Tue Jun 15 22:32:44 PDT 2004
Been quite a while since I’ve dumped some info into one of these plan files. Anyway. Some notes:
Verizon Business ADSL a 1.5/364 can be had for about $40 a month if you can work through the hassles of getting it set up (3 weeks!). Compared to Comcast which Michael got up and running in about 3 hours, including a tech support call. I’m pretty amazed that Verizon gets away with this. Anyway – it all appears to work, performance is very close to the max rates according to the little applet thingie on www.dslreports.com. Also, the "Terms of Service" have no restrictions on running your own servers. Yea!
Learned a few things along the way of note:
- My little linksys access point doesn’t really like pushing data all the way across the street, which was a little surprising. We had it over at Michael’s house upstairs and could only get poor reception in our upstairs front room, and slightly worse reception downstairs at the front of the house to the point where I couldn’t quite keep a VNC tunnel open.
- To do cascading NAT, you need to not reuse the NATed address ranges. In other words, if you have a 192.164.0.0 network behind a NAT, don’t put another 192.164.0.0 network behind it, use a 10.0.1.0 network or something like that.
- Dynamic DNS from dyndns is a great deal at $40 a year, and it works seamlessly so far. I’m really impressed with how easy it was to get working and the little updater script had great install instructions and worked first time I tried it.
- Getting a Xbox to dual boot with a modchip is much harder than it sounds, but that’s a story for another time.