[TriLUG] at&t fiber

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

In this thread I heard people saying you have to user their routers
and others mentioning slapping their modem to the AT&T router. What is
what?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Mark Sidell via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Another note on the modems...
>
> ATT has two different modems that they'll install with fiber, the NVG599
> and another one whose name I don't remember. When they first installed
> fiber at my house, they gave me the other one. I discovered that it refused
> to allow inbound ssh connections, something I need to access my servers.
> ATT was unable to offer any solution except to swap the problem modem with
> the NVG599. FWIW, I also found that configuring pass-through with the
> NVG599 was less confusing than with the other modem.
>
> Now, on to my afternoon project -- fixing the serious security
> vulnerabilities in the NVG.
>
> BTW, I've been happy with the fiber service. I have a business account with
> 5 fixed IPs, paying only a small premium over a residential account for the
> IPs. The service is actually cheaper than my old copper uverse service.
>
> Mark
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