For those that weren't present today, the meeting space (The Hub) had mostly unuseable natwork today. I measured 50-70% packet loss (curiously, my managed IPv6 tunnel had 20% less loss)... and I mostly could not sustain a TCP connection long enough to even get email.
I don't know what kind of network connection or what kind of wifi access point, or what kind of router they have there. The reason I ask, is because 70% chance that it was really a "consumer" grade, and I might even bet that it was running some WRT variation. It didn't get fixed during the day, nor do I know if the problem was even local. The reason I say all of this, is that we were sitting there, a room full of the smartest network geeks around, and we were 100% powerless to do anything. We couldn't even find out what was wrong, let alone fix attempt to fix anything. This situation is kinda useful as a common data point for failures: how would our proposed solution have faired? If the problem wasn't local, would our proposed multi-ISP solution have helped? Would happy-eyeballs have kept us happy? So I'm curious what the problem was, why it took more than 1-2 hours to resolve. The second question I have is deeper: we had at least 10 smartphones with 3G+wifi connectivity. I wasn't going to volunteer mine due to excessive cost of international roaming data rates, but many were locals. We had a common "LAN" (the THEHUBPUBLIC wifi)... if we had had running code available... could we, the doctor, have healthed ourselves? So, perhaps it is more clear to some, why I keep going on about the fact that due to smartphones, pretty much EVERY HOME is a multi-ISP home. (Imagine that eh, running ospfv3 in your pocket?) -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] [email protected] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> then sign the petition.
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