Re: Re: FidoGazette Vol 13 n
  By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Mon Sep 09 2019 06:25 pm

 > Have you ever considered getting a price quote for a business-class Internet
 > connection? My experience has been that by the time you factor in the cost 
of  a
 > contract and/or the desperation of the sales rep wanting to give you a deal, 
it
 > might
 > be worth it?
 >
 > Nick

I don't know about him, but getting a good connection is only worth it if
you are running a business behind it. Then you may spare a fraction of
the bandwidth for your hobbies.

Here in Spain we used to have no problems with port filtering because
they were usually open by default. There was some traffic shappinh but
that is understandable. You don't really want people who is torrenting
porn to consume the bandwidth some other people might need for important
tasks (yes, talking from experience administrating a small network).
Sadly, IP scarcity has forced ISPs to put everybody behind CGNAT. Many
have no proper dual stack with ipv6 so that means you get no incomming
ports with some exceptions. I used to work behind a CGNAT that allowed
some port mapping/forwarding but it sucked because it was not very
reliable.

Nowadays I just have a deal wih my current boss and host some personal
hobbies of mine in a small DMZ in his business network. The alternative
was to rent a VPS or dedicated server (full colo is expensive) to it is
a very sweet situation.
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