Re: Google Abuse
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 errors from the cellular carriers that the message didn't go through, it just never arrived to the destination. Tested it first hand, T-Mobile to Verizon, T-Mobile to AT and vice versa. Payload was links to a few websites that weren't popular with the left, like that Doctor Robert Malone guy. These were not using URL shorteners that are sometimes considered spam. - Ethan
Re: are underwater routers a thing?
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 them at sea if you could put a router there. The NSA taps aren't really routers per se but networking devices nonetheless. - Ethan
Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?
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 is happening. Brandon All the American social media platforms that banned Americans from having open discussions about things over the past 2 years? Oh no, how could they. Archive.ph worked fine for me. It's .ph, not .php - E
Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch
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 house on a branch where the break being serviced was just that branch (rural customers.) Was just curious why it wouldn't overload the generator trying to power all the neighbors houses if connected to the grid. - Ethan
Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch
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; or the battery inverter will isolate away How would this not load the generator or inverter into oblivion? (Just curious, I know people who use a suicide cord usually turn off the main breaker.) - Ethan
Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
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 company is built this way, from encrypted 10g enterprise and now residential connections, to access to c-levels for every customer. Scaling that will be a challenge, but it’s something I look forward to bringing to 8 billion people. Hmp. Just read up about the electrical work you did at the Ghost Ship in San Fran. Would love to see some pics of your electrical panel work and installs, see if it's insulting or not. - E
Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
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 have enjoyed a monopoly may have competition. This is on top of 5G in dense markets. Competition can drive the market faster. - Ethan
Re: OT: Re: Facebook and other walled gardens
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 notifications. Protips #1. BitlBee lets you access facebook messenger via IRC. You have to run the server and connect to it via localhost. #2. mbasic.facebook.com is your friend on mobile if you don't run their messenger app but need to reach someone in a pinch. Facebook was less annoying when they sent notificataion emails that contained the actual information versus no information and a link to try to lure you back. - Ethan
Re: Arista Switches rebooting
Did you contact the vendor and did they commit to a fix? I can't imagine a vendor not wanting to fix an easily reproducible bug such as this. It was a while ago, and the vendor was aware of the issue. Arista had the info on which specific ports would accept the cable. An interesting moment 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
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 this is something anyone else is experiencing with this platfrom Thanks, We found a bug on the 64 port x 100gig model that if you insert a quad twinax 10gig fanout cable in many of the ports it will trigger a reboot. Some select ports are okay and supported, but the ones that are not would trigger a reset. Issue was immediate to the cable being inserted. No idea if this was patched or not. - Ethan
Re: [EXT] Re: rack rails
I've been asking manufacturers for proper server-like slide-rails for their switches for years. Now they've started making the switches as deep or even deeper than servers, but they still use the same old rack ear mounting method. The Arista 4 post rack kits are pretty good. Toolless as well. - Ethan O'Toole
Re: Energy Efficiency - Data Centers
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?
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 industry. As I understand it much of the music in TV shows require licensing and sometimes different license holders exist for a song depending on country. While the television industry self-inflicts pain to it's userbase it's easier for the users to just pirate the content. - Ethan
Re: Disney+ Geolocation issues
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
What about diversity from Ashburn? I believe Loudon County (the county that Ashburn VA is in) has reeled in future datacenter construction, and future datacenters will happen in nearby Manassas and othere cities. I've heard that some of the major data center companies already have property in other areas West of Ashburn that are 2 hours or less travelling by land. Less natural disaster risk. Virginia Beach has hurricanes and is already pretty built out. Not sure how cheap the power is, but most companies there are more interested in feeding off the large Military presence. 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
hey there, we've put together a blog post about Virginia beach developments and how it can reshape some of the ways we have been designing our networks. https://www.infrapedia.com/post/virginia-beach-a-new-hub-is-born Mehmet Ex-757'er (757 = Virginia Beach.) Dead area tech wise. Bad job prospects led the geeks to flee the area. Small lights out data centers to support a few undersea cables aren't going to change that. Those cables landing in VaBeach will have their traffic hauled to Northern Virginia -- where all the action is. It will do little to benefit the locals once the build out is done. - Ethan O'Toole
Re: SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations
I’m wondering if the barcodes on the SFPs would let you simplify things a bit more vs. updating a spreadsheet. IE: Some sort of barcode scanner app for your phone that could automagically add/remove from some sort of document or database? Barcode is likely to just be the serial #, not model #? - Ethan O'Toole
Re: California public safety power shutdowns
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 gasoline generator with natural gas and propane, there is just less energy so it takes more of those fuels to get the same energy output. There are also fuel cells that take LPG. Was this a really tiny microcell? I wouldn't think they could run for months on bottled LPG if there is any kind of real load at the site. - Ethan
Re: Time and Timing Servers
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
I'm looking for a device that can receive GPS inside a building without the assistance of an external antenna (Frontier says they no longer allow external antenna), will provide traditional NTP services, and will provide a timing signal that my Metaswitch can work with. GPS inside a building 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
If it’s in an interduct by itself, how much would the square footage per month occupied by the average cross connect be worth? These big datacenter companies are REITs. Similar to self-storage units and apartment buildings, they exist to extract as much money as possible from the users. 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?
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
