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On 13/11/2015 8:05 AM, Luke Iggleden wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've heard too many horror stories
about certain open source SIP servers being compromised and
bills into the 10's of thousands for having relaxed security.
Ideally we want to keep these boxes locked down as much as
possible.<br>
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We did look to GeoBlock the rest of the world and only accept
known prefixes from the ISP's that were being used by the CGNAT
boxes, but the audio never makes it back to the DSL tail in the
remote location so a tunnel was the only option.<br>
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I'm thinking PLDT will be the only choice we will accept from
now on. That seems to be a general consensus.<br>
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PLDT has a fibre option as well we could insist on, but it
narrows the scope of workers.<br>
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FWIW I have a PLDT fibre and Globe fibre service (for business, not
home).<br>
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PLDT has consistently been a pain to deal with. Over the last few
weeks packet loss has averaged about 15% to Australia during
business hours (starts around 8AM and goes on to about 6PM). I have
been waiting for months for them to get BGP peering setup. Getting
PTR records set on IP's that are assigned to us from them took two
meetings and a few weeks for them to actually apply it. This graph
was from just over a week ago showing the ramp up:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://i.imgur.com/0xZSTS1.png">http://i.imgur.com/0xZSTS1.png</a> (this test point is in Singapore).<br>
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Globe has been the better of the two, any issues promptly get fixed,
latency is constantly lower to Australia and in general it has been
more reliable. They have also set up everything I have wanted with
minimal fuss, I have not had to email or call the account manager
every single day to get things done.<br>
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I have also used PLDT and Globe DSL services at home and Globe has
also been better, I got rid of PLDT and just stuck with Globe in the
end. You can get a static IP allocation for an extra 800PHP or so a
month. They will not assign a normal public IP (dynamic) to a home
DSL service though, it will be CGNAT unless you purchase the static
IP.<br>
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Maybe its different in Manila but that has been my experience in
Cebu.<br>
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I have heard good things about Converge ICT but I have not tried
them myself.
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