Yeah +1 William. I have an Optus 100/2 HFC service at home and the resigrade modem they gave me was complete shit. As near as I could figure out it would limit the number of allowed NAT entries per IP on the inside of the NAT.
Result was you would load Google maps on the Mac in 3D mode, it would part load then that machine was essentially a brick ( can't sign into hangouts or anything else ). Meanwhile everything else on the network is A-OK. I put the modem into bridge mode and used a Cisco 1921 as the router doing the NAT - no dramas at all. A lot of people malign HFC but I'm pretty sure most of the issues are people being stuck on DOCSIS 1/2.0 modems or with otherwise shitty CPE. On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 at 18:32 William Luu <will....@gmail.com> wrote: > You can set that modem to bridge mode than then use another router that > all your devices behind that. > > It's an option if you want better wifi than from that Netgear modem. > > — > Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox> > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks folks, that help confirm the chat in the forums. If the IP changes >> at monthly intervals, perhaps after a power failure or something else rare >> then I can live with just updating my 6 DNS records at VentralIP manually. >> I don't want to go back to using something like DynDns, as I used them >> about 10 years ago and they went from free to $10/month, but the worst >> thing is that it's just more *stuff* to manage and remember. >> >> I have no choice of modem, they gave me a "slab" Netgear Gateway Max with >> pretty blinking lights. >> >> *GK* >> >> On 28 October 2015 at 18:17, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) <g...@greglow.com> wrote: >> >>> Yep correct - rarely changes - just get a reliable DDNS service and a >>> decent modem/router that "gets" DDNS. We use a DOCSUS 3 modem in bridge >>> mode then have a Billion box plugged into it. Seems to work well and we can >>> get to our NAS through it just fine. However, bit by bit we're moving it >>> all to Azure anyway so hope soon to not care about local IP address. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> Dr Greg Low >>> SQL Down Under >>> +61 419201410 >>> 1300SQLSQL (1300775775) >>> >>> > On 28 Oct 2015, at 5:11 PM, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Folks, I had a Telstra cable modem installed this morning, but I >>> haven't switched over to it yet because I don't know how it allocates IP >>> addresses. I will have to update my DNS records to point the world to my >>> home server. Web searches hint that the IP only changes if the modem is >>> disconnected for "an extended period of time". Some hint that this period >>> is days. Some people hint that the IP is "sticky" and will rarely change in >>> practise. Can anyone confirm that this is actually the cable IP behaviour? >>> > >>> > Greg K >>> >> >> > -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
