is Trueonline FTTX public IPv4?

[Satcommlee]

Hello,

 

I am currently on AIS power-pro package which gives a Public IPv4 address, I am thinking of switching to TrueOnline 1 Gbps fiber package can anyone advise if this service gives Public or Private IPv4 to the router?

 

Much appreciated.

[bkkcanuck8]

I have True right now, I would prefer to be on AIS of 3BB.  True is not as transparent about the public IP in that you don't have any official stated IP Public IP address available for there consumer packages (probably have it on enterprise packages).  I have tried to request one (but was not repeatedly insistent) they said they made the change but did not.  I could have tried again but since I have a host in Digital Ocean that I run my traffic to Singapore and then through a VPN from there ($5 month + bandwidth over a certain amount - I think 1TB) [I have better more consistent traffic doing it that way, and prime time throttling is not a factor that way - traffic dependent].  I find there routing for my office VPN though to be ... poor... it routes it bouncing around Europe and finally through the UK to North America (lower bandwidth; latency more of an issue).   In my own opinion, both AIS and 3BB are better (though I think 3BB is another that gives you by default a private IP address].

[MangoPineappleBanana]

2 hours ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

I have True right now, I would prefer to be on AIS of 3BB.  True is not as transparent about the public IP in that you don't have any official stated IP Public IP address available for there consumer packages (probably have it on enterprise packages).  I have tried to request one (but was not repeatedly insistent) they said they made the change but did not.  I could have tried again but since I have a host in Digital Ocean that I run my traffic to Singapore and then through a VPN from there ($5 month + bandwidth over a certain amount - I think 1TB) [I have better more consistent traffic doing it that way, and prime time throttling is not a factor that way - traffic dependent].  I find there routing for my office VPN though to be ... poor... it routes it bouncing around Europe and finally through the UK to North America (lower bandwidth; latency more of an issue).   In my own opinion, both AIS and 3BB are better (though I think 3BB is another that gives you by default a private IP address].

From talking to my colleagues i'm also under the general assumption that 3BB is better, although I dont know about the private ipv4. Can you explain your VPN situation a bit? This is only to reduce packet loss and the unstable connection? I want to route my traffic on one of my AP routers through my USA vpn so that devices connected like the smart TV and phone will pickup USA netflix, prime, hulu, etc. For games or p2p connections there would be an obvious downside with latency, but can you recommend a better way to do this or maybe elaborate on your choice for a singapore VPN? 

[bkkcanuck8]

2 hours ago, MangoPineappleBanana said:

From talking to my colleagues i'm also under the general assumption that 3BB is better, although I dont know about the private ipv4. Can you explain your VPN situation a bit? This is only to reduce packet loss and the unstable connection? I want to route my traffic on one of my AP routers through my USA vpn so that devices connected like the smart TV and phone will pickup USA netflix, prime, hulu, etc. For games or p2p connections there would be an obvious downside with latency, but can you recommend a better way to do this or maybe elaborate on your choice for a singapore VPN? 

The VPN situation is that I lease a $5 / month slot on a host in Singapore.  I installed my own VPN server software (took a bit since I am not the most competent network administrator ???? ).  I then setup a virtual local lan connection so I could have more than one computer on a local network even if one was on the road.  It allows me to dial back to my home computer when not at home (without having a public IP).  The host slot that I lease has it's own IP (non-shared) static IP address.  It also allows me to open up a port for so that the torrent software can be seen by the server, so that I don't violate the rules of the site.  It also allows me to download a show I might want to watch during prime time when network shaping is taking place (the difference can be staggering - 20 to 100Mbs through the VPN or 100 to 200 kbps without).

 

The choice of Singapore to host was simply because the bandwidth (international) is very good to Singapore (almost local like), which means the VPN connection to Singapore would be good.   Singapore has very good international bandwidth connections and being a hosting site (not a vpn provider). I don't need to mask where I am, so I don't need a VPN host in the US. 

 

Internet traffic in SE Asia is always a problem of too much traffic for too little bandwidth so you are going to end up with more jitter than you would like.  The VPN just allows me to reroute my traffic using a local proxy to the rest of the world.  Gaming here (with the wider world) is always going to be problematic because of the limit of the speed of light -- even with the best of routes -- you will still end up with a couple hundred ms of latency at least (to America).