ftth_finland

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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Starlink costs $15k over 10 years and at the end of that you have nothing to show for the outlay. Fiber costs far less than $15k on average and it is as good as new after 10 years.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Wireless tech is a flash in the pan. The gear has to be replaced every few years as it ages out. Contrast that to fiber, you install it once and use it for decades. Government should only be subsidizing permanent infrastructure.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
3 Mbps/household is right about the lower bound for average Internet usage. It's not optimal, especially going forward, but it's fine for now. Upping those 2G backhauls to 10G is simple and cheap, however.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Sent you an email.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
The concept described in [1] is in no meaningful way different from a traditional fiber build and does not offer any cost advantage. You are also totally overselling the capabilities of your Fiberhood router. P.S. Your website in the paper
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Yes, I run multiple fiber ISPs.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Not all states. About 20 do, the rest do not.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
You can do 400 km with unrepeated systems. However, very seldom do you need or want to go that far on land since very, very few places worth connecting are more than 400 km from somewhere else. Repeatered systems can go thousands of miles a
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Subsea cables have built-in repeaters and they span thousands of miles. On land it’s usually easier and cheaper to use huts with power.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
This is a silly argument. The US is about the same size as Europe. Size is not a reason why the US has lack of access to high speed internet.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Was it red?
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
web-network-request-failed
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Those Irish taxes, tho…
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Betteridge's law strikes again.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
> Service providers like anywhere, net neutrality be damned, run Deep Packet Inspection boxes that have no other purpose in life but to negotiate down your connections for whatever you do the ISP finds egregious. Yeah, no. Even Comcast s
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
> Why are they outrageous? Because the price is a very large multiple of market prices. The Korean ISPs are using their termination monopoly to rent seek. > I've yet to see a reason that Netflix/twitch/etc. having to pa
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
It makes no sense to price wireless data based on IP transit costs. IP transit costs per GB are a fraction of a hundredth of a penny. It barely makes any sense to bill consumers per GB on any terrestrial network. In Northern Europe a typica
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
I love how the manager’s immediate reaction is to go for constructive dismissal.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Lazard only does LCOE for short term storage, since there is little to none long term storage.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
5 mph is 8 km/h. That’s quite a lot. Pay attention to your speed when you are driving. Most, if not all, modern cars have cruise control where you can set your speed if you are having trouble following the speed limits.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
No ISP would hesitate for a second to call out Apple on this kind of BS. Every pundit on the planet would make hay of the matter and everybody and their dog would know to not purchased Apple products since it breaks their Wi-Fi. All Apple w
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
I do not think any of those things would even remotely make up for the brand damage and bad will Apple would garner from breaking their customers’ Internet connectivity.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
The incentives are mixed. Regardless of if an ISP offers IPv6 or not, they still need IPv4. Thus if you are small and/or have enough IPv4 address space, IPv6 is just an additional cost and burden. The support burden of IPv6 isn’t trivi
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
What would be the upside to Apple for this? Apple has a vested interest in IPv6 working on mobile, but benefits nothing from disabling IPv4.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Online.net is the first one that comes to mind. There are others. FYI, with dedicated servers you don’t pay for colo separately. It’s included in the monthly fee. Bandwidth also, although on low end plans bandwidth might be limited or meter
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
With all due respect to the developer of Dystopia, the experience compared to Apollo is subpar. I tried twice already to use Dystopia, but I can’t really force myself. Probably just for the best to give up on Reddit.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
All I want is a podcast player that automatically cleans up the crappy audio.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
> No one has to take power from renewable sources. The EU disagrees with you. A certain percentage of power generation is mandated to come from renewables and nuclear is specifically excluded. IIRC there are no means for power compa
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
In the YouTube video in a sibling comment the rebuttal was that most chemical processes are continuous processes and require constant power, i.e. they become new baseload. Hydrogen generation does not have a flexible power demand, because a
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Can you be more specific? The nuclear guy from Germany didn’t make any particularly wild claims. All the while the renewables guy in the middle from the UK ignored the elephants in the room: - renewables as backed by gas peaking plants - ot

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