#isp stuff

[technicontrastron]

Y'all don't know how essential MS Paint is for keeping the internet running

[edithshead]

With belated good wishes to all--I hope you had a marvelous holiday!

I’m experiencing technical difficulties and until they’re resolved (and once my queue is empty) my posts will likely be a bit sporadic.

[technicontrastron]

Map of the internet's undersea cables Check out the source for an interactive map with details on each cable!

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FIBRE OPTIC FRIDAY

Why are these babies called European Edible Dormouse :( :( :(

He's not for eating. The fibre cables, however,

[technicontrastron]

Two local businesses, A and B, need a very important redundant connection to each other. Business B hired an ISP1 to provide both. ISP1 has no fibre in business A's area so ISP1 hired us (ISP2) for the last mile. For the redundancy connection ISP1 hired ISP3 to provide the other last mile. But ISP3 also has no fibre in the area so ISP3 also hired us (ISP2). Neither ISP1 nor ISP3 told us that both last miles are supposed to be redundant to each other. To us they are completely different customers and we didn't even know about both of them ending up at business B since we're only dealing with fibre in business A's area. We provided the handoff on the same nonredundant device at business A that has a single power source and a single uplink because nobody passed the redundancy requirement info on. Nobody noticed for years until now.

Redundancy is a fucking joke. And just yesterday i got flamed in the youtube comments of an unmarked advertisement video of the big pink T for pointing this out.

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Meta depeered the big pink T because german courts ruled they actually have to pay their contractual fees for access to Telekom's network. I'm actually with Telekom on this one.

Data volume transported in the internet is getting larger and larger and the ISPs pipes have to build more and bigger pipes to transport all that data. As long as Meta pays nothing the costs for this expansion has to be solely covered by the end user's internet bills, or cross subsidized (which means it will be underfinanced). And Meta's business case is partly at fault for this - "but the user requested the data by opening the app" sure but they're also building addictive algorithms to keep them opening the app and shifting the focus to content requiring more network resources like image and video.

But Meta wants to peer for free, because "good access to Meta's network is a competitive advantage". And they correctly assumed that "tech savvy" end users in 2024 germany will foam at the mouth and side with FAANGs over their own interests (not that Telekom is not a big corporation but you know what i mean) and put 100% of the blame on an ISP for "charging twice for the same packet".

[technicontrastron]

We've neglected to prepare for IPv4 exhaustion for decades. RIPE NCC has declared IPv4 exhaustion in 2019. Auctions for /22 prefixes (1024 addresses) starts at 45$ per IP now, it was 10$ when we bought our last one. Amazon is buying them all up for AWS. We're clearly getting more and more desperate for IPv4. But what i didn't expect was RIPE having to address 'IPv4 prefix transfer at gunpoint'.

[weezley]

Okay I need someone who is knowledgable about computer stuff (specifically for gaming - internet stuff tho like ISP issues) to PLEASE HELP ME Guild Wars 2 is rubber banding me so bad. It's been ALL FUCKING DAY. Usually it lasts like an hour or two at most but it's not going away. I have done everything I can think of to fix it - including changing to port 443 on my shortcut. This is murdering me. Someone help.