AAISP?
- From: Nicholas Thomas <ku.gro.snagap-erihskroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 22:12:22 +0100
Right, as you (probably ;) ) know, I'm with Zen (MaxDSL/standard) at the
moment, & very happy with their service. However, I would like to get
the full 832Kbps upload, preferably without doubling my current rental
(which is £34.99)!
Browsing around, I came across AAISP, who seem to be the "kind of" ISP I
would go for. In particular, I'm looking at their "Max 2" and "Max 3"
Premium packages, and considering Max 1 Premium - depending on the
extent to which I can curb my partner's P2P usage (which is the *only*
program using significant bandwidth in the 'peak hours', as far as I can
tell). Prior to doing anything else, I've set my router's QoS to keep
that at 10% of maximum bandwidth, and told my firewall to drop any of
the packets in question at peak hours. Naughty me ;)
First question - the P2P program she uses seems to open ports between
3000 and 5000 for data xfer between nodes. So I've used that complete
range for QoS and firewall rules, and set it to be specific to her IP.
Does anyone know of any standard Windows internet services that are
likely to be crippled by that? Or any other commonly-used (by
non-computer-literate folk ;) ) applications that will almost certainly
throw a wobbler? I appreciate, it's a broad range, and I should probably
go and RFC it, or something, but I thought I'd pick the excellent brains
on here first ;).
Next, does anyone have any experience with AAISP & their service, etc?
Reading their website, it sounds almost too good to be true... and I'm
well aware of what that often means... specifically, I'm interested in
the level of know-how of the tech guys, the robustness (or lack
thereof!) of their network, amount of faffing about I'm likely to expect
from accounts, etc...
Thirdly, and somewhat more generally, I notice that they've got native
IPv6 connections available, which is something I would really like to
have a play with :D. The downside, of course, is that I know almost
nothing about IPv6, except that I'd end up with a /48 block (corr!) if I
went for it. So:-
1. I assume it's a dual-stack connection?
2. Currently my router only supports IPv4. Being poor again right now,
I'd probably settle for setting up a PPPoE forward on my current router
to a PC Engines WRAP that I've got, and set it up as an IPv4/IPv6
router. That's all, obviously, "non-trivial", and could take a while for
me to work out. In the meantime, would I still be able to use the IPv4
Internet with just the IPv4 router?
3. Just how easy is IPv6 to set up? This is a mixed Linux/Windows XP
(SP2, I *think*)/Windows 2000 (no idea as to SP) network. Presumably,
each PC would have two addresses for each interface - one ipv6, one
ipv4? So incompatible PC's (like the 2000 one, AFAICT) would just have
the single ipv4, and function perfectly well on the ipv4 backbone?
4. Is there actually any benefit (except for a slightly geeky feeling of
power at having so many IPv6 addresses at one's disposal) to getting
IPv6 at this point in time?
Ta muchly... :)
xF,
....Nick
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