Re: Google Abuse

2022-08-17 Thread Ethan O'Toole
They may tell you they are not but there is no doubt in my mind they are and if they got caught their response would be “Oopsie, my bad”. -richey During Covid hysteria cellular carriers were definitly scrubbing text messages that contained things against whatever the agenda was. There was no

Re: are underwater routers a thing?

2022-03-18 Thread Ethan O'Toole
I was reading an article in the Economist about a new fiber route down the Red Sea from Israel and wondered if there were any branches off of those lines and where the routers were for them. The route kind of made it look like it was completely at sea, but it would kind of make sense to leave

Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?

2022-03-04 Thread Ethan O'Toole
It seems the much more concerning news coming out now is that Russia is banning all foreign and independent media from BBC to Facebook and all in between with heavy threats of prison and fines.  So they are cutting themselves off presumably to keep the Russian people in the dark about what

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-25 Thread Ethan O'Toole
How would this not load the generator or inverter into oblivion? Not sure I understand your question. Say again, please. If you hook 100KW of neighbors up to your 5KW/20% THD garden generator it would probably trip the breaker, or stall. I suppose it could be an issue if it was a single

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-25 Thread Ethan O'Toole
Back feeding electric power into the utility lines is dangerous for the repair crews working on utility lines. Same advice applies to solar or stationery storage inverters. Typically, these are automated enough to disconnect from the grid after an outage, if you don't have a local battery;

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-29 Thread Ethan O'Toole
We decided, oh, 28 years ago, not to offer an insulting service tier at all; all our services, even the most “entry level” are designed to make you feel not just special, but like you’re one of perhaps 6 billionaire customers we have and depend entirely upon. The entire framework of my

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-27 Thread Ethan O'Toole
I pay $150/month for 300/8 at home and that's the best upload I can get where I live ... in a major city.  Outside of DC area, < $50/mo at 200/200. Because there is competition in the local market between Verizon and Cox. Once OneWeb and Starlink become a thing, a lot of providers that

Re: OT: Re: Facebook and other walled gardens

2021-03-22 Thread Ethan O'Toole
No. Use a communication method that is available globally, not proprietary and doesn’t require me to sell my soul to the devil simply to participate. In your case you would have to go to an E-Mail list... which for some takes more time to curate / read versus something that is driven by push

Re: Arista Switches rebooting

2020-05-04 Thread Ethan O'Toole
when all the activity LEDs stop flashing green, go Orange for a second across the board, then continue to stay dark for a while as the switch boots back up. - Ethan O'Toole

Re: Arista Switches rebooting

2020-05-04 Thread Ethan O'Toole
Hi, Has anyone had issues with Arista switches rebooting out of the blue, when there isn't even a sufficient load on them to be a CPU or memory issue? We have a couple Arista 7280s both SR and CR that have had this behaviour, this is the second time we see this issue and just wanted to see if

Re: [EXT] Re: rack rails

2020-03-30 Thread Ethan O'Toole
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Re: Energy Efficiency - Data Centers

2019-12-18 Thread Ethan O'Toole
Passive House Technology. This led me to wonder what is the inefficiency of these servers in data centers. Every time I am in a data center I am Probably all the bad software. - Ethan

Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?

2019-11-20 Thread Ethan O'Toole
This is why you don't go after Hulu. You go after the content owners who conspired to compel Hulu to limit distribution in a way that tortiously interferes with your contract with your eyeball customers. Then, before Which in many cases is groups like the Screen Actors Guild and the music

Re: Disney+ Geolocation issues

2019-11-14 Thread Ethan O'Toole
For Disney, isn't it the same "house" ? They're trying to control different pricing for different markets. Similar to how Spotify costs a lot less in Indonesia and the Philippines. This is where a VPN comes in handy. - Ethan

Re: virginia beach

2019-11-08 Thread Ethan O'Toole
. There recently was a colo that was co-funded by the government down there that collapsed financially. It was targeted towards Bitcoin, of course. - Ethan O'Toole

Re: virginia beach

2019-11-04 Thread Ethan O'Toole
out is done. - Ethan O'Toole

Re: SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations

2019-10-30 Thread Ethan O'Toole
#? - Ethan O'Toole

Re: California public safety power shutdowns

2019-10-11 Thread Ethan O'Toole
request went all the way to the Court. The reason for access? They ran the electronics on bottled propane (NOT mains power AC) and they needed to swap full tanks for the empties. This was several months into my stint on that site. Not all generators run on diesel, I learned. You can drive a

Re: Time and Timing Servers

2019-07-11 Thread Ethan O'Toole
Isn't a major problem with CDMA-based sources that the networks they depend on are getting shut down? If so, I would imagine there will be timing servers based on the replacement cellular technology. Might ask EndRun or one of their competitors about it. - Ethan

Re: Time and Timing Servers

2019-07-11 Thread Ethan O'Toole
probably isn't going to work unless you have the antenna up against a window. Look at CDMA NTP Servers like the EndRun Sonoma. They use the cellular network which requires accurate timing and has good building penetration. - Ethan O'Toole

Re: Massive Price Increase for X-conns at Telehouse Chelsea, NYC

2018-09-17 Thread Ethan O'Toole
. Nothing more or nothing less. The price relief only comes when the market is grossly overbuilt and if there is actual competition. - Ethan O'Toole

Re: Are any of you starting to get AI robocalls?

2018-04-03 Thread Ethan O'Toole
do it, and the spoofing is nearly impossible to trace back to the origin, so those who do it can safely ignore other laws because they know they won't be caught. Forward to an 800, grab it from the ANI versus CID? - Ethan O'Toole