[TriLUG] ATT gigabit internet quick review

[Scott Miller via TriLUG]

I just signed up for ATT gigabit internet!

Price:

$70 / month

Installation:

Installation took a bit more than 4 hours.

Fiber line is brought to the house from a utility pole junction box,
which pulls from underground sourced fiber on the street.

(For now the fiber line is lying across the yard. ATT will come back
and trench the cable in a week or so.)

Under your house / crawlspace, a fiber -> ethernet box is installed
with 'property of ATT' stickers all over it.

The installer then takes cat5e from that box up to create an ethernet
outlet in your house.

ATT provided router:

The bad news.

The modem/router device is a Pace 5268AC. The firmware is a custom ATT
firmware which locks things down quite a bit. There is no bridge mode.
One is unable to set or change DNS servers away from the ATT default.

DNS servers:

68.94.156.11
68.94.157.11

There are a few workarounds I am testing out to use one's own preferred router.

The Pace 5268AC does have guest wifi and one can customize their own
wifi SSID and password.


IPv6:

IPv6 is provided via 6rd. Delegated prefix is: /64


Data cap:

There is no data cap anymore.


Google Fiber speed test:

http://imgur.com/a/j4Ocw


DNS:

ndxomains are indeed hijacked to an att search page, "powered by yahoo".

smiller at bruckner:~$ host sadfdsafdsfdsa.com
sadfdsafdsfdsa.com has address 198.105.244.130
sadfdsafdsfdsa.com has address 198.105.254.130
Host sadfdsafdsfdsa.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host sadfdsafdsfdsa.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Using grc.com's DNS benchmark shows that the provided DNS servers are
not that great. :/ Hopefully a BYO-router workaround will make things
better both for privacy as well as performance.

Thanks,