Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you.
I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!
Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
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Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone will probably roll something like this out in the metro areas and it will eat the NBN
I doubt it. I'm no expert, but isn't it illegal to provide non-NBN internet to any house that has NBN? I recall someone complaining that they had no internet at all for months, because the NBN wire got hooked up to their house, but not plugged into anything at the other end - then their internet company was legally obliged to disconnect their DSL because technically they had an NBN cable - it just wasn't plugged in t…
It's not illegal for a company to offer an alternative to the NBN. I think it is however mandatory for a provider who can service a dwelling with NBN to upgrade from a legacy technology (i.e. DSL) to the NBN.
This does not preclude other high-speed internet options servicing those dwellings.
For example, https://www.lightningbroadband.com.au offers or plans to offer 100/100 (actually, some pages have mentioned 200/200 but maybe that's coming later or business only). A salesperson explicitly told me they plan to service NBN-connected areas too but that they'll probably prioritise other non-NBN metro areas first, because the demand will be stronger.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#53Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!
$60/month now but I agree with all your points.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#54Interesting.. I've been very happy with Webpass for the past 8 or 9 years (though my building's crappy wiring can "only" support 100Mbit). A Webpass engineer I spoke to last week mentioned they're rolling out fiber to the building to provide redundancy for the wireless mesh. Surprised me as I could count on my fingers the number of outages webpass has had since I started using them. Perhaps it'll replace the wireless…
It might look like a mesh on a topology diagram but believe me, it has nothing in common with wireless "mesh" networking... I don't have insight into the exact configuration of webpass' routers but they're undoubtedly using fairly ordinary BGP and OSPF between nodes. The wireless links are exclusively high capacity point-to-point trunks.
It is not "mesh wireless" gear, but it is a mesh at the routing layer (ECMP). My old building had PtP wireless to multiple other buildings.
Edit: I always speculated the difference between 100Mbps and 200Mbps on-net buildings was if that particular location was multihomed.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#55Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!
My only complaint is that for home service there is no way to get a public IP address, so you've got to get an external server if you want to access your home computers from elsewhere on the Internet.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coming from australia and not familiar at all with Webpass... is the latency low? ie. could people use this for gaming internet connections?
As someone who used to live in Sydney and now in SF with Webpass... I can tell you that Webpass would be what a proper NBN rollout would look like. It's kind of amazing. It only costs $60/month and you just get an ethernet drop. No login, no metering, no shaping. Example latency: admin@RT-AC5300-E6A0:/tmp/home/root# ping -c 5 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=0 ttl=55 time=3.526…
And no public IP, which was really disappointing when I switched from AT&T Uverse.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#57I'm a Webpass customer. Pretty amazing service. Although lately they have been suffering from some slow speeds at peak times. I think its just growing pains due to large increases in their customer base. I believe it will be back to high speed soon.
speedtests put me at around 100Mbps consistently when its "fast" and about 20-30 Mbps when its slow.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#58Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!
My only complaint is that for home service there is no way to get a public IP address, so you've got to get an external server if you want to access your home computers from elsewhere on the Internet.
Earlier in this thread, it was mentioned they are offering IPv6. I'd expect those addresses to be public at least?
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
My only complaint is that for home service there is no way to get a public IP address, so you've got to get an external server if you want to access your home computers from elsewhere on the Internet.
Earlier in this thread, it was mentioned they are offering IPv6. I'd expect those addresses to be public at least?
I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to look into it.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#60I hope this reduces the cost of their business offerings. I love the service, and the home offering is the deal of the century, but $500/month for 50Mb/sec symmetric or $250/month for 20Mb/sec symmetric is hard to swallow for our business (or any other).
They offer faster service (gigabit and probably more) but what startup can pay 10k/month for their business internet?
What's worse is monkeybrains and webpass should seemingly compete on price for business offerings but it seems like they actually collude. Their pricing for businesses is exactly the same.