Ahh, yea but I’m making a lot of money off DOCIS so I’m not tanking it by any 
stretch.  I pay as little as $1Mbps including local loop.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 9:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

hahaha

From: Josh Reynolds<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 9:44 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download


In my best Steve impression:

"Fuck DOCSIS"

Ahem. :)
On Jan 15, 2016 9:41 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
So can you fix Rory’s download problem?

(trying to pull the thread back from fanboy tastes-great-less-filling Mac-vs-PC 
territory)

From: Mike Hammett<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 9:33 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

My circle of friends has a pretty good success rate at getting Mikrotik bugs 
fixed.   www.thebrotherswisp.com<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com>

Mikrotik does have some ground to make up on their changelogs, but they are 
definitely improving.




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From: "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 9:05:41 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download
Totally in agreement that serious bugs exist on all platforms and from all 
vendors. But when something is broken and affects a serious percentage of 
Smartnet-paying customers, it gets enough attention that it usually gets fixed. 
The trouble with Mikrotik bugs is that there is no huge population of 
Fortune-500 companies as end-user enterprises, and major ISPs (the top ten 
largest in North America as measured by number of on-net POPs and /24s 
announced). You encounter a bug and post it in some forums and people say "Yeah 
me too", and it maybe gets fixed.
Cisco is also pretty good at providing a detailed changelog of exactly what's 
new/fixed, like:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_4m_and_t/release/notes/15_4T_feats_important_notes.html



On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Mike Hammett 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The #1 thing I learned at NANOG was that the big vendors are just as full of 
shit as the little vendors. Cisco, Juniper, AlcaLu, etc. are all just as likely 
to ignore problems and create bugs as Mikrotik, Ubiquiti, etc.

When sitting at a table at about 1 AM one night with a head engineer with one 
international operator and one national operator I said something to the effect 
of, "I've just largely been listening to you guys comparing notes on different 
products and issues you've had. I use Mikrotik routers in my network and people 
often say they are junk and that Cisco, Juniper, etc. are the way to go. Those 
vendors are exactly who you guys use and yet here you are with the same type of 
complaints as we have with our vendors." The one at the international vendor 
chimed in, "and we pay 10x more for that right."

Don't lose sight of that.

For example, Cisco is known for having Ethernet chipset incompatibility 
issues....  which is exactly what this sub-topic has been about.


To think otherwise is simply blind arrogance.


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From: "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 10:49:12 PM

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download
This is sort of an illustration of why I am still very wary of Mikrotik for 
routers.

There's a myriad of Cisco routers available with 12 to 20 SFP-based GbE 
interfacess (used/refurb) that are just as capable, if somewhat bigger and 
hotter, that run very stable versions of IOS. It's totally unacceptable for 
Cisco to break basic functionality for $HUGE_ISP and $HUGE_ENTERPRISE_CUSTOMER 
, which are usually using the same IOS trains I use for service provider 
functions.
Mikrotik OS software support is pretty much "hey go over to this forum and hope 
somebody answers your question", if something is broken you are just supposed 
to wait for a new version release in a month or two. If something is 
fundamentally broken in a version of IOS used by a mature (6+ year old) Cisco 
platform it's almost certain that somebody much bigger and more important than 
yourself has already run into the issue, escalated it with Cisco, and a new 
build fixing the bug is available.

If the space and power are available I would much rather have a 6503E with dual 
supervisor than a CCR....

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Rory Conaway <[email protected]> wrote:
This just gets even better.  Worked 24 hours, then breaks again.  Up to Level 4 
tech support.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:56 AM

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

We are taking it to the Mikrotik forum.  This makes no sense since we have 12 
of the already running with no issues.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

I’m not terribly happy with ROS since 6.29.

Maybe it’s just still not 100% yet.



From: Rory Conaway
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 8:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

Replaced the Mikrotik routers with an Airrouter, it works.  Replaced with an 
Edgerouter, still works.  This goes under the category of WTF.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 9:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

We tried 3 Mikrotik routers, 2 cable modems, and two radios from two different 
manufacturers.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 8:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

MTU?

Last time I had that problem was an inconsistent Ethernet connection. It wasn’t 
showing errors, but UDP was dropping packets. TCP retransmitted.

UDP was screwy, but TCP was downloading at the limit of the wireless feed.





From: Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 9:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

Nailed the problem down to the Mikrotik router having a problem with DNS 
caching whether it’s Cox or Google.  Not sure where to go from there since the 
other 12 don’t have a problem.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 4:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

We had raons bit no dangling cables.  Level 3 says no errors to the modem and 
we had a tech out already.  We are changing the 2011 to a 450 just to confirm 
before we eacalate further.



Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless

Typed on my phone with one finger so please excuse typos and abbreviations.


-------- Original message --------
From: That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected]>
Date: 1/11/2016 10:38 AM (GMT-07:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

If it just started and youre in an area hit by storms, some of the neighbors, 
mostly the empty houses with no tenants at this point, cable was busted down by 
tree limbs and is dangling terminated byt the mud now

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Glen Waldrop <[email protected]> wrote:
Likely an RF issue on the cable side.

I see this sort of thing with the company I consult for. They’ll have me going 
through the router, trying to shut down the “virus” or peer to peer when it is 
thousands and thousands of retransmits and broken packets.

Just like our wireless it can have good quality until loaded, then watch the 
quality drop to nearly nothing and loose connection.



From: Rory Conaway
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 8:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

The Netgear router has nothing to do with it, I was just using their website as 
an example of downloading a file.  It’s computer, 2011, cable modem, the world. 
 I just can’t download anything from any sites.  What’s weird is they just drop.

Rory

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 5:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

You mention Netgear, is this a Netgear router?  They used to have a problem 
with downloads stalling, but that was quite a few years ago.  The fix was to 
disable SPI Firewall.


From: Rory Conaway
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 6:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] Weird Problem with download

We have a cable circuit that can do everything except download.  There is a 
Mikrotik router between the computer and the cable modem.  Haven’t tested 
taking the router out yet but we have tried 2 routers, same results.  
Basically, downloads either don’t start or start and then just crash.  Game 
machines can’t update, even downloading a 20MB file from netgear fails.  
Everything else seems to work.  Any ideas would be helpful.

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