Re: Any info on AT Wireless Outage?

2024-02-29 Thread Ryan Wilkins via NANOG
No $5 received here.. Just a text message saying, "It's AT We apologize for Thursday's outage, which may have impacted you. As a valued customer, your connection matters and we are committed to doing better.” I had the thought the other day that maybe this was a hack and that they didn’t want

Re: Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?

2022-04-22 Thread Ryan Wilkins
A company I work for designs a lot of our own hardware and we’ve had a number of critical components go EOL suddenly and without warning, such as FPGAs, ADCs, clock generators, and SOMs just to name a few. Just a few weeks ago we were informed that a large order of FPGAs was not going to be

Re: home router battery backup

2022-01-12 Thread Ryan Wilkins
installed on some of my indoor equipment.. router, one WiFi AP, Synology file server, x86 linux server. While we almost never lose power at my house, yesterday we lost power for 7 minutes. I maintained Internet connectivity throughout the brief outage. Ryan Wilkins > On Jan 12, 2022, at 12:35

Re: IPv4 Mismanagement

2020-10-02 Thread Ryan Wilkins
I have the same thing with a service that was disconnected a couple years ago. Four IP blocks of /24 size are still swipped to us and we’re announcing them. I don’t put any customers on them and just use them for temporary things for fear that some day someone will want them back. > On Oct

Re: Cogent emails

2020-09-14 Thread Ryan Wilkins
All I did was express interest a few years ago and ever since then they’ve called and emailed me pretty regularly. Just got one yesterday. I’m probably on the fourth sales guy now since I first asked. Ryan Wilkins > On Sep 14, 2020, at 3:00 PM, Jesse DuPont > wrote: > > We sta

Re: Time and Timing Servers

2019-07-11 Thread Ryan Wilkins
the ball is in motion to sunset their CDMA network. Any of the regional carriers that run CDMA networks are likely to follow suit in short order. Ryan Wilkins > On Jul 11, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Isn't a major problem with CDMA-based sources that the networks th

Re: Network Speed Testing and Monitoring Platform

2019-01-16 Thread Ryan Wilkins
A Raspberry Pi uses USB 2 for Ethernet interconnection to the CPU so it most definitely will not keep even half a gig full. It’ll do a bit over 300 Mbps. Ryan Wilkins > On Jan 16, 2019, at 2:45 PM, Casey Russell wrote: > > I don't think a raspberry pi will reliably fill a full Gig

Re: Cellular backup connections

2018-12-28 Thread Ryan Wilkins
You mention your connection is 4G. On T-Mobile 4G is UMTS whereas LTE is, well, LTE. Are you really on UMTS (which I would expect to have much crazier RTTs and jitter like you report) or did you mean LTE? Ryan > On Dec 28, 2018, at 7:06 AM, Dovid Bender wrote: > > Hi All, > > I finally

Re: Zayo vs Coent

2018-11-09 Thread Ryan Wilkins
. I’m aware of the Cogent peering issues but haven’t investigated them fully. Recently, there was an extended service outage on my Zayo 1G link due to dark fiber issues on a private network which left me with Cogent only for about a week and had no support calls because of it. YMMV. Best, Ryan

Re: USA local SIM card

2017-09-20 Thread Ryan Wilkins
tried. I suppose that could be worked around with a VPN. I believe that IPv4 is run through NAT but IPv6 might be a public IP. Again, I haven't tried to access a network this way over cellular. Best, Ryan Wilkins

Re: OT - Verizon/ATT Cell/4G Signal Booster/Repeater

2014-12-15 Thread Ryan Wilkins
and no need for the repeater any more. Best, Ryan Wilkins

Re: Zayo opinions

2014-11-12 Thread Ryan Wilkins
I don’t know the history on Zayo but they acquired Abovenet of which I’m a customer. Quite frankly, I haven’t been impressed. The support went to shit. The last two tickets that I’ve opened with them have had mixed results. The first ticket they called me back 5 days after opening a ticket

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Ryan Wilkins
were enough that it was causing problems. ATT also serves the area but only with 1.5 Mbps DSL. No other wired carriers serve the area aside from dialup. Ryan Wilkins

Re: Best practices IPv4/IPv6 BGP (dual stack)

2014-05-02 Thread Ryan Wilkins
For what it’s worth, my AboveNet and Cogent BGP peerings are v4 for v4 routes and v6 for v6 routes. Two separate sessions to each carrier. While I don’t have any BGP speaking IPv6 customers yet, I would set up this same way to keep the two protocols apart from each other. Best, Ryan Wilkins

Re: turning on comcast v6

2013-12-12 Thread Ryan Wilkins
work for. They are a bit quirky but generally they work fairly well when configured and left alone. Ryan Wilkins

Re: Question related to Cellular Data and restrictions..

2013-12-04 Thread Ryan Wilkins
Since we're on the subject of T-Mobile USA, who was kind enough to send me a notification via SMS that my 10 megabytes of roaming data allotment was all used up yesterday while driving a long stretch of I-77 between somewhere in mid-Ohio all the way to somewhere about Wytheville, VA, I'm

Re: Meraki

2013-11-25 Thread Ryan Wilkins
, and it still routes packets. It seems to otherwise work fine. Has anyone else had strange issues with Vyatta 6.6? Ryan Wilkins

Re: Cogent multi-hop BGP

2013-08-28 Thread Ryan Wilkins
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Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Ryan Wilkins
is that the physics of satellite links can do all sorts of things to applications that one might not expect. Cheers, Ryan Wilkins On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Rob Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though physics says you can never do

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Ryan Wilkins
I've used them before on SCPC links. I discovered on a boat one time that the XipLink unit we were using wasn't exactly designed to handle vibrations from engines nor the constant pounding of a hull on water when in the ocean with large swells. Back then the boxes were 1U rackmount PCs

Re: Vancouver, BC providers

2011-10-25 Thread Ryan Wilkins
Sounds like a possible candidate for some of the last mile wireless equipment available. The problem is the wireless equipment may cost more than the punch to the face and gut. How much bandwidth are you talking? You're looking at somewhere around $16k for a 300 Mbps Motorola PTP 800

Re: Apple updates - Affect on network

2011-10-12 Thread Ryan Wilkins
Have you previously run TinyUmbrella? It has been known to set gs.apple.com to a cydia server in the local hosts file which would return an error. Or it could be gs is overloaded or down. Regards, Ryan Wilkins On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Carlos Alcantar car...@race.com wrote: Has anyone

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-07 Thread Ryan Wilkins
don't know what all my neighbors are capable of doing. Some of them may be capable of helping the cause in ways that I hadn't considered. Regards, Ryan Wilkins

Re: US Warships jamming Lebanon Internet

2011-02-07 Thread Ryan Wilkins
to Microwave Filter Company. http://www.microwavefilter.com/c-band_radar_elimination.htm --Michael +1 for Microwave Filter. They've helped me out in a couples jams before. They're very responsive and the products are good, too. Ryan Wilkins

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-06 Thread Ryan Wilkins
router will do iDirect TDMA or SCPC. Regards, Ryan Wilkins

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Ryan Wilkins
IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been coming soon for about a year and a half. I'm getting ready to try to enable IPv6 natively with Above.net in the Chicago area. Has anyone had any experience with them? Thanks, Ryan Wilkins

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-03 Thread Ryan Wilkins
described. I wouldn't be so worried about transmitting to the satellite, in this case I'd just transmit without authorization, but someone needs to be receiving my transmission and vice versa for this to be useful. At a minimum, I could enable communications between my neighbors. Regards, Ryan

Re: Satellite IP

2011-01-10 Thread Ryan Wilkins
for public use which are tied to the Internet. They should be able to help you with your occasional use needs. If you need a contact, I can try to dig one up for you. Ryan Wilkins

Re: Wireless Ethernet bridge

2010-03-10 Thread Ryan Wilkins
available at the time we were investigating this radio solution. Good luck on your search. Ryan Wilkins On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Scott Brown/Clack/ESD sbr...@clackesd.k12.or.us wrote: The Dragonwave would be my first choice too, but they are not in the 5.8GHz band. The Motorola PTP-600