[aklug] Re: Fast Downloads in Anchorage

From: Damien Hull <dhull@section9.us>
Date: Mon Sep 14 2015 - 15:48:31 AKDT

I see interesting times in our future. Well, mostly for you Leif. ISP hell
;)

It's nice that the ISP's like GCI are offering blazing fast internet. It
just sucks that I can't connect at that speed.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> wrote:

> You've touched on a huge problem.
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> Yes, there are a big number of SOHO devices that support 1G WAN-side.
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> Many of them can't bridge that much traffic wire-speed, though, especially
> when performing NAT.
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> The next generation of Home-Gateway devices is rapidly nearing, though,
> and they're more than capable of 1G speeds
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> from WAN to LAN, and multi-stream 802.11ac WiFi as well.
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> BUT - I've got a mini-ATX home-brewed firewall with PCI gig ports, and I'm
> still concerned about through-put.
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> But the real concern, of course, is what happens when you have a few
> thousand, or a few tens-of-thousands of
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> 1Gb/s-connected devices - with a potential max of the mostly
> industry-standard 20:1 downstream:upstream ratio - of 50mb/s
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> all sending DDoS traffic outbound towards some poor unsuspecting server…
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> *From:* aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Damien Hull
> *Sent:* Monday, September 14, 2015 3:12 PM
> *To:* Scott A. Johnson
> *Cc:* gstrother@gmail.com; Aklug
> *Subject:* [aklug] Re: Fast Downloads in Anchorage
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> I have to respond to this. Your ISP can say they have super fast Internet.
> Does your firewall / router support it? I don't know if any home firewall /
> router systems will support Gigabit Internet. It's expensive to get
> enterprise level firewalls that would support this.
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> At the moment I think GCI is selling something customers can't use. Just
> my 2 cents.
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Scott A. Johnson <
> scott.a.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> (Yes I know this email chain is 10 years old....)
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> How's this for some nostalgia?! 10 years ago we got all excited when GCI
> rolled out 5Mbit speeds! Now, gigabit is supposed to be here within the
> next 90 days. How things change in a decade. :)
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> Cheers,
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> Scott
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> On Monday, September 19, 2005, George Strother <gstrother@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I just signed up for GCI's 5mb internet last week.. currently have ACS (pay
> for 960/320 but never get over 55K/s down)..
> You have to sign up for GCI cable TV/local phone.. after all the bells and
> whistles (and taxes) it was just under $140 dollars a month.
> Still though, the local telco companies are going to have to change or
> they
> are going to lose a good amount of their internet business.
> George Strother
> Fort Richardson MWR IMO
> On 9/18/05, Robert Crowe <forge@mtaonline.net> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy,
> > Obviously GCI changed their internet package. It used to be they had a
> > monthly cap that was woefully low if you downloaded music (with
> > sharpmusique for linux to access fairplay) or video files. They changed
> > eh? I think I need to research this. I use MTA as well and it adds a
> hefty
> > $50 to my bill and if they need my business than they need to step it up.
> > Bob
> >
> > Geez. And I'm still stuck here with stingy MTA - both at home and
> > work. The highest speed they go is 768 (which I still have yet to get
> > over 70 KB/s on), and they still have the 10 GB download limit. You can
> > get 4-8MB speeds if you get DTV - but if you are a business, you can't
> > get that. So bottom line is, they have _no_ decent internet packages
> > for businesses.
> >
> > For the same price as what we're paying MTA for 768, we could be getting
> > 10Mbps and no limit with GCI. If they would just run their lines across
> > the street, but we've been asking them about that for over 5 years now
> > with no progress.
> >
> > </rant>
> >
> > Justin
> >
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