Re: [tlug] FTTH ISP recommendation

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Quentin Arnaud wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
>   
> > Quentin Arnaud writes:
> >  > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> >  > > Why do you want to get rid of KDDI's gateway box?
> >  > >
> >  > It's all in Japanese, it's quite hard for me to do some NAT / port
> >  > forwarding with it's UI.
> >  > Also no traffic shaping. And finally I doubt it handles ftp traffic
> >  > well when you have a server insde your NAT (not tested yet) .
> >
> > Yeah, but why do you care?  Do your best to turn it into a bridge or
> > maybe a simple firewall to give the ssh script-kiddies one more hoop
> > to jump through, and then put the interesting stuff on your own box
> > inside.  90Mbps is not something to kick away lightly, and someday you
> > may appreciate having your own private DMZ.
> >     

The primary reason for running your own router is control.  Stability is 
another issue may effect you.  The router supplied by my first internet 
provider crashed a lot under load.  When I setup a openwrt router about 
3 years ago, router latency was the main issue.  Apparently to get 
higher throughput many routers cache a fair bit of data before sending.  
This isn't an issue when you are only concerned about throughput but can 
cause problems for low latency applications like video conferencing.  
Maybe current routers support QOS properly and so this might not be a 
problem anymore.

Edward