For a local network supporting a small company or an Internet-active family, it is always possible to rely totally on an Internet Service Provider (ISP) which will provide basic network services straight from the Internet box/router (fibre or ADSL). But, if – like me – you want to have more flexibility, you’d prefer to setup…
My problem: I’ve got a Fiber connexion to the Internet (at Numéricable, one of the main ISP in France) which is forcing a dynamic IP address on me (no fixed IP address, even with a premium; They’ve settled in the XXth century). This would not be very serious except that I host a RAID server…
There are few things that you can do to significantly improve the speed of your Internet connection. Of course, you can switch to another Internet Service Provider, but it’s a mess. On the opposite, it is easy to have an sub-optimal connection because of the response time of the DNS server of your Internet Provider.…