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Comment Re:+1 for this Post (Score 1) 427

by cthulhu11 (#47645259) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series?
Maybe their "carrier-class" gear is better than the WAP from them I had and tossed out in disgust. Dropped connections frequently, the goofy management application was no more robust and had to be reinstalled with every new firmware version, which was inevitably a beta as they never seemed to offer real releases. When the thing's resets became more common and it died entirely, I engaged warranty service, and it took something like two months for them to send me a replacement, because -- get this -- they didn't have any! I gave up and bought an ASUS that's been working well, though the coverage pattern is bizarre.

Comment Re:Logitech Skype device (Score 1) 194

by cthulhu11 (#47600599) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home?
And what happens when someone changes the input on the TV connected to the thing? It'll sit there "broken" indefinitely. How many times have you walked into a coffee shop or even someone's home and found their big expensive TV stuck on the wrong zoom mode, then come back a year later and found it unchanged? Oh and what happens when Samsung buys that product and kills it? Like my Boxee Box?

Comment Re:Yes! Copyright terrorism must be stopped! (Score 1) 207

Yes, it is unfortunate that Napster did not succeed in staunching Metallica's creative death-spiral. But In this case, here we have Lionsgate mostly creating advertising. It's a second sequel to a movie nobody heard about in the first place. If 180k downloads have happened, that's probably double the number who would have seen it theatrically. "Near DVD quality" is hardly impressive in 2014 and they worked hard to find six obscure sites. I'm not getting into the copyright argument on either side here, but I think it likely that this is more about publicity for a bomb of a movie than the ostensible rights.

Comment Re:Common? (Score 1) 348

For years I worked for a global company - almost all servers run by a certain BU are on public addresses with little or no ACL / firewall protection. I periodically tried to get at least ACL's set up, but the team responsible for adding those to the router configs couldn't be bothered, no matter how clear I was about our exposure. I had to disable network IPMI on servers to remove that intrusion vector. After a number of years of trying I'd started to get some traction on setting up a private management network for the netmgmt and other embedded interfaces, but again disinterest from those in the deployment path stalled implementation. I'm astounded that we never got pwned in a serious way.

Comment Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN (Score 1) 398

Verizon is choosing not to upgrade it's peering points with Level-3 because they are no longer evenly sharing traffic up/down as all free peering arrangements have ALWAYS required, yet Level-3 doesn't want to pay for the imbalance, and Netflix doesn't want to shift some of their Verizon traffic to a different transit provider than Level-3.

That's been clear to me for some time, but so few seem to get it.

Considering the huge imbalance in download and upload speeds, how exactly is anybody supposed to peer with Verizon?

Not everyone offers such imbalance traffic.

Verizon knowingly set up a situation in which it is impossible for any peer to be on traffic parity with Verizon. Furthermore, traffic parity is almost impossible from a business perspective. Verizon and the last-mile providers have consumers and creators at one end, everyone else has pretty much only creators. The only way for corps like Level 3 to achieve traffic parity is to offer last-mile services,

No, they could pay Verizon for transit, as is the customary practice, rather than expecting Verizon to give them service for free, because you know all the other links in Verizon's networks cost $0/month and Juniper/Cisco give them M20's and 9922's for free.

Comment Re:And government has a responsibility too. (Score 1) 390

by cthulhu11 (#47503265) Attached to: Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa
An NSP can only control bandwidth between themselves and their customers. Bandwidth on other people's networks and from other people's servers are not under their control. The problem there is widespread ignorance of how the net works. As for TFA, Verizon doesn't want to do L3's and Netflix's work for free, how is that outrageous? If L3 wants VZN to carry substantially asymmetrical traffic, they need only enter into a transit agreement. A couple of XE cards are beans compared to that.

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