On 8/3/12 8:56 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net> wrote:
Yes the easier way to do it is have your subnet routed to someone that is willing to colo your router, or provide your with something like NHRP, and use a 87x on your brand new unnamed Cable/DSL provider to create a NHRP tunnel for it.
We have many customers which required that kind of tunnel to bypass some belligerent TelCo.
But if you're going to drop your T1 for Cable/DSL get 2 of them using different technology and from different provider (aka 1 Cable and 1 DSL =D).
I'm doing this. Works well most of the time. A couple months ago we had major storm related outages in the area that persisted a couple of days. Internet service on both lines dropped out after 12 hours. It seems the telcos and cable companies don't consider the commodity Internet part of their equipment to be something which needs electricity during an extended grid outage. Cox. Verizon. I'm looking at you.
Most don't, and for the price being paid on commodity connections I feel indifferent about it. The central plant days are mostly gone; there's fiber huts everywhere and not enough trucks/manpower (in my area a lineman sits in his truck and reads a book while tethered to the power kiosk) to run them all if the outage is too widespread for too long. ~Seth