Greetings, All.
I'm in a similar situation to rcoaster. I have dual DSL bonded lines ("business grade") to my house, a few static IPs and my two "landlines" via Sonic. I run my own email & web servers. I, too, received the email from Sonic about AT&T and the copper lines and extra fees with a dubious future for continued service. I saw Sonic trucks roaming in my neighborhood at the beginning of this year and it seems fiber is available in my area, according to the Sonic Availability address lookup page.
I have so many questions, but let me see if I can distill them to just a few (Ya, I see I failed on that. Sorry!):
Q: The fiber connect on my end would be "ethernet" via an RJ45 jack? I presume I would plug this into my firewall or router? What if I have more than one machine I need to be public facing (eg: a mail server and web server and one more host I use for direct internet testing)? Can I plug this RJ45 into a hub (a dumb router) and have multiple machines plug into that? Will they each get an IP address or are we consumers only allowed one IP address?
Q: As I understand it, this fiber connect is "DHCP" only with no option for static IPs. Not even if I'm ordering this as a Businees grade connection? That's what my DSL is now. Is there really no option for this kind of usage? Sonic's description for a Busness fiber connect (called Fusion Fiber?) isn't very clear on the subject.
Q: Phone lines over this appear to be VOIP. How is that configured? I have two phone lines (one to a base unit with answer machine and several wireless handsets, and the other plugs into my printer for fax...yes, I still use fax once in a blue moon, but it's really just a secondary phone line). Do I have to replace all of that with VOIP phones? What about the fax? How would the phone lines be "registered" with a specific "phone"? Are there VOIP base phones with multiple hand units (I haven't researched this yet)?
Q: Installation: will it be possible to have both my DSL lines and a fiber connection to the same house at least for a short time? I would need some time to migrate over to using some Dynamic DNS service for my public hosts, so chopping off DSL to get fiber would interrupt that which would be a real problem for me to fix quickly. Once I'd gotten that done I'd drop the DSL connection, of course.
Q: IPv6: what would be given to hosts? A prefix only? An address within a prefix? Is the prefix fixed it will that change too? Is there an RA to supply the next hop gateway or is that a fixed IP within a prefix? DHCPv6 or SLAAC?
Sorry for all the questions, but I have to know all of this to make a plan moving forward.
I'm in a similar situation to rcoaster. I have dual DSL bonded lines ("business grade") to my house, a few static IPs and my two "landlines" via Sonic. I run my own email & web servers. I, too, received the email from Sonic about AT&T and the copper lines and extra fees with a dubious future for continued service. I saw Sonic trucks roaming in my neighborhood at the beginning of this year and it seems fiber is available in my area, according to the Sonic Availability address lookup page.
I have so many questions, but let me see if I can distill them to just a few (Ya, I see I failed on that. Sorry!):
Q: The fiber connect on my end would be "ethernet" via an RJ45 jack? I presume I would plug this into my firewall or router? What if I have more than one machine I need to be public facing (eg: a mail server and web server and one more host I use for direct internet testing)? Can I plug this RJ45 into a hub (a dumb router) and have multiple machines plug into that? Will they each get an IP address or are we consumers only allowed one IP address?
Q: As I understand it, this fiber connect is "DHCP" only with no option for static IPs. Not even if I'm ordering this as a Businees grade connection? That's what my DSL is now. Is there really no option for this kind of usage? Sonic's description for a Busness fiber connect (called Fusion Fiber?) isn't very clear on the subject.
Q: Phone lines over this appear to be VOIP. How is that configured? I have two phone lines (one to a base unit with answer machine and several wireless handsets, and the other plugs into my printer for fax...yes, I still use fax once in a blue moon, but it's really just a secondary phone line). Do I have to replace all of that with VOIP phones? What about the fax? How would the phone lines be "registered" with a specific "phone"? Are there VOIP base phones with multiple hand units (I haven't researched this yet)?
Q: Installation: will it be possible to have both my DSL lines and a fiber connection to the same house at least for a short time? I would need some time to migrate over to using some Dynamic DNS service for my public hosts, so chopping off DSL to get fiber would interrupt that which would be a real problem for me to fix quickly. Once I'd gotten that done I'd drop the DSL connection, of course.
Q: IPv6: what would be given to hosts? A prefix only? An address within a prefix? Is the prefix fixed it will that change too? Is there an RA to supply the next hop gateway or is that a fixed IP within a prefix? DHCPv6 or SLAAC?
Sorry for all the questions, but I have to know all of this to make a plan moving forward.
Statistics: Posted by doctorfb — Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:34 pm