Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-06-02 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, Glass and Copper (and aluminum) infrastructure is a natural monopoly, similar to water service. It was purely by chance IMHO that we ended up with Cable Co and Tel Co internet competing with each other in many locations in the US. That was aided by the following: * Technology for TV o

Re: Cable Company Hotspots

2020-11-20 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, Cable Cos do this in several ways. Enabled hot spot on the cable provider cpe with separate ssid, sometimes the same channel sometimes dedicated radio and channel (I prefer the same channel as many areas have way too much noise). This hotspot service is using it's own docsis channels and

Re: 60ms cross continent

2020-07-06 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, Startlink 1.0, probably will not have lower latency vs Fiber (either cross country or across oceans) Once the laser based inter-sat links are running (Starlink 2.0?), it should be lower latency vs Fiber. With ground stations only: https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY With laser links: https://

Re: Companies using public IP space owned by others for internal routing

2017-12-17 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, I know of some enterprise IT equipment that does this. It was reserved space at the time it was picked. It does not leak from the box, but every once in a while one of these IPs show up in a customer visible log, and causes confusion. In ways it is better then rfc 1918 space as it has les

Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes

2017-03-12 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, This is why I moved away from static black lists years ago. When the 68/8 and 24/8 blocks were released and tons of networks had it blocked since it was "reserved" I observed and felt the pain. My networks are small, and I rely on things such as fail2ban which auto remove the blocks.

Re: net neutrality peering dispute between CenturyTel/Qwest and Cogent in Dallas

2015-08-15 Thread Harry McGregor
On 08/15/2015 09:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: The most viable solution, IMHO, is to require a separation between physical infrastructure providers and those that provide services over that infrastructure. Breaking the tight coupling between the two and requiring physical infrastructure provider