE hotspot to failover to, but the cell towers get iffy when the utility power goes out too.

Anyway, I feel your pain. I run servers in my house, but I have to run a VPS for my 'important' stuff.

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Re:I don't need a VPS anymore by btgeekboy on Thursday March 24, 2022 @03:00AM (#30787008)

> I hear they run PPPoE over fiber around here too

Yeah, the old CenturyLink fiber installs have PPPoE. New installs under the Quantum brand are plain DHCP, but still on VLAN 201. (Perhaps to discourage people from accidentally plugging in their router wrong? Not sure.)

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