Re:Sure. But can you telecommute from *Chantilly*?
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Yuck, that email address has been dead forever. Try carywiedemann at yahoo dot no instead.
I'm near the intersection of Walney and Poplar Tree (yes, by that big business park that has countless fiber lines [including a huge one to WorldCom] running through it). And yet, I still can't get anything but Cox RoadRunner.
CO Stats:
Serving CO CLLI Code: CNVIVACT
Serving CO Location: CENTREVILLE, VA
Distance from CO: 3.62 miles (19090 feet)
I'm not even going to mention AOL, Erols, or the CIA.
But you get the picture.
- Cary
Re:Sure. But can you telecommute from *Chantilly*?
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I live right in the heart of 20151, with Mae-East about a mile away, with my only broadband option as shitty shitty Cox RoadRunner service. And the funny thing is, everyone here is computer literate, so EVERYONE has Cox RoadRunner. (Can you say 400ms pings to the first hop?)
Come on Northern Virginia, we are the second Silicon Valley of the United States. The number of techies in No. VA exceeds that of anywhere else in the country. Someone step up to lead the building of one of these wireless networks.
If you want IrDA, you'll have to get a little fancier and go with apple's powerbook. Which is a much nicer machine by the way. Getting online with GSM phones is a sinch. I have GSM here in the US (thank you VoiceStream), and it works great.
Tell me about it! You know, MAE-EAST runs right through Reston/Chantilly... And I'm stuck here in East Chantilly with COX RoadRunner as my only high speed option, and it takes ***17*** hops to get to MAE-EAST. Can you say ridiculous?
c a r y w i e d e m a n n -at- y a h o o -dot- n o
A lot of these "blackholed" sites weren't actually blackholed... (Example: Macromedia [there is no reason whatsoever to blackhole macromedia])
Above.Net is such a large backbone provider because of its very large collection of peering agreements (ie. direct connection to another provider). This allows numerous valid routes to be found, and the more routes you find, the more chances that a quicker route will be present.
One of their big peers (which will rename nameless, but you can figure it out with a little research) took a major dive, but all their routers still showed that the shortest route was through the dead peer. Hence the seeming of pointlessly "blackholed" sites.
Attached below is a copy of the letter that Covad sent out.
--
Dear xxxxxxxxxxx,
One of our peers is experiencing network issues that are affecting our
peering points. We are working with the peer to resolved these issues, but
at this time we have no ETA. You may notice latency or packet loss across
these peering points.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing. If you have any
questions concerning this technical contact or would like to be removed
from this mailing list, please contact our 24x7 Call Center by email at
xxxxxx@above.net or call 1-877-xxx-xxxx / -1-408-xxx-xxxx.
Wow... someone actually sued an out-of-state.com company, had a represenative show up, and won the case! Has anyone ever done this with good old CyberThrill.com? They still owe me over $600 for click-throughs almost two years ago. I have made countless phone calls to their parent company, "the Internet Entertainment Group Inc.," including some to their office in the Bahamas, all to no avail. I still want my god damn money!
Not another planet! How am I going to remember its name? We'd have to create (gasp) new mnemonic devices.
My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine NGC-11297 Pizzas
People don't like change. Especially the change of something that has been drilled into their heads since the time they were 3. Expect a lot of debate about what to do with these new "mini-planets" between the scientific community and the general public.
I'm pretty sure this is the last we'll ever hear about "ThinDisc" or whatever on slashdot. The idea is absurd. If a company wants to supply their software to magazine readers, they'll supply a web address, not a ThinDisc. If I ever came accross one of these items "wrapped around a coke can" or in a magazine, I'd do what the rest of the world would do with it as well; see how good of a frisbee it makes (hey, maybe AOL does have a calling for these things)!
Anyway, I'm still waiting for indestructible credit card sized storage devices that can hold 6 terrabytes by means of optical pulses.
At this rate something tells me I'll be waiting for an awfully long time.
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Yuck, that email address has been dead forever. Try carywiedemann at yahoo dot no instead.
I'm near the intersection of Walney and Poplar Tree (yes, by that big business park that has countless fiber lines [including a huge one to WorldCom] running through it). And yet, I still can't get anything but Cox RoadRunner.
CO Stats:
Serving CO CLLI Code: CNVIVACT
Serving CO Location: CENTREVILLE, VA
Distance from CO: 3.62 miles (19090 feet)
- Cary
Hick town eh?
Oh yeah, way out there in Fairfax County.
Funny, we have the NRO, one of the largest airports in the US, an 802.11b wireless network, SGI, a linux users group, and an Intel datacenter, not to mention also having a boatload of linux careers. Oh yeah, and don't forget that MAE-East often gets cut by cows chewing on the fiber out here in hickville. Oh, I forgot some little things like ThinkGeek, NSI, and ARIN.
Oh yeah, and that hick high school is getting me my CCNA.
I'm not even going to mention AOL, Erols, or the CIA.
But you get the picture.
- Cary
I live right in the heart of 20151, with Mae-East about a mile away, with my only broadband option as shitty shitty Cox RoadRunner service. And the funny thing is, everyone here is computer literate, so EVERYONE has Cox RoadRunner. (Can you say 400ms pings to the first hop?)
Yeah, a lot of us are... someone needs to throw a LAN party.
Come on Northern Virginia, we are the second Silicon Valley of the United States. The number of techies in No. VA exceeds that of anywhere else in the country. Someone step up to lead the building of one of these wireless networks.
- Cary
(Chantilly)
He should've used the preview button!
Or do they not have one of those?
If you want IrDA, you'll have to get a little fancier and go with apple's powerbook. Which is a much nicer machine by the way. Getting online with GSM phones is a sinch. I have GSM here in the US (thank you VoiceStream), and it works great.
Tell me about it! You know, MAE-EAST runs right through Reston/Chantilly... And I'm stuck here in East Chantilly with COX RoadRunner as my only high speed option, and it takes ***17*** hops to get to MAE-EAST. Can you say ridiculous? c a r y w i e d e m a n n -at- y a h o o -dot- n o
Crap.... That last "Covad sent out," should say "Above.Net sent out." I need to start using my PREVIEW button.
A lot of these "blackholed" sites weren't actually blackholed... (Example: Macromedia [there is no reason whatsoever to blackhole macromedia])
Above.Net is such a large backbone provider because of its very large collection of peering agreements (ie. direct connection to another provider). This allows numerous valid routes to be found, and the more routes you find, the more chances that a quicker route will be present.
One of their big peers (which will rename nameless, but you can figure it out with a little research) took a major dive, but all their routers still showed that the shortest route was through the dead peer. Hence the seeming of pointlessly "blackholed" sites.
Attached below is a copy of the letter that Covad sent out.
--
Dear xxxxxxxxxxx,
One of our peers is experiencing network issues that are affecting our
peering points. We are working with the peer to resolved these issues, but
at this time we have no ETA. You may notice latency or packet loss across
these peering points.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing. If you have any
questions concerning this technical contact or would like to be removed
from this mailing list, please contact our 24x7 Call Center by email at
xxxxxx@above.net or call 1-877-xxx-xxxx / -1-408-xxx-xxxx.
Thank you.
AboveNet Communications
Metromedia Fiber Network
Wow... someone actually sued an out-of-state .com company, had a represenative show up, and won the case! Has anyone ever done this with good old CyberThrill.com? They still owe me over $600 for click-throughs almost two years ago. I have made countless phone calls to their parent company, "the Internet Entertainment Group Inc.," including some to their office in the Bahamas, all to no avail. I still want my god damn money!
Cary Wiedemann
well I did anyway =)
You're a sysadmin... imagine the pain of ordinary users trying to report real problems to their ISPs.
Now everyone can run a porn server without fear of big brother =)
Not another planet! How am I going to remember its name? We'd have to create (gasp) new mnemonic devices.
My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine NGC-11297 Pizzas
People don't like change. Especially the change of something that has been drilled into their heads since the time they were 3. Expect a lot of debate about what to do with these new "mini-planets" between the scientific community and the general public.
I'm pretty sure this is the last we'll ever hear about "ThinDisc" or whatever on slashdot. The idea is absurd. If a company wants to supply their software to magazine readers, they'll supply a web address, not a ThinDisc. If I ever came accross one of these items "wrapped around a coke can" or in a magazine, I'd do what the rest of the world would do with it as well; see how good of a frisbee it makes (hey, maybe AOL does have a calling for these things)!
Anyway, I'm still waiting for indestructible credit card sized storage devices that can hold 6 terrabytes by means of optical pulses.
At this rate something tells me I'll be waiting for an awfully long time.
Hell on earth.