I’ve had AT&T Fiber in two different cities 360 miles apart and neither location had CGNAT. The AT&T Gateway isn’t the greatest, but it can hand off the WAN IP to your own router, but you’re still confined to the AT&T Gateway’s tiny NAT table. The extra upload speed is no joke. I also Work from home and I can upload files to the company Google Drive faster than I can when I visit an office. You can ask AT&T for static IPs still I believe, but at my last place the Dynamic IP didn’t change in 4 years.

The service has been quite reliable. I have had one 2 hour outage after a windstorm in six months. I live in an older neighborhood where telecom and electric are all above ground in the alley.

Man, I miss my days of being a sysadmin and in charge of decom at a company that treated homelab as a perk. Once the NBV was $0 if it didn’t go home with me it was going in the recycling truck. The only things we tended to sell were the big decom projects with blade centers… which I don’t want. We once had a decommissioned silicon emulator sitting out front of the building overnight because my purchasing rep forgot my building in another state didn’t have a loading dock. Freight company had to come back with a lift gate.

I’m rolling Ubuntu with docker. Still run some VMs for experiments via QEMU. My 1U server in my rack is running Server 2019 that has stuff I like to keep running as much as possible. The 2U on Ubuntu has been a bit of a pain in the ass to reboot. It often won’t auto-import my ZFS pools on boot. Does it manually every time though.