Thursday, January 11, 2018

ISP forcing Port Forwarding

Hi Guys,

Our main site running a 100Mb link, we have 30 remote sites (and more within the next year) all running DSL with Site to Site VPN split tunnel. All the sites are DSL 8 or 16Mb (yes 1Mb upload speed). Our provider is deploying fiber to all locations - with a catch: speeds under 50Mb will not be given public IP. We were planning to install 10 or 20Mb fiber links are remote locations.

With traditional DSL we used to get a block of 8, but now ISP is forcing either to upgrade to >50Mb (which is not needed, and more $$) or they will port forward whatever ports to internal ip for us to have management and vpn access. I assume they want to port forward since they probably running out of IPs.

I believe ISP is taking a step backwards and will make troubleshooting and maintaining our links a headache.

We are based in Caribbean and unfortunately we cannot switch ISP.

What's your take on this?



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