Hardware: YouTube is hiccuping

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Maybe I am seeing network issues. It could be Verizon. But both Verizon Filos and Verizon vwbbie (Verizon’s wireless broadband hooked thu the mifi2200) are failing to play Taylor Swift videos. (yes, I know a terrible loss to western civilization!) but could it be a conspiracy to sell ipad3s and 4g service. If I was the cynical type, I suspect Verizon want folks to upgrade to 4g and may have degraded the 3G performance to pop sites. I’m sure that biz, who uses it for DR and salesforce automation, will not have any problems. But that’s cynical. After all, not like anyone would collude to fix prices on ebooks? Or anything else! Argh!

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NETWORK: FIOS is waiting for an invite to play along?

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Last login: Thu Sep 29 08:16:27 on ttys000

ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ traceroute legacy.com

traceroute to legacy.com (64.29.209.53), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 2.182 ms 1.029 ms 1.036 ms

2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.804 ms 1.662 ms 1.564 ms

3 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-142.verizon-gni.net (173.54.118.1) 9.966 ms 10.157 ms 10.182 ms

4 g14-0-5-1342.nwrknj-lcr-03.verizon-gni.net (130.81.146.210) 11.384 ms 10.288 ms 9.350 ms

5 130.81.29.192 (130.81.29.192) 11.378 ms * *

6 0.so-7-1-0.xl3.ewr6.alter.net (152.63.17.141) 11.219 ms 11.654 ms 8.044 ms

7 0.ge-7-3-0.xl3.mia4.alter.net (152.63.1.110) 54.991 ms 55.924 ms 55.475 ms

8 0.gigabitethernet4-0-0.gw9.mia4.alter.net (152.63.81.165) 56.610 ms 56.595 ms 55.118 ms

9 splicetelecom-gw.customer.alter.net (63.65.188.30) 60.230 ms 61.798 ms 58.155 ms

10 g0-7-0-0.br2.mia.terremark.net (66.165.161.74) 75.413 ms 75.862 ms 78.487 ms

11 t0-7-0-1.br2.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.230) 73.765 ms 74.308 ms 74.614 ms

12 g0-5-0-1.br1.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.237) 73.760 ms 72.505 ms 72.477 ms

13 66.165.161.34 (66.165.161.34) 74.895 ms 96.776 ms 74.905 ms

14 66.165.160.94 (66.165.160.94) 74.315 ms 74.715 ms 75.395 ms

15 64.29.192.169 (64.29.192.169) 74.479 ms 73.667 ms 73.206 ms

16 legacy.com (64.29.209.53) 74.099 ms 74.647 ms 78.211 ms

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ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ traceroute legacy.com

traceroute to legacy.com (64.29.209.53), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 * * *

2 * 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 4.325 ms 1.766 ms

3 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-142.verizon-gni.net (173.54.118.1) 7.405 ms 9.316 ms 12.011 ms

4 g14-0-5-1342.nwrknj-lcr-03.verizon-gni.net (130.81.146.210) 43.334 ms * 9.774 ms

5 so-6-0-1-0.nwrk-bb-rtr1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.29.192) 9.888 ms 7.858 ms 9.550 ms

6 0.so-7-1-0.xl3.ewr6.alter.net (152.63.17.141) 9.036 ms 9.648 ms 7.047 ms

7 0.ge-7-3-0.xl3.mia4.alter.net (152.63.1.110) 55.140 ms 55.427 ms 85.065 ms

8 0.gigabitethernet4-0-0.gw9.mia4.alter.net (152.63.81.165) 56.946 ms 66.278 ms 58.106 ms

9 splicetelecom-gw.customer.alter.net (63.65.188.30) 57.717 ms 58.689 ms 60.307 ms

10 g0-7-0-0.br2.mia.terremark.net (66.165.161.74) 76.709 ms 76.813 ms 81.045 ms

11 t0-7-0-1.br2.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.230) 76.421 ms 103.590 ms 72.552 ms

12 g0-5-0-1.br1.dfw3.terremark.net (66.165.161.237) 74.357 ms 74.819 ms *

13 66.165.161.34 (66.165.161.34) 74.476 ms 79.334 ms 72.652 ms

14 66.165.160.94 (66.165.160.94) 74.853 ms 74.175 ms 76.947 ms

15 64.29.192.169 (64.29.192.169) 72.631 ms * 73.467 ms

16 legacy.com (64.29.209.53) 73.761 ms 74.728 ms 75.582 ms

ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$

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NETWORK: What do you do when the inet doesn’t inet

Friday, September 23, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/

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ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ tracert http://www.irishcentral.com

-bash: tracert: command not found

ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air:~ reinkefj$ traceroute http://www.irishcentral.com/

traceroute to http://www.irishcentral.com/ (67.215.65.132), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 1.725 ms 1.114 ms 1.281 ms

2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.185 ms 5.412 ms 3.534 ms

3 l100.nwrknj-vfttp-142.verizon-gni.net (173.54.118.1) 8.548 ms 6.758 ms 8.521 ms

4 g14-0-5-1442.nwrknj-lcr-04.verizon-gni.net (130.81.146.236) 9.607 ms 7.261 ms 7.487 ms

5 so-6-0-1-0.nwrk-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net (130.81.29.194) 13.408 ms 7.395 ms 7.574 ms

6 0.so-7-0-0.xl4.ewr6.alter.net (152.63.20.13) 17.648 ms 11.947 ms 12.394 ms

7 0.so-6-0-2.xl4.iad8.alter.net (152.63.0.130) 17.047 ms 52.156 ms 17.317 ms

8 pos7-0.gw4.iad8.alter.net (152.63.41.33) 17.796 ms 19.431 ms 17.285 ms

9 65.222.158.82 (65.222.158.82) 19.852 ms 22.606 ms 20.081 ms

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12 * * *

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Sort of like calling an old friend who’s cross country and the number just rings off the hook. Or they “go AWOL” from FACEBOOK or email.

Argh!

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NETWORK: “In the same way”? Not Quite

Sunday, February 13, 2011

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/ipv6-marks-next-chapter-in-history-of.html

IPv6 marks the next chapter in the history of the Internet
2/03/2011 01:39:00 PM

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In the same way your phone is associated with a unique number, your computer is assigned a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address when you connect to the Internet. The current protocol, IPv4, allows for approximately 4 billion unique addresses—and that number is about to run out.

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Unfortunately, not really.

I’ve had the same home phone number for more than three decades. Thru three PSPs (Phone Service Providers).

ISPs play all sorts of games with “my” IP address. Not to mention that I have wifi router that automagically “counterfeits” the mac addresses to allow me to “fool” the ISPs network.

Argh!

It’s more imprecise language that encourages fuzzy thinking.

We really have two different kinds of internet. An internet of things controlled by the manufacturers with mac addresses and the internet of people controlled by the ISPs.

We can say that the IPV4 problem is an ISP problem; not a User problem.

Certainly, not MY problem. I get nothing out of it.

I’m more interested in mesh networks and P2PDNS.

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NETWORK: Carriers Hold the Cards

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/iphone-verizon-sucks/

Verizon iPhone Shows You Can’t Win: Carriers Hold the Cards

By Brian X. Chen February 7, 2011 | 4:45 pm

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On the day that iPhone preorders began last week, Verizon quietly revised its policy on data management: Any smartphone customer who uses an “extraordinary amount of data” will see a slowdown in their data-transfer speeds for the remainder of the month and the next billing cycle. It’s a bit of a bait-and-switch. One of Verizon’s selling points for its version of the iPhone is that it would come with an unlimited data plan — a marked contrast to AT&T, which eliminated its unlimited data plans last year.

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“A BIT”!

Are you kidding me?

Where’s the FTC on false advertising, the FCC on “telecom regulation”, and DOJ on “restraint of trade”? (… or do you think APPLE’s IPAD just isn’t welcome on the T-MOBILE network.)

How come they (DOJ) took AT&T apart at the seams and ruined a “national treasure” (Universal cheap local phone service and Bell Labs)? But they leave the cesspool of cable and telcos “unregulated”. Talk about “regulatory capture”!

I think it’s “real simple”. Reintroduce the idea that you can make hardware, software, or the network. But never the twain shall meet. If you open an “app store” then you can’t be in the business of making software.

How about the doctrine of “first sale” and all this “licensing” nonsense? You have to be kidding me!

The crippled DVRs of the cable and telcos is unfair competition with TIVO.

And, billing? Sorry but you can’t mislabel “fees” as “taxes”. And, you can’t pre-bill, post-bill, or change it as you go along.

Finally, “agreements” that are “agreed to” after the purchase, or have legalese, or that are 37 pages of small print designed to be “read” in real time on a computer screen should be presumed to be fraudulent and thus null and void.

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NETWORK: Wifi ain’t as simple as everyone thinks?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Apple needs to work on its networking software. I know they really want to be an appliance and that Users s don’t need to bother with the details. BUTT (there’s always a big but):

• At RWJUH, the IPAD can not connect to the wifi, but the MACBOOKAIR can.

• At SPUH, the IPAD can connect to the wifi, but the MACBOOKAIR can not.

Also, at SPUH, they have blocked email.

Also, at RWJUH, they have an “entertaining” wifi implementation by HP (which I’d be embarrassed to have my brand associated with) which requires some mickey mouse authentication (that’s what trips up the IPAD) and disconnects randomly. (In the process of which causes both FIREFOX36, GOOGLECHROME, and SAFARI to lose their place in the browser session. (ARGH!)

And, of course, in the ultimate insult to the mundane User, there’s no way to bring these to anyone’s attention. (Argh!)

So why do they bother? An “accomplishment” on someone’s annual appraisal?

Doesn’t inspire confidence in the hospital’s brand.

(My personal test is how clean are the rest rooms — although you can not rest there? Both hospitals seem to do well by that standard.)

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