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Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Web

Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!

vecinu 10y ago
$60/month now but I agree with all your points.
baddox 10y ago
My only complaint is that for home service there is no way to get a public IP address, so you've got to get an external server if you want to access your home computers from elsewhere on the Internet.
- lokedhs 10y ago
  Earlier in this thread, it was mentioned they are offering IPv6. I'd expect those addresses to be public at least?
  - baddox 10y ago
    I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to look into it.
    - anxman 10y ago
      Internal IPv6 addresses are publicly addressable on Webpass but you may have to enable it on your router. If you have terminal access to your router and it supports iptables, you can manually enable forwarding for a specific port like this: ip6tables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Note that if you're using this for Api callbacks like AWS Lamda, they do not support IPv6 and then your best bet is a VPN tunneled to your local device. Good luck!
      - fulafel 10y ago
        What's the use case for using port forwarding with IPv6 rather than just allowing the traffic to the machine in question?
        p1mrx 10y ago
        I believe the above ip6tables rules already do what you describe; the only target is "ACCEPT", with no packet mangling.
- boulos 10y ago
  Yeah they ran out of v4 addresses a little while back, but you can always get an IPv6 address from them. To avoid having most people get confused by IPv6 though they seem to have some form of layered IPv4 NAT (one IP per building or something, and then your "own" IP), which in a different building I discovered and found more confusing than "oh look, just straightforward v6 only".
  - p1mrx 10y ago
    > "oh look, just straightforward v6 only" An ISP that doesn't provide at least outbound IPv4 connectivity would rapidly lose all of its customers. IPv6-only with NAT64 is doable when you control the set of attached devices; see T-Mobile US, with phones that implement 464XLAT.
- brbsix 10y ago
  Do you only need access for yourself? If so, you should really check out ZeroTier. I use it on my Android phone and Linux boxes and have been really happy with it.
  - ukd1 10y ago
    This; it's awesome!
bduerst 10y ago
We once spent a year in a building that had Webpass. Ever since then we've moved several times, and every time we ask if they have Webpass in the building. Fantastic service.
sametmax 10y ago
Is that a good deal in the US ? Wow, in France for $40 we got: - 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area) - Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France - HD TV - and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive - for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited calls and 4G. And people are still complaining...
- mar_tin 10y ago
  I think you are confusing Megabits and Gigabits.
- d2p 10y ago
  Today I have 11Mbs internet in England. Before today it was the best I could get but today I was made up that my exchange just went live with 76Mbs fibre. You guys kinda rained on my parade :(
  - yandie 10y ago
    I get 50Mpbs here with Virgin Media - pretty happy about it :D
- yandie 10y ago
  12Gbps? Seriously?
  - josephmx 10y ago
    Has to be wrong, no end user in France is on 100Gbs without ridiculously prohibitive costs
- lsaferite 10y ago
  Do you have some proof of that? I know you can commonly get multi-gig connections in some countries, but France was next on that list that I know of.
- 010a 10y ago
vially 10y ago
That still seems pretty expensive. In Romania you get the same service (1 Gbps with IPv4/6) for less than $12 (45 RON).
- gypsy_boots 10y ago
  Internet is absurdly expensive in the US for what you're getting. For instance I pay $15/month for 2mbps.
- jonknee 10y ago
  What does the price of something in Romania have to do with the price of something in the US?
- rhino369 10y ago
  That's pretty cheap but you have to account for purchase price parity. Local goods are more expensive in America than Romania. By about 2X. That includes cost of local labor. For example, the average Romanian wage is like 8,000 dollars a year. But that 8,000 dollars goes a lot further.

vecinu 10y ago

$60/month now but I agree with all your points.

baddox 10y ago

My only complaint is that for home service there is no way to get a public IP address, so you've got to get an external server if you want to access your home computers from elsewhere on the Internet.

lokedhs 10y ago
Earlier in this thread, it was mentioned they are offering IPv6. I'd expect those addresses to be public at least?
- baddox 10y ago
  I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to look into it.
  - anxman 10y ago
    Internal IPv6 addresses are publicly addressable on Webpass but you may have to enable it on your router. If you have terminal access to your router and it supports iptables, you can manually enable forwarding for a specific port like this: ip6tables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 5005 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -I FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT Note that if you're using this for Api callbacks like AWS Lamda, they do not support IPv6 and then your best bet is a VPN tunneled to your local device. Good luck!
    - fulafel 10y ago
      What's the use case for using port forwarding with IPv6 rather than just allowing the traffic to the machine in question?
      - p1mrx 10y ago
        I believe the above ip6tables rules already do what you describe; the only target is "ACCEPT", with no packet mangling.
boulos 10y ago
Yeah they ran out of v4 addresses a little while back, but you can always get an IPv6 address from them. To avoid having most people get confused by IPv6 though they seem to have some form of layered IPv4 NAT (one IP per building or something, and then your "own" IP), which in a different building I discovered and found more confusing than "oh look, just straightforward v6 only".
- p1mrx 10y ago
  > "oh look, just straightforward v6 only" An ISP that doesn't provide at least outbound IPv4 connectivity would rapidly lose all of its customers. IPv6-only with NAT64 is doable when you control the set of attached devices; see T-Mobile US, with phones that implement 464XLAT.
brbsix 10y ago
Do you only need access for yourself? If so, you should really check out ZeroTier. I use it on my Android phone and Linux boxes and have been really happy with it.
- ukd1 10y ago
  This; it's awesome!

bduerst 10y ago

We once spent a year in a building that had Webpass. Ever since then we've moved several times, and every time we ask if they have Webpass in the building. Fantastic service.

sametmax 10y ago

Is that a good deal in the US ? Wow, in France for $40 we got: - 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area) - Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France - HD TV - and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive - for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited calls and 4G. And people are still complaining...

mar_tin 10y ago
I think you are confusing Megabits and Gigabits.
d2p 10y ago
Today I have 11Mbs internet in England. Before today it was the best I could get but today I was made up that my exchange just went live with 76Mbs fibre. You guys kinda rained on my parade :(
- yandie 10y ago
  I get 50Mpbs here with Virgin Media - pretty happy about it :D
yandie 10y ago
12Gbps? Seriously?
- josephmx 10y ago
  Has to be wrong, no end user in France is on 100Gbs without ridiculously prohibitive costs
lsaferite 10y ago
Do you have some proof of that? I know you can commonly get multi-gig connections in some countries, but France was next on that list that I know of.
010a 10y ago

vially 10y ago

That still seems pretty expensive. In Romania you get the same service (1 Gbps with IPv4/6) for less than $12 (45 RON).

gypsy_boots 10y ago
Internet is absurdly expensive in the US for what you're getting. For instance I pay $15/month for 2mbps.
jonknee 10y ago
What does the price of something in Romania have to do with the price of something in the US?
rhino369 10y ago
That's pretty cheap but you have to account for purchase price parity. Local goods are more expensive in America than Romania. By about 2X. That includes cost of local labor. For example, the average Romanian wage is like 8,000 dollars a year. But that 8,000 dollars goes a lot further.