Speed-up of connection
Having a fiber connection for TV and radio, next phase is Internet. The basic offering is 50Mb – symmetrical, meaning a 6-fold increase of download, but far more interesting for the reader and user: a 50-fold increment of upload speed. It means I had to change DNS settings, as I learned that the address I got from the new ISP is functionally static. That has been tested by connecting my laptop directly to the moden, and afterwards my router – after keeping the connection open for about one hour. I got the right address! The router I use has two WAN ports, so it’s an easy transfer: connecting the fiber into the second WAN port, and supply the ‘old’ address as an alias.
Today I got the acknowledgement of the change – indeed, when accessing the websites I got the new address, but no answer…Luckily, I could access the router and found out I had to disable the first WAN port since that would supply the now obsolete default route; Second, I needed to add a set of open pofrts to the second WAN port. Actually, I made the first set available on the second WAN port and copied it to be used on the first. Now I can access the webs (therefore I cab write this post!), mail gets in and I can access the server.
The difference is speed is noticable, so say the least. Even on a Wifi connection with poor signal 🙂
it will take some time for this DNS-changes to be exported over the web. So if you cannot access the site for some time, you now knwo why.