[Cialug] Century link fiber

Tue Oct 16 21:14:51 UTC 2018

Its good gear.

I am partial to the Unfi Line.

I have about 15 SMB’s clients on it now that I manage.  Their gear has been incredibly reliable.

That said, it isn’t Cisco, and doesn’t have the support of Cisco/Meraki.  Support is largely in the forums or slack channels.

As I said, I like the Unifi stuff because of the controller, in particular I like the cloud key as I can get to it remotely through UBNT’s.

John

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On Oct 16, 2018, at 16:09, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net<mailto:dave at 58ghz.net>> wrote:

I've been a lot freaked out about commodity routers for the last couple of
years and wanted to try something that didn't come out of the commodity
mold.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:06 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com<mailto:dchamp1337 at gmail.com>> wrote:

The Ubiquiti AP's are really nice. I've set up a few of them have never let
me down. We also use them at the Area515 makerspace.

Haven't used one of their routers yet but have heard good things.

-dc

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:00 PM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net<mailto:dave at 58ghz.net>> wrote:

I just bought an Edge Router X and AP pro for home.

Anyone have any issues with it?  Anything you really like or dislike?

:) Dave

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:53 PM Adam Hill <adam at diginc.us<mailto:adam at diginc.us>> wrote:

I opted to buy (not rent) the Zyxel C3000 when I signed up, just to
have
something that was a 'supported' modem/router, but I leave it off and
use
my own.  With gigabit fiber into the home they just plug in the
Ethernet
from the fiber box, which there is no added charge for.

Like Rob I took all the settings out of their modem and programmed them
into my Ubiquiti router.  VLAN 201 + PPPOE user & pass is the gist of
the
settings IIRC.

If I ever have any issues (I haven't yet) I can plug in their modem and
call up support.  Plus it acts as a backup/spare should I have a
Ubiquiti
issue.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:01 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com<mailto:dchamp1337 at gmail.com>>
wrote:

I used to work for an ISP, and did some evaluation on various modems.
There
can be a lot of difference in the speed you get depending on the
modem
/
router you're using. Some of the DSL modems that CenturyLink supplies
are
really slow.

I had the best luck with the un-branded Zyxel modems for ADSL / VDSL.
The
versions with the CenturyLink firmware were usually limited the
available
features, and they probably have a back-door on them that CL and who
knows
who else can get into. Also... the default configuration on some of
the
CL
modems does a permanent DHCP reservation for every device that ever
connects to them. If you set one up with a guest wifi at a business,
your
/24 subnet will fill up with reservations real fast.

My favorite experiment was taking two old modems in bridging mode,
and
strapping them to a mikrotik router with zip ties to make a bonded
modem.
For some reason that one never got out of the lab, but it worked
great.

-dc

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 2:39 PM Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com<mailto:don.ellis at gmail.com>>
wrote:

When Charter/Spectrum upgraded our network, I was tempted to get my
own
modem, however, since I'm paying for the modem anyway, and they
would
be
responsible for maintenance/repairs/replacement, I elected to get
their
modem.

There was an optional Router/WiFi unit at extra charge ($5/month).
I
found
a separate unit at MicroCenter. Comparing $5/month with buying my
own
with
a 3 year extended warranty, it looks like the separate piece is
less
expensive in the first three years; any life after that is gravy. I
think
the price with warranty was around $100-$120.

I have not been impressed with performance or features of
ISP-provided
routers. In more than one instance, I have connected a separate
router/WAP
to the unit provided by the ISP, whether modem or combo. If
successful
at
connecting the separate unit through the ISP's component, I get
more
control over routing and usually a more stable WiFi connection, all
with
more options. I haven't tried connecting to more recent versions of
ISP-provided combo units, but I have [misplace?] confidence that it
can
still be done. You should be able to turn off WiFi and just use
WiFi
on
the
aftermarket router.

--Don Ellis

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 7:16 PM Rob Cook <rdjcook at gmail.com<mailto:rdjcook at gmail.com>>
wrote:

They use a Zyxel C3000Z AIO crappy modem/router. I replaced mine
with a
Ubiquiti Edge Router X.

On Oct 13, 2018 6:55 PM, "chris rheinherren" <
c.rheinherren at gmail.com<mailto:c.rheinherren at gmail.com>>
wrote:

I think Century Link Fiber has the modem gateways with really bad
range
for
the Wifi portion.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 6:51 PM Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com<mailto:icepuck2k at gmail.com>>
wrote:

Does anyone know what CL use's for hardware? Is it just a modem
or
is
one
of those crappy all in one modem/routers? When I upgraded to my
40mbs
dsl
I
tried to explain all I wanted was a plain dsl modem like what
had
before.
they sent me an AIO instead. I never did figure out how to port
forward
through the damn thing.
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