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re: What are the downsides of switching to AT&T Fiber? (For a business)
Posted on 6/17/22 at 8:18 pm to Joshjrn
Posted on 6/17/22 at 8:18 pm to Joshjrn
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short of some frickery, you can’t use your own router/gateway.
I guess that depends on how you define frickery. You will probably need to change some settings on the modem to work with your router. I've used AT&T fiber through a PC with proxy software, I don't see why a router couldn't do the same thing.
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Posted on 6/17/22 at 8:21 pm to SlowFlowPro
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I will get 300 plan w AT&T for $95/month (For now at least) and a $300 gift card.
Just got this today for $50 (residential) with the gift card
Posted on 6/18/22 at 8:26 am to SlowFlowPro
How does your current service get there? If they already have Cat5e or better run, you should be able to jump on that. Not familiar with suddenlnk (is that who you said, I'll go back and look shortly) so not sure if that would be delivered via UTP, coax, or wireless.
Posted on 6/18/22 at 11:43 am to mdomingue
They have a similar hub in the equipment room, but I ran coax myself from that hub to my office and made a coax outlet in my office. I ran another coax from that to my modem (previously they wanted my modem and router in the equipment room and I wanted to hardwire some of my computers so that wouldn't work).
Posted on 6/18/22 at 1:21 pm to SlowFlowPro
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My sweet is located a few offices away from the closet where the fiber will originate.
Nice that you can work close to her.
This is a fairly traditional office building with drop ceilings and/or attic space? Most commercial buildings are infinitely reconfigurable. When ATT started pushing fiber for my office, they (for free) sent out an engineer to look and make sure it could be done. It required a small building modification (a small hole drilled through a firewall that the building owner was happy to accommodate). Then they came in and hooked from the street to the network closet of the building and from that closet to my networking closet.
I have a redundant internet setup in my office- Both a cable and a fiber provider, and both were basically responsible (and happy) to get the lines needed from essentially the far end of the building to my suite. Our building has probably 12 or so tenants, and cabling from the network closet traverses at least 4 other offices/suites before resting in my office. From there, it goes into my networking equipment- about 28 or so drops, half of which are phones and 2 access points which covers an 8,000ish sqft office. So, from your later post where you say you ran coax from your office to that office, you should, at worst, probably be able to replace that coax with a cat6.
Let’s just say that’s not an option, you’re basically talking about a room in a house with no wall/ceiling access, and the only way you can do anything is to connect the two rooms with the pre-run coax. If that’s the case, then you just grab yourself a “MoCa adapter” pair and go: ATT ONT/router—>Ethernet—>MoCa—>coax—> your office—> Ethernet—> some form of wireless access point/switch/one computer/etc.
Posted on 6/18/22 at 1:29 pm to Hopeful Doc
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Nice that you can work close to her.
Voice to text ain't what it used to be.
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This is a fairly traditional office building with drop ceilings and/or attic space?
Yes.
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When ATT started pushing fiber for my office, they (for free) sent out an engineer to look and make sure it could be done.
OK cool. Shouldn't be an issue then.
Posted on 6/20/22 at 7:37 am to SlowFlowPro
They just laid fiber lines in my neighborhood. I’m switching from Suddenlink solely because of how piss poor Suddenlink’s Laura response was. I was out of internet for 3 months after the storm. I know they’re all evil, but at least the AT&T folks got internet in a reasonable amount of time after the storms.
Posted on 6/20/22 at 8:26 am to Joshjrn
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have zero complaints about ATT Fiber, but short of some frickery, you can’t use your own router/gateway.
Idk about business but at home I just had to put their router in IP pass through mode and my Eeros work fine
Posted on 6/20/22 at 8:51 am to Hulkklogan
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Idk about business but at home I just had to put their router in IP pass through mode and my Eeros work fine
IP passthrough works ok. You still need to turn its wifi off and firewall features off, though.
One thing that bothers a lot of people is with no true bypass mode, the at&t gateway is still monitoring all packets (they send the data back to the data centers) and the gateways still limit all the sessions. The gateways have a very small session limit. It is fine for 99.9% of the users but bothers the enthusiasts.
Also, there will be hidden wifi networks from the at&t gateway that you just can't turn off no matter what you do.
This post was edited on 6/20/22 at 8:52 am
Posted on 6/22/22 at 8:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
AT&T
Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:42 pm to notsince98
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IP passthrough works ok. You still need to turn its wifi off and firewall features off, though.
One thing that bothers a lot of people is with no true bypass mode, the at&t gateway is still monitoring all packets (they send the data back to the data centers) and the gateways still limit all the sessions. The gateways have a very small session limit. It is fine for 99.9% of the users but bothers the enthusiasts.
Also, there will be hidden wifi networks from the at&t gateway that you just can't turn off no matter what you do.
My experience with business fiber is that you have to deal with none of that nonsense.
They put in their Cisco router and tell you your IP info and you then run your own router, firewall, wifi, etc...
This post was edited on 6/22/22 at 9:45 pm
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