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by iptrans 5y ago
There are only about 100k ASNs. It would be fairly easy to solve the bootstrapping problem by just preloading all the keys.
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by iptrans 5y ago
Not really. The parent to my original post identified a problem, but misdiagnosed the root cause and prescribed an incorrect solution. As noted above a lot of poles are owned by power companies that do not offer broadband service. Furthermo
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by iptrans 5y ago
> If only the first strand is expensive in a fiber deployment, why duplicate work by not installing residential fiber at the same time? Because 5G is expected to be more profitable than fiber and deploying fiber would require more CAPEX.
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by iptrans 5y ago
There are a lot of (high level) resources online, but on a practical level you will have to deal with local permitting and right of way issues, so there really can’t be an ultimate mater plan. Interestingly interconnection, or more precisel
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by iptrans 5y ago
Nah. You can get a 4 port 10G switch for about $100 from a known vendor.
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by iptrans 5y ago
The US has a well developed and competitive national backbone market. When building networks the geographical extremities of the nation do not matter, only the distance to the closest point of presence. Europe and the US are not that dissim
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by iptrans 5y ago
This appeal to American exceptionalism does not stand up to scrutiny. A lot of European countries have far lower population densities that the US, but still better infrastructure and broadband. The US just is that dysfunctional.
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by iptrans 5y ago
This isn’t about symmetric connections. It’s about Altice lowering the upstream from 35 Mbps to 5 Mbps. Going from 35 Mbps to 5 Mbps is ridiculous. It effectively lowers the quality of the broadband by bottlenecking connection. You need ups
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by iptrans 5y ago
> It's cheaper per capita to roll out fibre to 50 million people than to 5 million; This assumes an awful lot of things. If the average number of linear feet constructed grows when going from 5 million to 50 million then the cost pe
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by iptrans 5y ago
The above is, in conciliatory terms, hyperbole. In reductionist terms the real underlying reason for market failure is regulatory capture. As to utility poles, a large number of poles are owned by power companies who by and large do not off
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by iptrans 5y ago
Very few fiber optic systems are run at capacity. Upgrading bandwidth is therefore a matter of new optics and router cards, not new cables. Furthermore new subsea cables bring down the unit cost of bandwidth. Far more subsea cables have bee
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by iptrans 5y ago
Light travels more than a 100 miles per millisecond, so as long as the POP is within a few hundred miles you are good. Tromboning local traffic isn’t much of an issue anyway since very little of your traffic is hyper local. Most of your tra
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by iptrans 5y ago
I assume the grandparents refers to the tromboning inherent in the NZ design.
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by iptrans 5y ago
This is a solved problem. The municipality provides the fiber network. All ISPs rent dark fiber, local loops, wavelengths or bitstream access on equal open access terms. All on equal footing and equal terms.
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by iptrans 5y ago
WiFi is really bad at anything but in home connectivity.
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by iptrans 5y ago
ISPs would more likely than not take exception to such scraping. Even if they weren’t reporting accurate data, which they don’t always do.
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by iptrans 5y ago
WiFi is really poor as a last mile technology.
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by iptrans 5y ago
Muni wireless is generally a bad idea. It has been tried many times and failed. What you want is a municipally owner fiber network. What you really need to start a muni network is grassroots support. If the constituents want it it will be b
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by iptrans 5y ago
You can start your own community ISP if you can sign up enough neighbors. However, it’ll take years to build out and they payback will be far longer than two years. There’s even funding to be had, but it’s no small undertaking. Hit me up by
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by iptrans 5y ago
Alas, no such service exists. Even the FCC can’t get proper broadband coverage data by the zip code, not to mention by address.
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by iptrans 5y ago
Starlink is only an option for a very, very small portion of the population. The Starlink constellation has less total bandwidth than a single strand of fiber. It simply does not scale. Starlink only has permits for about a million terminal
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by iptrans 5y ago
The same cable was used for cell service...
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by iptrans 5y ago
Less sexy headline: “Internet down in Canadian village due to poor planning and lack of proper redundancy”
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by iptrans 6y ago
Use the front page RSS feed.
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by iptrans 6y ago
Can somebody add [video] to the title?
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by iptrans 6y ago
Repeaters are designed to last for the lifetime of the cable plant. Design lifetimes are 25 years or so. Repeater design is inherently very, very conservative because if the repeater fails, the cable fails. This results in an outage lasting
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by iptrans 6y ago
Yes, not that there's a large difference. Best Buy has pretty large markups, especially on short CAT6 cables. You can buy subsea cable for $10-$20 per meter. EDIT: the cost depends on how many layers of armoring you require. Deep sea c
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by iptrans 6y ago
Fortunately you only need repeaters every 80 km or so, so you'd only need a bit over a hundred repeaters across the 9000 km span. Repeaters aren't terrible expensive, so they only add a few million to the total cost.
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by iptrans 6y ago
10x is a fair estimate of cost vs regular armored fiber cable. Source: I've laid subsea cable.
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by iptrans 6y ago
> how does the mesh connect back to the internet? The same way any other network connects to the Internet, through an ISP. Nominally you can be an ISP yourself, but you still need to buy capacity from other network providers.

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