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Dragon-sided D | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ffabe43d Dynamic IPs are a mixed bag and the inheritence of IPv4, not a conspiracy. If I were an ISP, I'd want upload/download limits of *some* kind, so I could plan infrastructure outlays.

Do you have a vigorous local market in last-mile internet providers? I'd look at that market for root causes of poor options.
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Determination G. Schadenfreude | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ae1c89a6 Nope! We have two providers to choose from: the bad one, and the worse one! (For wired internet, anyway.)

As for the rest: sure, cap UL/DL bandwidth, but keep it symmetric. Monthly data caps are a bit harder to justify IMO. Dynamic IPs may be a legacy of IPv4, but I’m still a bit sore about the botched IPv6 adoption. Most of all, ISP TOS banning people from running their own servers is some serious bullshit.

Anyways, I do plan on checking out Peertube!
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Dragon-sided D | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ffabe43d If you really want to host from home, consider using a .onion #tor address. The IP can change, all the network cares about is that your server has the private key for the address. And I guarantee you won’t hit those pesky bandwidth limits, ha ha
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cbd67417 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ae1c89a6 @ffabe43d Lol. Reminds me of using OnionShare myself to share over 10GBs of video data to a friend, because I was unable to circumvent the NAT of my router. 😁

Probably have picked something else if I had knewn what "NAT hole punching" means.
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Dragon-sided D | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @7900ce57 @ffabe43d IPv6 is great for evading firewalls… that’s why I block it at home, and allow it on my VPS servers