ahhh
TGIF.
eyecue: congratulations on surviving black friday ):
*:)
muchos gracias
what a week aye
spend the latter half of today enthralled in rack and rack accessory pricing from our supplier
and trying to work out front and rear of rack configurations
up_the_irons; on a related note, ive specd and quotes the apx sx's and switched pdu's.
s/apx/apc
im currently stuck on vertical cable management for the front of our patch cabinet :|
hmmmm only a couple of minutes until I can play "Lets see how bad I can stuff up my MythTV setup" :)
azmarco: please msg me too
jesus christ i love internode.
made a plan change last night adsl1->adsl2+, rollerover is midnight tonight, and theyve already made the dslam switch
i 'knew' my IRC messages were downloading faster tonight :D
eyecue: wow, thats fast
internode are oarsome
seriously
i was loading up apc.com and though to myself *hell thats quick*
eyecue: when I was in Brisbane internode didn't have any equipment in my exchange
did a speed check and realised i was getting 600k/sec
yeh me too
eyecue: Roma Street exchange?
and im only on their easy reach (telstra wholesale dslam)
my current exchange is in build for node dslam
few weeks i might be able to switch again :)
I had to go w/ TPG in Brisbane, they were okay, but half the battle was getting the phone connected in the first place
gah, flaky internets
:|
I was originally going to go via iiNet, but they couldn't get Telstra to connect the phone
honestly, i cant ever recommend anyone other than node
ive been on dsl1 for 2 years coz i lov enode so much
eyecue: yeah, I know plenty of people that love them
so the last plan i was on (yesterday) was dsl1 40gb, upstream only
for 69.95
$20 for 100GB?
:P
current plan, adsl2+ 60gb, upstram only (including power pack for 10/mo) for 59.95
:)
so same price
WIN!
don't you mean $10 cheaper?
well, the 59.95 counts uploads/downloads
you pay 10 bucks more, it counts down only
and you get a stat ip
eyecue: for comparison to NZ...
We pay ~65NZD for ADSL1 (at 2mbit/s), 30GB/mo
~50 AUD
hmm
gah
!
and you have translatlantic traffic
fail :)
next month, we'll be paying a combined 105 for phone + broadband you can take about $50 off that to take away the phone component, so ~55NZD, for ADSL1 (2mbps) & 40GB
oh noice
2mbps is because I live 5km from the exchange :)
ahh
im pretty close
oh wait, it's only 45 for the home phone, so ~60NZD for the Broadband
so it seems that NZ is cheaper than Telstra wholesale plans?
possibly,  ish
my prev plan was grandfathered 2 years ago
you get downstream only counted ?
nope, most ISPs count both directions
eyecue: but I'm going to be laughing soon
ive only ever been on down onlies
eyecue: next month (I think) the Rural Broadband Initiative goes live, and if what Telecom has told me on Twitter is true... I should be able to get Fibre to the Door pretty quickly
oh nice
:]
people that have Fibre running past their property in the RBI areas, can get FTTH
and Telecom happen to run a lot of their Exchange/National backhaul fibre alongside/through our property
sexy as :)
heck, we aren't allowed to dig in parts of our property without consulting Telecom
but meh, it'll be all worth it if we can really get Fibre to the Door :)
and it'll be much better than the 5Mbps wireless access promised to everyone else :P
eyecue: for what it's worth, I'm still jealous of the NBN :)
yeh, its pretty sexy :]
they keep promising FTTH in the UK too
FTTC is starting to catch on here, but of course you only get ~40mbit/s with that (and still the same crappy upload)
bob^^: FTTC+VDSL?
bob^^: is the C in UK Curb or Cabinet?
cabinet here, G
in areas which are FTTC enabled there's a large street cabinet every few streets in residential areas
then VDSL to homes
bob^^: yep, was just checking, because there is also Fibre to the Curb
yeah
i think that's a US thing?
Australia has it as well
mainly in Canberra
this is our only FTTC atm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Infinity
the criticism that wikipedia lists is correct; there are a lot of complaints here about the street cabinets
they are *huge*
the town i live in is 500 years old; they look *very* out of place and ugly :(
bob^^: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/chorus-half-way-through-fibre-roll-out-now-comes-hard-bit-122413 is what NZ has for cabinets
G: look about the same as the ones we have - ours are just the same but taller :)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/193/050ea.jpg/
oh, they look like the old style ones here
these new Telecom cabinets here and a nice shade of green
*are a
hehe
all of the street cabinets (even the old small voice ones) here are about the same shade of green
that's just so they can say they are going green
hehe
in fact, if I was building a house, I'd actually paint the outside in the same Green :)
outside or roof
ours have been the same shade of green forever :)
depending
toddf: the shade of green in bob's picture is pretty much standard in UK based countries I think :)
toddf: but NZ has chosen a newer darker green :)
darker would be better, less obvious :)
bob^^: you can kinda tell the shade of green in the picture I sent
yeah
defintely a little darker than ours
the new cabs here are quite noisy too
especially in warm weather when they have to turn on the ventilation systems
bob^^: old style cabinet: http://chillingsilence.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/telecom-geek-exchange-tour-2009/sdc10908/
new style: http://chillingsilence.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/telecom-geek-exchange-tour-2009/sdc10909/
yeah they're very similar to our old cabinets
apparently the new ones are really really really quite
i hope so
hence why they are called either Single or Double Bay Whisper Cabinets
the ones here are really bad
if i lived beside one i would be complaining to BT
yup.  zxfer rocks
mabel.insightcruises.com is now replicated to a box in texas, including all the snapshots!
hmmmm anyone else noticing IPv6 packet loss?
ahhh actually, might be at he.net
i'll check now
seems ok here
ahhh yeah, it's the tunnel server at he.net
ahh :(
i was going via genuine he.net v6 transit from london :)
mtr from my arp box to my tunnels IP, = packet loss at the tserv, mtr from home to arp box, = packetloss at the router after the tserv
gotta love mtr :)
mtr is a great little tool :)
my CIDR report is now squeaky clean: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS25795&view=2.0
100% aggregation
now if we could just get the rest of the internet to do that....
moin
:]
up_the_irons; where do you put your switches in your racks? front back, middle top ?
koobs: back top
in the server cabs?
and you trunk cables off to the side then down the vert rail ?
im looking over various schools of though about equipment layout
koobs: yes, server cabs
koobs: with 4x pdu's per cab, i don't have room for vertical wire managers, so i don't trunk them off to the side
ive seen some pretty good comments around rear middle positioning, for shorter cable runs and visibility (dont have to get up on a ladder)
just straight down and velcro'd nicely
ah ok
and youve got the 1070's iirc yeh ?
yeah
side to side fans for the switches then ?
whatever the switch supports
oo procurves have a modular fan assembly
and up_the_irons, does your toilet paper come off the front, or near the wall? :)
Hi, can I request for a reset back factory default on my VPS? I already emailed support a few hours ago but as of this moment I dont get a reply.
RandalSchwartz: LOL
atmark: it should be done shortly