Every once and a while I have to call my ISP and renegotiate my internet speed.
Before this last call, I was at 300/300 Mbps, which I thought was quite fast and ridiculous.
I call or chat online when I start seeing offers for new customers well exceeding the performance or beneath the price I'm paying.
I've learned to expect they will not give you the same price as new customers, as they are introductory offers and only last 1 year or so. But using that as leverage can spark up some pretty good deals.
So I was paying $90 for 300/300, I saw new customers were offered $45 for 1G/1G.
Popped in a chat with my ISP and now I'm at 2G/2G for $90.
Now with 2G/2G, I'm going back and reevaluating my network and seeing if I need to address any issues.
Thus, this network diagram was born. It's still slightly a WIP, I want to better document the actual ISP provided equipment and connections, but I'm going out to see the new D&D movie with any luck, so this will have to do for now.
One thing I've found interesting is my M1 MBP is not performing as well as my desktop that is running in nearly the same configuration. I might need to check cables there. Happy to see the desktop is reaching nearly gig speeds at least.
Now to ponder about upgrading the internal network to support 2.5G (:sad-face:).
I didn't think I'd be here doing this. I thought 1 Gig Fiber was out of reach even but it seems things are changing quickly.
If you haven't reached out to your ISP lately, I'd highly suggest doing so.
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