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List of Gateways for top ISP?

What exactly do you mean for gateways?

Cox here in Tucson only probably has 200+ gateways, At least what I refer as the default Gateway(CMTS)IP's...

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Just check out all the IP's, start at 1.0.0.0 and the last one will be at 255.255.255.254.

You're obviously either a troll or a hacker, I'm guessing troll, so there's a little food for you.
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Okay, so what you guys are saying is that there is no one Gateway that all traffic goes through per ISP and that depending on your location you'll get a random one?

Sorry, I'm not too technologically savvy about this, so I do appreciate your help.

What is the context of your question? Are you talking about a gateway as in:

IP: 10.10.10.25
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 10.10.10.1

Or a Gateway as in your ISP's edge router?

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The gateways in both of my lines tend to vary. For example, on one line, the gateway is dependent on what edge router I'm on as well as what CO I'm coming out of, but on another line, I could be on a variety of gateways that are in my area based on my IP or however the ISP wants to route me. It all depends on how the ISP has things set up. Also, on one ISP, the gateway is only accessible on the network side as the IP address is non-routable (like a LAN address on the internet, that would in no way be routable such as a 192.168.*.* address!), but on the other ISP I use, my Gateway is in fact a routable Internet IP address that I can hit from the outside rather than only inside of my network.

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Just to beat this topic to death. Not only will an ISP have multiple gateways depending on how network is segmented Gateway will most likely be a private IP pulled from RFC 1918 pool. Those addresses are not accessible from the Internet and like residential broadband can be used and reused multiple times.

They have no meaning outside the scope of the ISP network.

/tom

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Okay, maybe I should state why exactly I am asking this and maybe you guys can think of how I can better phrase my question.

We have a website that has a file people download from all across the USA. We want people to be able to have the file be downloaded faster, and so our operations team told us that they want to know the gateways of the top ISPs in the US so they can start doing tests regarding connectivity. Would giving them a random gateway from all the major ISPs do the trick?

sounds like you are interested in peering points, not gateways

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It appears your operations team has no idea how the Internet works.

If you want to optimize file download you need to geographically disperse your servers and locate them on well peered networks. For example, Google maintains multiple sites around the country.

Unless you are generating that kind of traffic it is probably overkill. Just make sure your server farm is well connected.

/tom
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Okay, a different question. Can you guys recommend a service that has a cluster of servers around the country that would (for a fee) speed test connection to your site/download server and generate the results for you?

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Try this and see if it will do.

»/tools

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Sadly I don't think Tools has what I need, as it needs to test a website (not my machine) from geographically distributed points preferably running off residential ISPs.

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Something less expensive/illegal to setup?

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Have the file hosted by a cloud network like Amazon S3 cloud has. Or any other cloud hosting service.

Dead thread I know, but sounds like the OP needs a CDN. Amazon, Softlayer (via InterNAP), SingleHop (via Panther Express), Rackspace (via LimeLight) and SimpleCDN are all options.