Post date: 22-Dec-2010
Someone from British Telecom called asking me if I would like to multiply by 5 my broadband speed for the same cost. Difficult to refuse is it not? As usual, nothing is simple in my household having quite a lot of computers, both Windows and Linux, a wired house, 2 daughters who use Wifi and an inherent distrust of routers butchered by ISPs. I spent a couple of days doing battle with a new configuration.
Update January 2019:
In the event I did eventually decide to drop the Netgear Prosafe FVS318G in favour of a Draytek 2860. It promised much better bandwidth and more facilities with the downside of considerable complexity in the setup. It also handles IPV6 - well, sort-of, mostly... For example, it supports dynamic dns, but only for IPv4. Why, you might ask, would ever want dynamic DNS for IPV6 since the address range is so large that ISP can hand out static /64 range at least as explained by the RIPE best practice IPV6 addressing (section 5 being the key)?
<rant>My ISP being British Telecom that more or less automatically means that "worse practice" has been chosen whenever possible i.e. change the IPV6 address on every login i.e. every power outage (we get a lot). Thus screwing any thoughts of having your "Internet of things" accessible by a static IP, even using IPV6 addressing. It would appear that BT can check if I am a current user but are totally incapable of remembering a 64 bit number that they could allocate to my house. <\rant>.