Re: WSJ: Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top U.S. Official Says

2024-12-05 Thread Ryan Wilkins via NANOG
There’s been a question about T-Mobile being part of this or not.  I have no specific knowledge, but just count the number of times they’ve been hacked in the past (that we know of) and draw your conclusion that they’re part of this.Ryan WilkinsOn Dec 5, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Joe Klein wrote:I suspec

Re: Any info on AT&T Wireless Outage?

2024-02-29 Thread Ryan Wilkins via NANOG
No $5 received here.. Just a text message saying, "It's AT&T. 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 wa

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 fil

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 2,

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
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 the

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 ful

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 got

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
nections to the phones or not. I've never 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 f

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-21 Thread Ryan Wilkins
that it was causing problems. AT&T 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
eep the two protocols apart from each other. Best, Ryan Wilkins

Re: turning on comcast v6

2013-12-12 Thread Ryan Wilkins
ole at an ISP I 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 pretty

Re: Meraki

2013-11-25 Thread Ryan Wilkins
o 6.6R3 at the advice of Vyatta TAC. So far it shows a similar result. Other services stay running, such as OSPF and OSPFv3, 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
gent IP transit service? > (on/off list is fine.) > > -- > Tim:> For what it's worth, we started with Cogent doing the A/B peer thing when we were running IPv4 only with them. Once we added IPv6 BGP they migrated us to a direct peering. Much simpler and preferred. This is

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 running

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Ryan Wilkins
t the point 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 wrote: > > They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though > physics says you can

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Ryan Wilkins
If you need more than a megabit, don't forget to factor in the link budget and the resulting power and hardware requirements to support larger bandwidths. Then you're looking at something that is probably not available today on the island. If the connection needs to be up 24/7, even in heavy r

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 solution

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 wrote: > Has anyone else bric

Re: [OT] Internet connectivity options in Afghanistan?

2011-02-22 Thread Ryan Wilkins
has a number of them, as does Japan and China. You may even find a service point out of Dubai. Cheers, Ryan Wilkins

Re: US Warships jamming Lebanon Internet

2011-02-07 Thread Ryan Wilkins
gt; Someone needs to talk 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

2011-02-07 Thread Ryan Wilkins
unicating the better. I 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: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-06 Thread Ryan Wilkins
of them. The iDirect 7350 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
his to be useful. At a minimum, I could enable communications between my neighbors. Regards, Ryan Wilkins

Re: Satellite IP

2011-01-10 Thread Ryan Wilkins
ndering if there are others (and if their IP jocks hang out here). Intelsat operates several iDirect hubs available 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
which weren't 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 > wrote: The Dragonwave would be my first choice too, but they are not in the 5.8GHz band. The Motorola PTP-600 h

Re: FOSS WAN Acceleration Software

2009-09-20 Thread Ryan Wilkins
s the need to try RBSCP has been low. If you try it and it works I'd be interested to hear your results. Regards, Ryan Wilkins On Sep 19, 2009, at 4:48 PM, BH wrote: Summary: With some private replies I got a few leads. Most of which are not generic wan accellerators but still apprec

Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?

2009-06-02 Thread Ryan Wilkins
Got me beat.. I'm only doing 13 Mbps across 2 transponders. But that's also customer specific and not general Internet access. But one of the antennas that I'm using is inflatable. Seriously. Most people think I'm kidding about the inflatable part. On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Warren Ba