Stefano Marinelli on Nostr: Ok, both FTTC lines are back online together. As expected and reported by the ...
Ok, both FTTC lines are back online together. As expected and reported by the providers, there was an issue at the central exchange related to the long power outage yesterday.
Interesting observation: one of the two providers, being a business contract, has a backup 4G SIM that automatically kicks in (unfortunately, it doesn't keep the assigned static IP but instead assigns a random one, which seems to be disliked by various captchas).
It is capped at 30 or 60 Mbit/sec down, 10/15 up, depending on their decision. During the entire time the FTTC lines were down, it was running at 30 Mbit/sec down.
Since I didn’t need to upload anything significant, I carried out my usual tasks both last night and this morning:
- Higher latencies, obviously, but not high enough to be bothersome during SSH sessions
- Performance was a bit less stable, with occasional latency spikes, but nothing "tragic"
- Fairly low TTL on connections. SSH sessions, which normally stay up for days even when idle, were being terminated after a few minutes of inactivity. I solved this by using mosh, as I often do when on the move.
Other than that, the interesting part is that I didn’t encounter any significant limitations in my usage. I was able to stream Young Sheldon (maybe half a second more of initial buffering – i.e., negligible), perform updates, and carry out tasks on my servers, etc. My wife didn't see any difference.
When I see regular people complaining because their mobile connection is "only" 500 Mbit/sec and thus "slow," it always makes me smile.
#Connections #IT #Internet
Interesting observation: one of the two providers, being a business contract, has a backup 4G SIM that automatically kicks in (unfortunately, it doesn't keep the assigned static IP but instead assigns a random one, which seems to be disliked by various captchas).
It is capped at 30 or 60 Mbit/sec down, 10/15 up, depending on their decision. During the entire time the FTTC lines were down, it was running at 30 Mbit/sec down.
Since I didn’t need to upload anything significant, I carried out my usual tasks both last night and this morning:
- Higher latencies, obviously, but not high enough to be bothersome during SSH sessions
- Performance was a bit less stable, with occasional latency spikes, but nothing "tragic"
- Fairly low TTL on connections. SSH sessions, which normally stay up for days even when idle, were being terminated after a few minutes of inactivity. I solved this by using mosh, as I often do when on the move.
Other than that, the interesting part is that I didn’t encounter any significant limitations in my usage. I was able to stream Young Sheldon (maybe half a second more of initial buffering – i.e., negligible), perform updates, and carry out tasks on my servers, etc. My wife didn't see any difference.
When I see regular people complaining because their mobile connection is "only" 500 Mbit/sec and thus "slow," it always makes me smile.
#Connections #IT #Internet