Hi all I want to start by saying I'm not 100% clued up in networking and have been learning as I went along setting up my home network so please be kind if I (very likely) say something stupid.
I finally have a FTTP provider (grain) coming to my end of the woods. Currently I pay Virgin for 350 download and 35 upload. For the same price I can get 900 symmetrical download and upload. Now even if I get only 50% that I'd be happy for the upload alone.
I currently have a unraid server with plex plus x2 virtual machines, 2 reverse VPN's to my home network (via PFsense) and a Xbox series x that I play games from when I'm out the house. In future I do want to set up a stream remote play as well. However, grain do not give a public IPv4 address and 90% sure they don't give a IPv6 one as well. I'm guessing this will cause issues.
I am tempted to stay with virgin for ease of use but really want the speed boost from gain. Right now I have my virgin hub in modem mode and it connect to a PC running PFsense which goes to my ubiquiti switch and wifi access point (had enough of virgins bad wifi). Would it be possible to rent out a 1Gb VPS (as close to me as possible) which has a fixed public IPv4 address have that redirect to my home network? Had a quick google and think you can set up PFsense on the VPS and link it to my one at home which should give me a public IPv4 address.
My questions are is this possible and If so what hit would I take in speed and latency? Obviously, if there is a much better solution I'm all ears.
Cheers for any help
I finally have a FTTP provider (grain) coming to my end of the woods. Currently I pay Virgin for 350 download and 35 upload. For the same price I can get 900 symmetrical download and upload. Now even if I get only 50% that I'd be happy for the upload alone.
I currently have a unraid server with plex plus x2 virtual machines, 2 reverse VPN's to my home network (via PFsense) and a Xbox series x that I play games from when I'm out the house. In future I do want to set up a stream remote play as well. However, grain do not give a public IPv4 address and 90% sure they don't give a IPv6 one as well. I'm guessing this will cause issues.
I am tempted to stay with virgin for ease of use but really want the speed boost from gain. Right now I have my virgin hub in modem mode and it connect to a PC running PFsense which goes to my ubiquiti switch and wifi access point (had enough of virgins bad wifi). Would it be possible to rent out a 1Gb VPS (as close to me as possible) which has a fixed public IPv4 address have that redirect to my home network? Had a quick google and think you can set up PFsense on the VPS and link it to my one at home which should give me a public IPv4 address.
My questions are is this possible and If so what hit would I take in speed and latency? Obviously, if there is a much better solution I'm all ears.
Cheers for any help