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     Re: Re: FidoGazette Vol 13 n   
     By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Mon Sep 09 2019 06:25 pm   
      
    > Have you ever considered getting a price quote for a business-class Internet   
    > connection? My experience has been that by the time you factor in the cost   
   of  a   
    > contract and/or the desperation of the sales rep wanting to give you a   
   deal, it   
    > might   
    > be worth it?   
    >   
    > Nick   
      
   I don't know about him, but getting a good connection is only worth it if   
   you are running a business behind it. Then you may spare a fraction of   
   the bandwidth for your hobbies.   
      
   Here in Spain we used to have no problems with port filtering because   
   they were usually open by default. There was some traffic shappinh but   
   that is understandable. You don't really want people who is torrenting   
   porn to consume the bandwidth some other people might need for important   
   tasks (yes, talking from experience administrating a small network).   
   Sadly, IP scarcity has forced ISPs to put everybody behind CGNAT. Many   
   have no proper dual stack with ipv6 so that means you get no incomming   
   ports with some exceptions. I used to work behind a CGNAT that allowed   
   some port mapping/forwarding but it sucked because it was not very   
   reliable.   
      
   Nowadays I just have a deal wih my current boss and host some personal   
   hobbies of mine in a small DMZ in his business network. The alternative   
   was to rent a VPS or dedicated server (full colo is expensive) to it is   
   a very sweet situation.   
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