Mmmmm, fiber :]

[life0riley]

Mmmmm, fiber :]

Do you have your own modem and router or is that supplied by CenturyLink?

Are you able to expand or add ports without making a service call?

[SteveRiley]

New router arrived. Now we're cookin'!

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I'm curious about what you said about PPPoE. Is there no router your side of the ONT? The connection between my router and modem is PPPoE too.

Do you have your own modem and router or is that supplied by CenturyLink?

What CenturyLink ("Clink") supplies for this service is purely a router. Yesterday the tech gave me a ZyXEL FR1000Z. They use it for 40 Mbps and 100 Mbps service. Just now he came to remove that and replace it with a Technicolor C2000T.

Besides PPPoE for subscriber authentication, Clink also requires that traffic be tagged with VLAN 201. You can use any router you want with Clink, so long as it can do PPPoE and also put the VLAN 201 tag on the WAN. That second requirement can limit your choice of routers. My existing router -- a Cisco RV220W -- can't do VLAN tagging on the WAN port. In fact, none of Cisco's small business routers appear to have this feature, which rather bums me out -- the rest of my home infrastructure is Cisco small biz gear.

I suppose I could put the C2000T into bridge mode and keep using my RV220W, but that seems unnecessary.

Are you able to expand or add ports without making a service call?

The C2000T has a built-in four port LAN switch. I'm using only one port from that, to connect to my Cisco SG300-10 switch that feeds every room in the house and the wireless access point stuck to the ceiling on the middle floor.

[GreyGeek]

Waaaaaaaaa....

$  time wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
--2014-12-23 17:10:41--  http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
Resolving mirror.pnl.gov (mirror.pnl.gov)... 192.101.102.2
Connecting to mirror.pnl.gov (mirror.pnl.gov)|192.101.102.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1472200704 (1.4G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso’

100%[==================================================================================================>] 1,472,200,704 1.81MB/s   in 10m 45s

2014-12-23 17:21:26 (2.18 MB/s) - ‘Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso’ saved [1472200704/1472200704]


real    [B]10m45.094s[/B]
user    0m2.719s
sys     0m20.813s
$

You're only 20 times faster than me!

But, let me guess ... your connection costs you $250/mo.

[MoonRise]

No where near that on U-Verse!

[SteveRiley]

But, let me guess ... your connection costs you $250/mo.

$109.95 per month. Plus $5.95 per month for a static IP address. I wanna get rid of Dyn and my dependency on their email relaying stuff. Clink's static range isn't blocked by Spamhaus and their ilk, and Clink has no port restrictions on their static range. Finally I can host my SOA, A, and MX records in my own DNS!

Note: this is the same as what I was paying Comcast for 105 Mbps (recently upgraded last week to 150 "for free").

[Feathers McGraw]

Plus $5.95 per month for a static IP address.

I don't get how ISPs justify this as a monthly fee... is there some kind of ongoing cost to them? I only had to pay a one-off admin fee.

Not that it's not worth it, I bet you were paying Dyn more than that!

[SteveRiley]

I don't get how ISPs justify this as a monthly fee... is there some kind of ongoing cost to them? I only had to pay a one-off admin fee.

Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous. Seems that all telco companies will look for any reason to squeeze you for a few bucks if you want something special. For example: if you have a regular land line phone in America, and you want your number not listed in that ancient thing called a phone book, you have to pay a small monthly fee, usually $2 or so.

It's not like having an unlisted number or a static IP address create extra burden or anything. It's just the telcos gouging you for wanting something other than their defaults.

Not that it's not worth it, I bet you were paying Dyn more than that!

Yep, the only thing I'd continue to use Dyn for would be domain registration. I'll probably transfer my domain to Network Solutions, from whom I bought my TLS certificate. Dyn appears to be transitioning into some kind of marketing email service.

[GreyGeek]

$109.95 per month. Plus $5.95 per month for a static IP address. I wanna get rid of Dyn and my dependency on their email relaying stuff. Clink's static range isn't blocked by Spamhaus and their ilk, and Clink has no port restrictions on their static range. Finally I can host my SOA, A, and MX records in my own DNS!

Note: this is the same as what I was paying Comcast for 105 Mbps (recently upgraded last week to 150 "for free").

WOW! For only 46$ more per month than I am paying for 25Mb/s. It makes me want to

I have some friends in France who tell me that they get 40Mb/s Internet, 200 channels of cable TV and a phone service with free calls anywhere in France for $40/mo. IMO, your deal blows that out of the water.

BTW, I installed that Fedora workstation as a guest OS on VirtualBox. Not bad! It uses straight Gnome2 and is fast and easy to use. KDE4 is still better than GnomeX, IMO. I may try adding KDE4 to that guest and see how it does.

[SteveRiley]

My buddies in Singapore and South Korea get gigabit for $30 a month. They're the ones getting the true deal!

Fedora 21 normally starts a session with the GNOME Shell (the new desktop first available in GNOME 3). If you're seeing the old GNOME 2 desktop, that's the fallback mode. Fallback is used if the graphics hardware can't do acceleration, which is usually the case in VirtualBox.

If you want KDE, it would probably be better to download the KDE ISO from Fedora's web site. Running two desktops in the same distro can get unwieldy, heh.

[charles052]

I read the title and thought it was about eating more fiber, like Raisin Bran or something. LOL

I'm not much of a techie I guess.

[NickStone]

I read the title and thought it was about eating more fiber, like Raisin Bran or something. LOL

I'm not much of a techie I guess.

There are certain telecoms companies here in the UK that advertise their broadband service as "super fast fiber". Whenever I see their vans or their adverts on TV I keep wanting to shout out "it's not fiber it's fiber-optic"

[Feathers McGraw]

There are certain telecoms companies here in the UK that advertise their broadband service as "super fast fiber".

I thought you were going to make a laxative joke!

The way technical terms are abused by advertisers is always frustrating.

[GreyGeek]

My buddies in Singapore and South Korea get gigabit for $30 a month. They're the ones getting the true deal!

sigh... If our Congress had only a fraction of their foresight...

Fedora 21 normally starts a session with the GNOME Shell (the new desktop first available in GNOME 3). If you're seeing the old GNOME 2 desktop, that's the fallback mode. Fallback is used if the graphics hardware can't do acceleration, which is usually the case in VirtualBox.

I don't know eough about Gnome to know what version I'm running in Fedora. It doesn't look like the old Gnome desktop. It has "Activity" in the upper left corner as the connection to apps, and in the upper right corner a click there gets you a box with several options, including sound, internet, log out and power down. It just says "Gnome" in the lower right corner.
I don't think what I am seeing is the "Unity" desktop, but as I wrote, I don't know much about Gnome.

If you want KDE, it would probably be better to download the KDE ISO from Fedora's web site. Running two desktops in the same distro can get unwieldy, heh.

No doubt, but I was wondering what would happen if I had them both installed, with the option to switch at run time, just for giggles.

[Snowhog]

sigh... If our Congress had only a fraction of their foresight...

In order for them to have foresight, they'd have to have a forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain, or, in other words, they'd have to have a brain!

[MoonRise]

Which none of them have; House and Senate all!