I been waiting a long time and gigabit fiber is finally in my area but it’s from ATT which I know are first the jump on tiered internet and data caps etc. I run a site off my spectrum internet home services and spectrum ain’t too keen on it. Is ATT the same? Are there any downsides to ATTs home fiber?
I host a website behind ATT fiber, but I use cloudflare tunnels which means I don’t open any ports on the router. I don’t know of any instances of ATT banning customers over hosting a website, but I do know they block SMTP (port 25) for spam reasons.
On a home account I have the required bgw320 box and use ip passthrough mode to my real router.
Works fine almost all the time but once in a while my router loses its dhcp lease from the at&t box.
I wouldn’t run a business on it.
ATT Fiber is not the same as the cellular. It’s totally uncapped and it’s only minor limitation is you can’t fully go with your own router. It’s not as great as Sonic but it’s light years ahead of everything else. Pretty affordable. Doesn’t usually have a contract.
ATT fiber at home.
I have a Plex server. Not sure if that counts. I hate the modem ATT sends you and have DMZ’d it, then have my own Ubiquiti equipment. I use that to open up the necessary port. Been zero issues for folks I share that with.
Other home services, I just VPN into my network and use Afraid FreeDNS for Dynamic DNS hosting. That has worked great.
If you’re hosting for customers and getting paid I wouldn’t. SLA isn’t there with residential offerings, I hosted pre-prod development environments for customers for a couple years out of my house but moved into a data center when I started working on getting production workloads. I currently have a mesh of 6 ISPs, 2 uplinks,that are load balanced and the NOC will shift load to any of the ISPs if any issues. Haven’t been able to grow it past myself but it makes good money for the amount of work I put into it.
Get a SOHO account with a static IP… All ToS issues disappear.
I do all kinds of stupid shit on my att fiber. Multiple sub domains, arrs, plex, torrents behind a vpn, usenet.
It’s symmetrical 1G and the only reason I went with it was because it DIDNT have any data caps. Edit: I turned off wifi (haven’t DMZ’d it like the other poster) and turned on IP-pass through to my pfsense router. Had no issues. My WAN IP hasn’t changed since I’ve had the service. And all of my hosted game servers are working np as well
I have AT&T 1 Gig. Do about 6-8TB a month. I have an Unraid computer running a couple websites and managing Dynamic DNS.
Also have another file sharing server that routes all traffic through another remote server using Wireguard. That one does probably half of the bandwidth, but it’s all masked through wireguard. Which I assume the ISP is happy to wash their hands of. Basically the same as a VPN, but acts like a native Linux local network connection.
Have another server running plex that friends and family use periodically. That one isn’t behind any special protection. Just port forward.
I do occasionally get situations where computers in the house can’t access my own websites for several minutes, but not all computers in the house are affected as the same time and if I use my cell phone on just cellular, it works. So I assume that’s a DNS issue or NAT’ing issue with the routers in the house.
But overall, zero complaints. Saved me about $70 a month finally not having to rent a storage server with lots of storage and lots of bandwidth. Can just put a file host in my house. I also have the option for 2G and 5G fiber, but can’t really think of the usage case for it other than the arm flexing.
Most isps frown on consumer accounts hosting. I have a Comcast business account for this reason. We had to get them to open port 25 for us and static ips. I’ve been doing it since 2006.
There are perks to business accounts like 24 hour sla. They pay us for downtime past that.
It’s expensive though and we have to use their router to get static IPs. (440 a month for 1.25g/35mbps)
have a static ip v4 with att and host icecast and nginx
Cox blocks 80
AT&T has 80 and 443 open
If it was against TOS they would block it.
One distinction you could make is that hosting a personal blog is not a business. But hosting your yahoo dot com startup is and could degrade other paying customers for the network setup done for residential.
That’s when they start sniffing. Traffic increases and customers starting to complain the service is not working.
Ahh yeah I have 2 sites and one uses cloudflare tunnels
I was just upgraded to a BGW320 recently. I plan on using this to set it to passthrough so I can use an OPNSense firewall.
Thanks to /u/krowvin for the guide.
It is possible to bypass the ATT CPE on Fiber. However it is a bit involed and the needed SFP is expensive. Search for the 8311 discord, it has all the details.
Awesome thanks for sharing
How much extra is a static address with ATT?
Yeah that’s what I do
In theory the bgw320 could still get it’s state table? maxed out under very heavy load but I’ve never come close.
Not all models are always bypassable. And it’s unclear what happens if they eventually find out you did.
I think that would be the case for most home labbers. When you start trying to run a business I could see it having much more traffic.
Although using geoblocking can help reduce sessions depending on your use.