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Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
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Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#82I use Webpass. Get 600mbps on my wifi AC router. It's amazing and I'm super happy with it. Hoping with google fiber speed gets even faster.
Cool! What router/access point is that?
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Internal IPv6 addresses are publicly addressable on Webpass but you may have to enable it on your router.
If you have terminal access to your router and it supports iptables, you can manually enable forwarding for a specific port like this:
ip6tables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Note that if you're using this for Api callbacks like AWS Lamda, they do not support IPv6 and then your best bet is a VPN tunneled to your local device.
Good luck!
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious, why is it that business plans are so much more expensive than residential ones?
Price discrimination. Businesses tend to be more able to pay than home users.
if by discrimination you mean guarantees versus best-efforts. business class services, speaking generally, are less or not at all over subscribed while providing contractual guarantees to service performance and problem resolution.
residential is best effort. they'll do their best to keep it up and give you the speeds you pay for, but if it doesn't work out that way sometimes, well, they're sorry about that.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#85Huge 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.
Do you only need access for yourself? If so, you should really check out ZeroTier. I use it on my Android phone and Linux boxes and have been really happy with it.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm always intensely curious what residential (and these days, even business) customers want with a dedicated, publicly routable IPv4 address.
why were you disappointed?
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#87Huge 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!
Is that a good deal in the US ?
Wow, in France for $40 we got:
- 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area)
- Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France
- HD TV
- and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive
- for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited calls and 4G.
And people are still complaining...
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#88God, I hope the support doesn't end up like most other Google product's support. I have webpass and my heart dropped. My project fi experience has been bad enough already.
I work on Google Fiber. We have pretty good customer support; call us 24/7, someone in the US will help you with pretty much anything you want that's Fiber-related (WiFi too slow? TV remote not working? That sort of thing.)
I just hope the commitment to good service that Google Fiber has started with isn't trashed by foolish executives.
The state of customer dis-service in the USA is so strong that it seems pretty likely any company that has good service for awhile will shift resources into bigger paychecks for executives and fewer resources for customer support. I hope Google Fiber avoids this situation. Some companies do but not very many: Trader Joe's, Costco...
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#89Huge 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!
Is that a good deal in the US ? Wow, in France for $40 we got: - 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area) - Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France - HD TV - and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive - for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited ca…
I think you are confusing Megabits and Gigabits.
Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
#90Huge 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!
Is that a good deal in the US ? Wow, in France for $40 we got: - 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area) - Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France - HD TV - and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive - for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited ca…
Today I have 11Mbs internet in England. Before today it was the best I could get but today I was made up that my exchange just went live with 76Mbs fibre.
You guys kinda rained on my parade :(