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I fired up the Boston FIoS measurement location today after a couple of days off, and found that suddenly FIoS doesn’t like the BitTorrent.
The line of purple dots all indicate measurements that reported an error code. All of those measurements come from Boston FiOS. See the real-time graph here.
Accident? Design? That I cannot comment on. [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
Now that I am back on US soil, I have some tips for surviving your trip to London.
GSM Phones. If you are one of the millions in the United States who subscribe to a CDMA service (Verizon, Sprint, etc.), invest a few bucks on eBay and buy a low-end, unlocked, tri-band GSM phone. I have used [...]
In: Life| Technology
13 Apr 2006It turns out that my boss had an old Treo 600 lying around the house he wasn’t using. And it turns out that it was a T-Mobile Treo 600, not the Verizon crud that the company provides. And since the company upgraded him to a Verizon Treo 700 (which doesn’t work in Europe, much to [...]
In: The Web| Web Performance
22 Feb 2006This morning, I was briefly waylaid by a colleague who wanted me to look at a traceroute for her. Her question: “Is it safe to say that alter.net is not Verizon?”
Answer: Nope.
Alter.net begat UU.net begat MCI/Worldcom begat MCI begat Verizon.
And so goes the world…
Technorati Tags: alternet, uunet, worldcom, mci, verizon, backbones, providers
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Life| Technology| Web Performance
17 Nov 2005Dan Bricklin writes up a great description of what I am getting next week: Verizon FiOS. [here]
So, now you know. It’s the PPPoE that’s going to kill my static connection to the Internet.
Any of you folks who volunteered to host GrabPERF, now would be a great time to step forward.
In: smp
11 Aug 2005Today, by special delivery, I got notice that FIOS is available at my house.
I called Comcast and asked how they were going to match this offer. They offered me $29.95/mo. for 6 months.
Now, because of my unique situation (i.e., requiring a semi-permamnent IP address to allow people to access my servers), I may be stuck [...]
In: smp
5 Jul 2005I recently switched all of my phone services back to Verizon. Today, I got a phone call from my former provider, MCI.
I have never experienced telephone slamming before, but “Tiffany Johnson” from MCI exposed me to the seedy side of the telephone market. I know why MCI is slamming departing customers: they need to get [...]
In: smp
1 Jul 2005Tried to set up Verizon DSL last night. Didn’t work; rotating IP addresses; a variety of line related issues. Cancelled the service this morning.
Sorry for any interruptions you may have encountered last night.
In: smp
26 Jun 2005After 4.5 years of customer loyalty, I have decided that I have had enough of Comcast’s outrageous prices. I will be switching to Verizon DSL as soon as the install kit arrives.
Due to the way that my DNS is managed, you may encounter issues connecting to the server during the couple of days that it [...]