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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • You could always get a tunneled V6 line but it’s a lot of hassle for something you should have by default.

    Us europoors may not have golden toilet seats and medical insurance, or V8 Chevvies, or American Size Mayonnaise, but we have our 2a02:7892:1234:::/64!!!

    Monopolistic control of buildings by one ISP is illegal in most Euro countries :D

  • If I showed you my WAN-side firewall logs you’d have a panic attack. I have a /29 block and about 10 scans tap one IP or another every second. It’s part of being on the internet.

    Your domestic home router experiences the exact same thing. Every moment of every day.

    Will you report every scan? Every Chinese IP? Every US IP? It’s completely common place to have someone ‘knock on the door’.

    Get off IPv4 anyway and onto IPv6. Good luck to them finding you by chance in there.

  • Sure, in the UK we have very strict rules around competition law and broadband access. Here, fibre businesses lay fibre to premises (and are paid to do so). Then, a customer can order from any number of broadband providers, and the company who originally laid the fibre lease that line out at wholesale prices. The broadband operator runs ‘over the top’ of whoever installed the fibre.

    That way, the fibre installer makes money over time, gently and progressively. All broadband companies and smaller ‘Alt-Nets’ as we call them, have an equal opportunity to a customer base. Finally the customer has the choice to find services matching their needs and price points. Pay a lot get a lot, pay less get less.

    I think I have a choice of 6. Names which come to mind are EE, Vodafone, Virgin, Trooli, Cuckoo and Orange.