Re: [tlug] Recommendations for ISP and router upgrades

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 14/5/21 5:19 pm, Stefan A. wrote:
> Like many others, I've experienced a sharp drop in internet speeds
> since last year. I'm on a 100 Mbps NTT DSL connection which works well
> during the day but slows to a crawl on evenings and weekends. I
> recently arranged for an upgrade to 1 Gbps Hikari in early June. But in
> order to eliminate as many bottlenecks as possible, I'm also looking
> into changing my ISP and, possibly, router and was hoping TLUG might
> have advice for what to pick?
>
> It seems one key issue causing slowdown on NTT connections is PPPoE
> congestion. The solution advertised by many ISPs is switching to IPv6
> IPoE plans. But my understanding is that those require routers
> supporting technologies like "DS-lite" available only on Japan-specific
> devices[1] which limits options in terms of performance/features. So
> I'd be keen to know what setups have worked for other TLUG members.

I have been using Asahi Net over b-flets 1-Gbps without any major 
issues.  You will get rate limited if you use up all available bandwidth 
but I haven't had major issues with everyone on netflix.  I use a Linux 
server as a router.  I would be interested to hear what you end up doing 
and how it performs.  I looked at setting up IPv6 IPoE a while ago but 
couldn't afford to break my network while I was working out how to 
configure it.

Edward