Re: New home builders without wires

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Brandon Martin wrote: But yeah, I'm of the impression that anything we'd colloquially call a "mansion" (which is much bigger than what the real estate agents would call one) is probably going to have dedicated service of some sort. The same goes for larger hotels, though s

Re: New home builders without wires

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Josh Luthman wrote: Why can't Gates just use the 1.2 Gbps Cable?  Just because he has the wealth to do something doesn't mean there's any requirement to do so. Uhm. Do you realize that cable is asymetric, with less than 35 Mbps upstream, and marketing bandwidth numbers are

Re: New home builders without wires

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Mike Hammett wrote: But you don't have to be that rich. You just need friendly local companies to work with. I'm not personal friends with any multi-billionaires, and I don't get invited to parties at multi-billionaire mega-mansions. So I don't have first-hand experience

Re: New home builders without wires

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Mike Hammett wrote: "But even the rich can't fix broadband access beyond their property line." It depends on how rich.  ;-) The limitations of the FCC Broadband map, if you are in the Top 10 (not percent, the Top 10) wealthest people in the USA, it doesn't apply to reali

Re[2]: New home builders without wires

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Aaron Wendel wrote: When I built my house a few years ago I put a 0 entry hand hole with 2" conduit in the ROW in front and pulled 96 SM into the basement. It takes a little convincing to get the providers to connect out there instead of running their own lines into my hou

Re: New home builders without wires

About 20% of new home construction is owner-financed ("Custom" homes). The builder will add essentially any "commercially reasonable" options the owner is willing to pay for. But even the rich can't fix broadband access beyond their property line. About 80% of new home construction is builder

Re: New home builders without wires

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, Karl Auer wrote: A friend was involved in a development project in a regional town. They specified conduits everywhere. When the network people showed up at some random later date, they mostly just had to pull stuff through existing conduits. Not sure of the details beyond th

Re: New home builders without wires

Although some folks were talking about inside structured wiring, I was trying to address lack of outside plant (provider side to DEMARC). I went down the rabbit hole trying to understand what was happening when my friend first told me about buying in a neighborhood with no telephone or cabl

Re: overly timid congestion control with amazon prime live video

I replied to Dan off list to investigate. Any Prime Video quality issues reported to an ISP by customers or CDN issues can be sent directly to primevideo-isp...@amazon.com . Thanks, Sean >> On Dec 13, 2024, at 3:52 PM, Daniel Sterling >> wrote: >> >> While strea

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

At least eight U.S. telecommunications firms were compromised in the attack, a senior White House official said https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/dozens-of-countries-hit-in-chinese-telecom-hacking-campaign-top-u-s-official-says-2a3a5cca Chinese government officials have denied r

Re: 2 undersea cables cut

On average about 200 submarine cable damage incidents every yearEssentially all submarine cable damage is accidental not sabotage.  The few cases of intentional attacks is so rare, that folks in the industry know them as part of the stories passed down.Easy to accuse but takes months to do the fore

FCC NPRM: Updating Security for Vital Submarine Cables

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on submarine cable security. Approximately 84 of the 600 global inter-country submarine cables are licensed by the FCC, and a few intra-territorial cables. https://www.fcc.gov/document/updating-

WP: Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/chinese-government-hackers-penetrate-us-internet-providers-spy/ Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoin

Re: Digicert revoking certain certs failing CNAME validation

Affects 83,267 certs impacting 6,807 Digicert subscribers. Less than 0.4% Digicert Domain Validated (DV) certs. As far as I know, the major browser vendors no longer show any user visible distinction between different types of certificate issuance validation. UI testing found users didn't

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

Somewhere I have a first edition of Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated, in some box of books I can't find. Strangely, "3600 seconds" is one timeout value which doesn't exist in that chapter (or TCP). Yep, ISPs and middleware boxes use that value, often incorrectly. On Mon, 22 Jul 2024, Mel Beck

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

According to speedtest.net (Akamai has apparently stop publishing its data) Fixed Broadband (Global median): 93 Mbps (download) / 47 Mbps (upload) Mobile Broadband (Global median): 56 Mbps (download) / 11 Mbps (upload) By Country (fixed broadband) 1. Singapore 285 Mbps 159. Cuba 2.7 Mbp

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

OMG, Not trying to solve Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Just trying to choose reasonable timeouts for my TCP packets :-) Middleware boxes suck -- its IETF week. On Mon, 22 Jul 2024, Mel Beckman wrote: *A. Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, authorized translatio

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

According to Cloudflare Latency under average utilization by continent North America 41 ms South America 46 ms Europe 34 ms Africa 108 ms Asia 84 ms Oceania 35 ms Not clear what is included in Cloudflare "continents." Oceania is listed with the 2nd hi

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

stationary satellite hops. On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, Sean Donelan wrote: What is the current estimated diameter of the Internet? Maximum (worst-case) RTT edge-to-edge? Most public latency data is now edge-to-cloud, not edge-to-edge. Cloud engineers have done a great job, and edge-to-cloud less tha

Current diameter of the Internet?

What is the current estimated diameter of the Internet? Maximum (worst-case) RTT edge-to-edge? Most public latency data is now edge-to-cloud, not edge-to-edge. Cloud engineers have done a great job, and edge-to-cloud less than 1-sec RTT. Where have the long-slow pipes gone? https://www.cl

Re: Correcting national address databases?

Since I did address database software for public libraries for a couple of decades Addresses are complicated. In North American (USA & Canada) there are approximately 80,000 localities, counties, states and federal addressing authorities (mostly local building and planning departments)

Re: Correcting national address databases?

Visit your local post office ask for the postmaster. They can’t fix it but should have a form to correct the database used by almost all shippers in the U.S. unfortunately may take 6 months to propagate changes. Can also call 1-800-275-8777 but usually local postmaster is helpful. > On May 29,

Re: Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

The FCC's job isn't to solve technical problems. Instead it is attempting to get CEOs, business managers and venture capital firms to include these public policy requirements as part of their business decision making. Impact business budgets and decision making to fix public problems. FCC

Re: Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

Sigh, industry hasn't solved spoofing and routing insecurity in two decades. If it was easy, everyone would have fixed it by now. Industry has been saying 'don't regulate us' for decades.

Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

Should FCC focus on SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities? https://www.404media.co/email/79f7367c-bd3c-4bff-ac9f-85c738d08bec/ https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10427582404839/1 Additional comments from Kevin Briggs: "I have seen what appears to be reliable information related to numerou

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

Microsoft is the only mail provider that exhibits this behiavor. And I've heard the same thing from other people using small domains. The Microsoft autobot response a few years ago said "the domain didn't send enough emails." I don't know why I would send more emails to a provider which d

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

Yep, just had another one. Email to local election office silently vanishes because it uses Office365 Cloud email. Needed to use Gmail instead. On Tue, 12 Mar 2024, John Levine wrote: It appears that Sean Donelan said: Microsoft's corporate email systems appear to silently drop

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

Microsoft's corporate email systems appear to silently drop email from small domains (like mine). Yes, I jumped through the public hoops already. Microsoft may have a great Trust and Safety Team, but their corporate infrastructure doesn't seem to want to hear from outsiders. If the increasi

RE: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Travis Garrison wrote: This would be a company that has registered for an office365 account. Office 365 company accounts are registered as companyname [dot] onmicrosoft [dot] com. You then add domain aliases if you want to use your own preferred domain name. Microsoft "Know

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

The subdomain[dot]onmicrosoftp[dot]com domain seems to be almost 99% spammers riding on Microsoft's reputation. I've given up on any real email from those subdomains, and just block it completely. Reputable companies using Microsoft cloud mail usually have their own registered domains as r

Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

.  Contractors need that. Global networks rarely have a contact appropriate for provisioning in a public facing database. On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 14:50 Sean Donelan wrote: Authentication by letterhead? Paper LOAs are unauthenticated documents, not worth the paper they are

Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

Authentication by letterhead? Paper LOAs are unauthenticated documents, not worth the paper they are written on. Usually FAXed, which is even less authenticatable (is that a word?). Prosecutors are capable of using digital documents. Do it all the time with echecks, credit cards, ecommerce o

EU Gigabit Infrastructure Act agreement - in-building infrastructure access

While I'm still asking a builder in the USA about pre-wiring new construction house The EU has included in-building infrastructure and fiber ready requirements in its new Gigabit Infrastructure act. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/02/06/gigabit-infrastruc

Federal subsidy boosting internet affordability set to expire unless Congress acts | PBS NewsHour

The Affordable Connectivity Program will expire tomorrow unless renewed by Congress It won’t have an immediate impact but FCC will stop accepting new applications. Current applications will continue until existing funds run out. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-subsidy-boosting-i

NFPA 70 National Electrical Code 2026 first draft changes

The Code Making Panels for the NFPA 70 National Electrical Code meet for the last couple of weeks (Jan 15-26, 2024). One proposed change for 2026 is "Keeping the NEC Relevant - Is Now the Time to Modernize?" https://peg.atis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NEC-Correlating-Committee-White-Paper

Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

350 Cermak Chicago is a "historic" building which means you can't change the visible outside. Someone had long discussions about the benefits of outside air economizers, but can't change the windows. Need to hide HVAC plant (as much as possible). I would design all colos to look like 375

FCC rejects Starlink application for $900 million subsidy

FCC REAFFIRMS DECISION TO REJECT STARLINK APPLICATION FOR NEARLY $900 MILLION IN SUBSIDIES Applicant Failed to Meet Burden for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund The Federal Communications Commission today reaffirmed the Wireline Bureau’s prior decision to reject the long-form application of St

Re: "Lit" Buildings

On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Mike Hammett wrote: For those of you who list your network (usually wireline, but sometimes wireless) with third parties, are you supplying just the KMZ or lit buildings as well? If lit buildings, are you including residential? How are you defining near-net? In the ancient d

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I think an important point for pre-wire and residential real estate developers to consider is also the conflicting needs of keeping things "neat and tidy" and last mile CPE location vs wifi coverage. The answer is always 5G - 5G - 5G. A 5G solution means

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

You've misunderstood the goal. The intent is not to protect the fiber, but to make it easier for the field tech installing new service in a neat way through finished construction and concealled raceways, without cutting sheetrock or stapling exposed cabling across walls. Trying to prevent

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

I should have known better, network engineers don't work on the physical infrastructure very much anymore - memories of sitting on concrete floors crimping cable ends in to many IXPs :-) If you never seen or installed ENT Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing Conduit, also known as "smurf tube" --

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

On 11/28/23 12:43, Owen DeLong wrote: I’ve never used ENT (never even seen that name, TBH). 1” EMT is readily available at Home Depot and Lowes out here as well as several reputable supply houses. The nice thing about promoting industry standards is clever products to meet those standards wi

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Stan Barber wrote: That being said, I would ask if the home is being prewired for alarm services or not. If so, you could find an avenue to ask about other things. My sister and her husband just bought a new house outside of Dallas and it is coming prewired for RG6, wired ala

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

My relative is buying a new house is a typical American surbuban tract housing development. Yep, I'm the extended family I.T. consultant. The marketing brochure calls it "custom home" but he only gets to talk to the developer's "design consultants", i.e. sales people. The developer has a sal

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Thanks Brandon Martin, I agree 1-inch smurf tube is overkill for FTTH. From my quick research into all things FTTH, which I didn't know anything a week ago :-) ... The regulators in other countries still believe they will create competition. The 25mm/32mm access duct (I'm going to make up a

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Sorry long, detailed message. TL;DR - Use 1-inch trade size smurf tube for new North America FTTH construction. North American FTTH may not have standards for the in-building access conduit between the demarc point, Minimum Point of Entry (MPOE) in the old terminology, and the dwelling's dis

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

For *only* $1,000, the builder is willing to pre-install a smurf tube from the demarc to the central distribution point. But such a deal for 5G Since most fiber installs seem to use pre-connectorized cable, without affecting building structure integrity (i.e. 2-inch is too big according

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Around here, the local carrier seems to have stopped FTTH deployment. Instead, the carrier is convincing home builders not to spend money on demarc pre-wire. Wireless Home 5G service is all customers' need. Of course, the lack of demarc planning makes things more expensive for any post-cons

Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Of course, every local carrier will be different, what are the current preferences for pre-wiring a customer demarc (NID, the box that hangs on the outside of the house, whatever the service provider calls it now)? 1. Nothing - telco/cable will do whatever the heck they want and wreck the o

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

On Mon, 23 Oct 2023, James Jun wrote: "2N" generally means you're connected to completely different UPS system/complex and corresponding distribution systems for each of your circuit. This is ideal configuration for most critical loads. If you are in a single facility, even one with 2N+2 bac

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

165 Halsey (and most of its tenant) data centers is an older facility. Data center practices have changed over the decades, and terminlogy wasn't standardized until recently. The biggest FUBAR in telco and data centers is the difference between "redundancy" and "diversity." Redundant A/B

FCC and CISA host roundtable on Alerting Security Oct 30 2023

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), together with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Emergency Communications Division, will host a public roundtable on the cybersecurity of the nation’s public alert and warni

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

The Disability Advocacy Community has been extensively involved with CMAS/WEA since President Bush signed the WARN Act, passed by a republican house and republican senate, in 2006. The dozens of disability groups helped design the sound and vibration cadence (which is different than EAS), a

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, William Herrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:21 AM Sabri Berisha wrote: Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii. For the national alert you can't. That's intentional. Although for some reason my silenced phone made

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote: Ah, I didn't realize that was locally set on the device--I thought that was part of the message header in the message being sent out. Thanks for the clarification.  ^_^ Yep. That's why countries with a Prime Minister (or monarch or both) were complai

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote: Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^; (Samsung Galaxy phone) Yeah, Samsung is bad about releasing software updates for its older (a few months old) products. Thin

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Inter-agency bureaucracy. FEMA is part of Homeland Security. National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. Different departments of the government. Weather radios will active for a White House issued alert from the President. NOAA doesn't activate weather radios for FEMA t

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, nanog08 wrote: Move?  ...  :-) Off planet? All countries in the European Union, plus at least 35 other countries around the world, have or will soon implement their county-specific version of Emergency Mobile Alerts. Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan A. Krenzischek wrote: Yes, I already tried rebooting several times. Perhaps a large hammer will fix it! At least I know I'll be well notified in an emergency. Everytime you turn off a mobile device, it clears the cache of previous alerts. You will receive the

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

There are dozens of WEA alerts every day, 365x7 days a year. If you leave a hidden burner phone turned on the other 364 days a year, it will make a noise from something else. Software mute buttons never mute everything. Some groups use once a year events to get publicity for their causes (

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan A. Krenzischek wrote: I've only gotten the alert now ...9 times. Unless you keep turning your phone off, alerts have a serial number. Phones check the serial number for recently received alerts. Or so Android and iOS developers claim. If you are getting duplicate

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote: Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii. Do you mean the 98 people (at least) who died due to the Maui Lahaina wildfires. Seems like the same people who complain about the testing of public warnin

U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

This year's test of the U.S. national emergency alert includes something for ISPs and network operators. The wireless portion of the national test is scheduled 2 minutes (2:18pm EDT or 1818 UTC) before the main broadcast test at 2:20. Mobile phones usually receive the alert about a minute

Canadian regulator CRTC hires private company to investigate 2022 Rogers outage

CRTC hires private company to investigate 2022 Rogers outage Critics say regulator being too secretive about probe, too slow to force more transparency from big telecoms https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-rogers-outage-investigation-1.6963052 CBC News has learned Canada's telecommunication

University of Michigan shuts down school’s internet connections

Only interesting for this list because of NANOG's history with MERIT and UofM. Long since separated. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/university-of-michigan-cyber-incident-offline/index.html The University of Michigan has been without full internet access for two days after staff shut

RE: California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts

y day -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 3:01 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts WARNING: This message originated outside of Ford Motor Company. Use caution when opening attach

California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts

For California only (I don't have sources for Hawaii). no reported loss of life 58,555 telecom subscribers out of service 54,514 power subscribers out of service 85 cell sites out of service (7 damanged, 52 transport, 20 no power) Less than 1% OOS in declared area 2 PSAPs (911) out of servic

Re: Amazon Prime NOC contact

Josh,I responded to Adair off list.  Any other ISPs having a geolocation issue (or traffic issues) with Prime Video are welcome to contact me for our engineering alias and I will open a ticket.  I am working to get a direct contact for Geo issues added to Brothers WISP list, but I don’t think today

Copper wire thefts increase 139% in one California county

Copper wire thefts of all kinds appear to be increasing in 2023. Not just telecommunications copper cables, but also electric and transit cables. San Joaquin County reported a 139% increase in copper wire thefts over four months, and one theft in the county left the 911 center unable to re

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Delong.com wrote: Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers There’s probably close to that number in the South Bay Area of California as well. California is well-known for its state enviromental laws and zoning, so some of the issues with the 'wild-west' zoning of ru

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers. The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers The electric grid complaints are about the demand on

Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Backlash to data centers prompts political upset in northern Virginia By MATTHEW BARAKAT https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-data-centers-prince-william-229cb44d34ccf4bd1cc4e9f0d0131649 FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The tech industry’s drive to dot the Virginia landscape with data centers

FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

While a lot of ISPs gave up on data caps, the language is still lurking in many Terms Of Service. https://www.fcc.gov/document/chair-rosenworcel-proposes-investigate-impact-data-caps proposed Notice of Inquiry to learn more about how broadband providers use data caps on consumer plans. Da

Hawaii gets a PEP station KHKA CBS 1500

Hawaii has been unique since the beginning of EBS. The State of Hawaii EOC acted as the local Primary Entry Point. All the other PEP stations on the mainland are commercial broadcast stations, based on early EBS working agreements between NAB, White House, FCC and predecessor agencies of FEMA

NWS service assessment on 2021 Hurricane Ida

Just published, buried in the after-action report on 2021 Hurricane Ida Commodity internet access is now part of life-safety. National Weather Service Service Assessment August-September 2021 Hurricane Ida April 2023 https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/Hurricane_Ida_Service

Re: Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

If both PV battery walls and broadband CPE supported Power-Over-Ethernet as a backup power source, that would work too. POE supports greater distances than USB-C. I'd prefer broadband CPE (UL listed) with a standardized backup power connector (doesn't exist, but I can dream). For DIYers, bu

Re: Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Joe Greco wrote: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter PoE 5 can use 48VDC. If both PV battery walls and broadband CPE supported Power-Over-Ethernet as a backup power source, that would work too. POE supports greater distances than USB-C.

Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

Are broadband CPE (ONTs, CMs, NIDs, etc) manufacturers and PV battery wall engineers working on any standardized CPE backup power connectors? AC/DC/AC & wall wart DC again is inefficient and reduces runtime. It would be nice if PV/DC battery wall and broadband CPE had a standard DC connecto

Land Mobile Radio (LMR) for Information Technology (IT) Professionals

IT professionals are often tasked with planning, provisioning, implementing, and managing LMR networks with the assumption that all computer networks are basically the same and have the same general requirements. However, in some cases this assumption has resulted in LMR networks being inade

Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

Verizon network maintenance will impact access to the “National Driver Register,” a system that motor vehicle offices around the country need to check before handing out a license. All 50 states and D.C. participate in the National Driver Register, a database maintained by the National Highway

Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/last-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-vietnam-with-the-world-breaks-down/248731.vnp Since February 10 when telecommunication firms took technical solutions and opened up more data flows on land-based cables, the Internet connections have been improved and 50% of i

FCC order regarding Urth Access LLC

The FCC is (slowly, slowly) increasing robocall enforcement. It issued a cease and desist letter, and directed all voice service providers to take steps to effectively mitigate suspected illegal robocall traffic made by or on behalf of the following: (1) Urth Access, LLC (Urth Access); (2)

Power outages Maryland near Washington DC (Plane crash into power lines)

A small plane crashed into high-voltage transmission power lines in Montgomery County, Maryland; near Washington DC. Most of the data centers are in Northern Virginia, but some are in Southern Maryland (Wheaton, Olney, Gaithersburg and as far away as Silver Spring). https://wtop.com/montg

FCC Requires Broadband Providers to Display Labels to Help Consumers

The effective date will be determined later, after publication in the Federal Register and OMB review under PRA. November 17, 2022—The Federal Communications Commission today unveiled new rules that will for the first time require broadband providers to display easy-tounderstand labels to allo

Re: AWS Blacklisting?

Try here: http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn/ -Sean On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 5:52 PM Justin H. wrote: > I have a customer who's suddenly been getting 403's today on AWS hosted > sites. My google-fu seems to be failing me because I can't seem to find >

FCC October meeting: Caller ID Authentication on Non-IP Network

Caller ID Authentication on Non-IP Networks – The Commission will consider a Notice of Inquiry launching a broad inquiry on caller ID authentication technology for non-Internet Protocol networks. (WC Docket No. 17- 97) https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-tentative-agenda-october-open-

FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

'Fines alone aren't enough:' FCC threatens to blacklist voice providers for flouting robocall rules https://www.cyberscoop.com/fcc-robocall-fine-database-removal/ [...] “This is a new era. If a provider doesn’t meet its obligations under the law, it now faces expulsion from America’s phone net

Ian and Fiona status reports

Ian (Florida, September 28, 2022) 102,000 customer power outages in Florida 188 (1.4%) cell sites out of service worst is MONROE county 12 cell sites (12.1%) 26,716 cable and wireline subscribers out of service Fiona (Puerto Rico, September 28, 2022) 335,000 customers without power in Pu

Cuba island-wide power outage after hurricane Ian

Lazaro Guerra, the technical director of the Electric Union of Cuba, the country’s state power company, said Cuba had "zero electric generation" after the hurricane caused problems in links in the west, center and east of the island. Mr. Guerra said crews would be working all night and Wedne

Hurrican Fiona

September 23, 2022 Hurricane Fiona downgraded to category 3 storm. Headed towards Nova Scotia Canada. Approximately, 30,722 (85%) of customers without power after Hurrican Fiona passes by Bermuda. IODA shows Internet service in Bermuda about 50%. https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/count

WSJ Explainer: Taiwan has 14 submarine cables

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/how-chinas-military-drills-could-choke-off-taiwans-internet/854E2910-16D3-4265-93B0-19551CB1B3B1 How China’s Military Drills Could Choke Off Taiwan’s Internet Taiwan has 14 submarine cables that connect the island to the rest of the world By Wall

Re: Island-wide power blackout in Puerto Rico

From FCC report for September 20, 2022 (based on data from the prior day). Average of 30% (766) cell sites out of service. Worst >80% out of service in CULEBRA and LAS MARIAS. Cable and wireline companies reported 795,289 subscribers out of service. From U.S. Dept of Energy report for Se

Re: Island-wide power blackout in Puerto Rico

Latest FCC report (September 19, 2022 based on previous day reporting). Overall, 24.3% (617) cell sites out of service. This is relatively good, because Fiona was only a category 1 hurricane. Less wind, more rain meant less damage to towers. However, wireline and cable companies report 76

Island-wide power blackout in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is experiencing an island-wide power blackout (100%). Today's (based on yesterday's information) FCC Communication Status Report only reports 6.9% of cell towers out of service. I expect tomorrow's report (based on today's information) will be worse.

Re: China Telecom in Hunan office tower fire

Statement from China Telecom (translation by Google Translate) "This afternoon, the façade of the Changsha Second Communication Building caught fire, and the fire was extinguished. In order to prevent danger, some equipment in the building has been powered off. At present, fixed-line communi

China Telecom in Hunan office tower fire

The China Telecom office tower fire in Hunan is reportedly out, after completely burning the entire 200m tower (42-floors). China Telecom statement: "By around 4:30 pm today, the fire at our No. 2 Communications Tower in Changsha has been extinguished. No casualties have yet been discovered

Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?

Article by Internet Society's Resident Advisor Jim Cowie. Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months? https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/rogers-outage-what-do-we-know-after-two-months September 9, 2022 It’s now been a full two months since Rogers Telecom suffered a nationwide Intern

End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

Are Sprint AS1239 and Cogent AS174 finally going to settle their peering disputes? T-Mobile sells legacy Sprint wireline business to Cogent for $1, expects hefty charge https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cogent-communications-acquire-t-mobiles-wireline-business-2022-09-07/ 1,400 custome

Re: VZ FIOS and Intel TCP IPv6 Checksum Offload problems

On Sat, 27 Aug 2022, Michael Thomas wrote: In some situations where a client machine is connected via some specific Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and data is appended after the packet checksum, the network adapter can drop receive packets when using TCP-IPv6 Checksum Offload for receive tra

VZ FIOS and Intel TCP IPv6 Checksum Offload problems

Hopefully, my pain will help someone else. I've had sporadic Internet slowdowns and stuck networking since IPv6 was enabled on my FIOS ONT a few months ago. After too much troubleshooting, I found out some older Intel GbE ethernet cards have a IPv6 Checksum Offload incompatibility with certai

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