Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-16 Thread Keith Stokes
Cox also has a 1.2 TB cap. If I can believe my graphs, the metered Cox connection (video streaming primarily for wife) is about 90 GB the month of April and the unmetered ATT fiber WFH for me is about 370 GB. Total LAN is about 450 GB. Napkin math but it's pretty close.

Re: Spectrum (legacy TWC) Infrastructure - Contact Off List (Patrick Garner)

2023-02-03 Thread Keith Stokes
I think the bright orange is so you don't run over it with your lawn mower, especially since it's going to be there for 3 years. You'd think in the 3 years in the US South it would be grown over and buried itself.  From: NANOG on behalf of Patrick Garner

Re: Rogers Outage Canada

2022-07-11 Thread Keith Stokes
and dependent services as operating normally. If you are experiencing any ongoing issues please reach out to the Data Centres help desk An official Incident Report will be shared in 5 to 7 Business days. We thank you for your patience during the restoration. -- Keith Stokes SalonBiz, Inc On Jul 11

Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-15 Thread Keith Stokes
There are plenty of arguments that the existing school hours aren’t best for educating children so the better answer might be to make school hours match later daylight hours. > On Mar 15, 2022, at 5:23 PM, Matthew Huff wrote: > > They don't want their names on it when what happened in the

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Keith Stokes
Pfsense on Netgate appliances? I’ve used several of them, while not for this exact purpose they have done the roles but maybe not the amount of VPN traffic. -- Keith Stokes SalonBiz, Inc On Feb 10, 2022, at 12:02 PM, William Herrin mailto:b...@herrin.us>> wrote: Hi folks, Do yo

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-27 Thread Keith Stokes
In Andreessen Horowitz's words: “you’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it" On 1/27/22 15:54, Michael Thomas wrote: On 1/26/22 11:11 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 1/26/22 17:10, Tom Beecher wrote: Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-25 Thread Keith Stokes
Cox has been doing this for awhile. On 1/25/22 13:44, Matthew Petach wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:11 AM Michael Thomas wrote: [...] Since everybody has their own wifi it seems that federating all of them for pretty good coverage by a provider and charging a nominal

Re: What do you think about this airline vs 5G brouhaha?

2022-01-19 Thread Keith Stokes
. However there wasn’t as much of an “agreed-upon signoff” as there was “move, go off the air or accept interference”. The FCC and telco deal was done no matter what. -- Keith Stokes On Jan 19, 2022, at 10:22 AM, Tom Beecher mailto:beec...@beecher.cc>> wrote: It's also relevant that the sp

Re: home router battery backup

2022-01-12 Thread Keith Stokes
k up my generator when PG decides to cut the power again. A bigger UPS for the small 19" rack that hosts some stuff. Top Gear Top Tip: I also have a UPS on my garage door opener. That saves the misses from dealing with manually opening/closing the garage door if I'm not at home. Thanks, Sabri -- Keith Stokes SalonBiz, Inc

Re: Never push the Big Red Button

2021-09-15 Thread Keith Stokes
The bigger thing to notice is the *lack* of noise as every server, switch and storage system spins down. --- Keith Stokes On Sep 15, 2021, at 3:50 PM, Stephen Satchell mailto:l...@satchell.net>> wrote: In the data centers I've worked in over the decades, those Big Red Buttons

Re: Support for End User Services

2021-02-22 Thread Keith Stokes
I’ve always used wording such as “I’m contacting you on behalf of so-and-so.” If they ask further I usually tell them I’m a consultant. On Feb 20, 2021, at 11:29 AM, Mike Hammett mailto:na...@ics-il.net>> wrote: Leave aside any conversation about whether the business has the ability (or

Re: Infomart Dallas is on generator

2021-02-16 Thread Keith Stokes
Equinix DA-2 reported loads transferred 3-4 a.m. From: NANOG on behalf of Robert DeVita Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 4:51 PM To: Eric Kuhnke ; nanog@nanog.org list Subject: Re: Infomart Dallas is on generator Hopefully the other 400mw in Dallas follow

Re: Pinging a Device Every Second

2018-12-15 Thread Keith Stokes
tus and the outbound e-mails. -- Keith Stokes SalonBiz, Inc On Dec 15, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Colton Conor mailto:colton.co...@gmail.com>> wrote: CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL The problem I am trying to solve is to accurately be able to tell a customer if their home internet connection was u

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-22 Thread Keith Stokes
Typical electrical breakers are not instantaneous devices and likely will not trip at .5% over rated load until they've been run near limit for extended periods of time. - Keith Stokes > On Jul 22, 2018, at 5:52 AM, Radu-Adrian Feurdean > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 17,

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-18 Thread Keith Stokes
To her, the power company sucks if the lights go out. In the worst case, if her power starts a fire, she's calling the fire department. Mark. --- Keith Stokes Neill Technologies

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

2018-07-14 Thread Keith Stokes
sense. As part of that I have a service that monitors people applying for microwave transmitters within a few hundred miles. You’d be surprised how many links are applied for every month. -- Keith Stokes Neill Technologies > On Jul 14, 2018, at 9:56 AM, Miles Fidelman > wrote: &

Re: NG Firewalls & IPv6

2018-04-05 Thread Keith Stokes
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Re: Zayo zColo Xcon Pricing

2018-03-07 Thread Keith Stokes
on’s as well as a hefty NRC as well. Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Anyone care to share what an average copper xcon, single floor, meet-me-room to cage, Ethernet from carrier circuit costs? (This xcon is approx 30 feet..) Thanks! James Sent from my iPad --- Keith

Re: Temp at Level 3 data centers

2017-10-12 Thread Keith Stokes
If you are using hot/cold aisles and don't fill the rack, don't forget you have to put in blank panels. -- Keith Stokes > On Oct 12, 2017, at 5:45 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 8:31 AM, David Hubbard < > dhubb...@dino.h

Re: Temp at Level 3 data centers

2017-10-11 Thread Keith Stokes
a country-wide thing for them or unique to the data center I have equipment in. I have equipment in several others from different companies and most are probably 15-20 degrees cooler. Thanks, David --- Keith Stokes

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-09-27 Thread Keith Stokes
PR and USVI will be a good test how well the EAS works during extreme telecommunications damage. >From my brief time as a radio station tech, all you need for EAS to function >properly is power to the receiver/decoder and for the station's transmitter to >be alive --- Keith Stokes

Re: Please run windows update now

2017-05-15 Thread Keith Stokes
2017/05/12/ 528119808/large-cyber-attack-hits-englands-nhs-hospital- system-ransoms-demanded --- Keith Stokes

Re: Verizon wireless to stop issuing static IPv4

2017-03-08 Thread Keith Stokes
that device that will remain with that device until the address is relinquished by the user (i.e., when the user moves the device off the Verizon Wireless network). • IPv4-only devices are not compatible with Persistent Prefix IPv6 addresses. --- Keith Stokes

Re: Advice re network compromise and "law enforcement" (PCI certification)

2017-01-11 Thread Keith Stokes
nvolving law enforcement, and then what agency/agencies would be contacted? This question is best answered by an attorney with expertise in this area and with specific knowledge of your operation. ---rsk --- Keith Stokes

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-27 Thread Keith Stokes
Assuming all devices are vulnerable isn't a bad start. -- Keith Stokes > On Sep 27, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> wrote: > >> On 27 Sep 2016, at 22:37, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> >> All the more reason to educate people TODAY on

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Keith Stokes
d for it,??? Holmes said. "But it's elementary!" Watson retorted :) alan -- Ken Chase - Toronto Canada --- Keith Stokes

Re: Comparing carrier hotels and colo: How much are you paying per 208V 30A circuit

2016-08-17 Thread Keith Stokes
tected (1+0 generator, 1+1 generator, N+1 generator, single UPS, 1+1 UPS, etc). c) What extent of diversity were you able to obtain vs. your other AC circuits (unique riser? separate transformer? separate power feed from second route into the building?) --- Keith Stokes

Re: DNS Services for a registrar

2016-08-12 Thread Keith Stokes
but at least show a different/better one in return. On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Keith Stokes wrote: Route53 can get expensive for lots of domains. Queries are cheap with the first 1M free, but if you have 1000 domains you’ll pay $500/month. You can build dedicated servers in multiple AZs and data

Re: DNS Services for a registrar

2016-08-12 Thread Keith Stokes
.ca<mailto:alte...@alter3d.ca>> wrote: On 2016-08-12 11:36 AM, Keith Stokes wrote: Route53 can get expensive for lots of domains. Queries are cheap with the first 1M free, but if you have 1000 domains you’ll pay $500/month. If you had 1000 domains, you'd pay $110/month, not $500. The firs

Re: DNS Services for a registrar

2016-08-12 Thread Keith Stokes
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Re: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

2016-05-06 Thread Keith Stokes
don't end up going through them. On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Keith Stokes <kei...@neilltech.com<mailto:kei...@neilltech.com>> wrote: I've been told by various PCI auditors that a noncommercial/FOSS firewall could pass as long as you have implemented the necessary controls suc

Re: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

2016-05-06 Thread Keith Stokes
I've been told by various PCI auditors that a noncommercial/FOSS firewall could pass as long as you have implemented the necessary controls such as encryption/logging/management and passing actual testing. -- Keith Stokes > On May 6, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org&

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

2016-03-14 Thread Keith Stokes
a paperclip history form to go with it. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx<mailto:mi...@mikea.ath.cx> Tired old sysadmin --- Keith Stokes

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-23 Thread Keith Stokes
. A loud datacenter is much worse than a loud rock band, IMO. I personally use Bose noise-canceling headphones. --- Keith Stokes

Re: cisco.com unavailable

2015-09-21 Thread Keith Stokes
It works fine for me from Cox. --- Keith Stokes From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Murat Kaipov <mkai...@outlook.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:51 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: cisco.com unavailable Hi folks!

Re: high latency on West Coast?

2015-09-18 Thread Keith Stokes
I have a SmokePing machine sitting in AWS Oregon looking at a few of my sites. It shows a bunch of ugliness starting around midnight Central and smoothing out but still with higher latency continuing to some sites. The same site is showing ugliness in the last hour. -- Keith Stokes > On

Re: IP's with jitter/packet loss and very far away

2015-09-18 Thread Keith Stokes
one have IP's that I can trace from the US or UK that will show 1) jitter 2) packet loss 3) very far away (perhaps an IP on a sat. link). Pref over 2000 ms TIA. Dovid --- Keith Stokes --- Keith Stokes

Re: IP's with jitter/packet loss and very far away

2015-09-18 Thread Keith Stokes
uld not look like? Anyone have IP's that I can trace from the US or UK that will show 1) jitter 2) packet loss 3) very far away (perhaps an IP on a sat. link). Pref over 2000 ms TIA. Dovid --- Keith Stokes

Re: Ashburn

2015-09-16 Thread Keith Stokes
Or router bugs. Or even inserting new NSA taps since some of the rest have been caught. --- Keith Stokes From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2

Re: outlook.com outgoing blacklists?

2015-09-10 Thread Keith Stokes
Well now you have to share the answer. On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Todd K Grand <tgr...@tgrand.com<mailto:tgr...@tgrand.com>> wrote: The problem has been resolved. Thanks to everybody that contributed. --- Keith Stokes

Re: ATT U-Verse Data Setup Convention

2015-07-30 Thread Keith Stokes
times I have noticed that it's changed. I wouldn't trust it to be static forever. -- James Hartig --- Keith Stokes

ATT U-Verse Data Setup Convention

2015-07-30 Thread Keith Stokes
or is there a hard coded entry somewhere? 3. Do all U-Verse modem/routers behave the same way? This particular unit was a Motorola but the friends I’ve seen with U-Verse use a Cisco unit. --- Keith Stokes

Re: ATT U-Verse Data Setup Convention

2015-07-30 Thread Keith Stokes
to have to know how the technology of every ISP that every possible SaaS customer may use to access your service is set up? On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 04:02:06PM +, Keith Stokes wrote: I’m wondering if some can share their experiences or maybe there’s an ATT person here who can confirm policy. I

Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

2015-07-08 Thread Keith Stokes
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Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-28 Thread Keith Stokes
Use wireless. There are reasonably priced point to point bridges available. -- Keith Stokes On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Peter Kristolaitis alte...@alter3d.ca wrote: On 6/26/2015 7:26 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote: Bell Canada is apparently gearing