[TriLUG] Google fiber

[Michael Marley via TriLUG]

Just curious, what method are you using to do the swap-out?  It's been a 
while, but when I researched it a while back, the only methods I could 
find required manual intervention to restore connectivity if power was 
lost or the router got rebooted or something.

Also, since you mention "NAT box" I should add that Google Fiber offers 
a /56 of native IPv6, so (for sites supporting the current version of 
the Internet protocol, anyway) you don't need NAT at all!  AT&T fiber 
(again, when I last checked) offered only a /64 of 6rd, which is a 
tunnel and also isn't a large enough prefix for more than one subnet.

Google Fiber certainly hasn't been a disappointment for me.  I get the 
advertised speed (full duplex), a /56 of native IPv6, a routable legacy 
IP, you can (now, officially) use your own router without any 
tomfoolery, and there haven't been any reliability issues.

Michael

On 12/3/2020 14:51, Daniel Sterling via TriLUG wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Wes Garrison via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> Google Fiber has been a real disappointment for a lot of folks.
> Google fiber's primary function has been to keep AT&T from charging
> $130 a month for their fiber in competing markets.
>
> Other than price, AT&T fiber seems the better choice, it's been
> rock-solid for me, and it's easy to swap out the AT&T CPE for your own
> linux NAT box.
>
> -- Dan