We got a 'door hanger' about fiber gigabit here in Littleton/Centennial CO from CenturyLink a couple of weeks ago, which I promptly ignored as just more "pie in the sky" type of stuff (just like Centennial's gigabit "Fiber Initiative" which is STILL two or more years away for our neighborhood)..
But then my neighbor (who works for Xcel energy as a lineman), told me that he saw and asked a truckload of CL techs that were installing "pad mount boxes" less than a block away, when this was gonna be possible. And they told him it was gonna be 'lit up" by this coming week (!).
Well - you know I had to bite on THAT.. So I called the number from the CL door hanger just now, and this person confirmed it will be 'hot' by next Monday, and I verified our address and then asked what their progress was supposed to be and ... damn if it isn't gonna be HERE by Wed./Thurs. (or so she said..). So I just ordered it...
So, now I guess I need to 'gussy up' my "internals", cuz I REALLY want a super-secure 'gateway' with the hope of getting 'best' connecting speeds on my network (we have two small "home businesses" we run: one from my wife's office on the back of the garage, and I do my consulting thing from my separate office/lab in the basement, which is where all the existing 'network infrastructure' is distributing to our LAN). As a 'background', lemme say that I changed out all the CAT-5 for CAT-6 about two years ago, and replaced the old wifi with two new "wireless-ac" APs earlier this past spring, and I currently feed the existing Comcast 50/10 Internet to our LAN through a 24-port Engenius gigabit switch which distributes our Internet and LAN through every room in the house.
But.. what 'disturbs me' is (whenever I have had to contact Comcast for anything) just how much they can "see" inside my LAN, even though I have what I THOUGHT was a pretty secure router at the 'head-end' of our LAN. Well, if this is NOT the case then I feel I gotta address this immediately if this thing is so damned 'transparent', and especially now that the pressure is on IF I can actually get gig-speeds pretty soon.
So... I was considering a Ubiquiti "Unifi Secure Gateway" because ... well, I am a bit of a "fan-boy' of Ubiquiti hardware, and I like the the specs which seem to be pretty good for that cost ($130 +/- and two day delivery from Amazon Prime), but I came here 'cuz I wanted some input on this consideration. I sure ain't made of money, but I'm also not totally afraid to spend a 'reasonable amount' to achieve what I need. So... Any commenters out there with 'reasonable' suggestions?
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