Nekochan Net

Not complaining, just cross-checking my instruments : has nekochan been noticeably slower for the past week or so ? If it is a worldwide situation I'll just let it go, otherwise something is off with our building, our ISP, or the gfw.

It seems normal to me. I'm accessing it when everyone in the US is asleep, though

ShadeOfBlue wrote: It seems normal to me. I'm accessing it when everyone in the US is asleep, though

On a real busy day that'd account for maybe a dozen connections......

Fine here during normal Pacific US business hours.

^ Oh great. An hour on the phone with some country girl at China Unicom, followed by "Did you reboot your router ? Did you reinstall Windows ? What browser are you using ?"

Then an hour later some foo calls up to ask "how was the service ? Very good, right ?" and the Assistant is too polite to tell them they suck, so they go off with another happy face to put in their record book while our connection is still awful.

Maybe I'll just skip it

Thanks for the instrument check, senores.

It's probably just the monkeys on your end screening you as you pass over the Great Firewall of China.

I blame our new member, NSA_XKeyscore [Bot], for repeatedly doing a traceroute on every IP address that accesses the forum...

vishnu wrote: I blame our new member, NSA_XKeyscore [Bot], for repeatedly doing a traceroute on every IP address that accesses the forum...

Ha ! Kind of a funny but typical development on that ... it's been bad and getting worse but I had other fish to fry. However, about three days ago things got really bad and almost everywhere I tried to go, I couldn't. 70% packet loss on pings and so on. Amazingly, the China Home Shopping Channel was fine ... that's probably the only place they test against. If they even do that ... So we called "tech support" and got the usual runaround except this time I insisted they come here to check their wiring or whatever. Finally got a grudging okay okay, tomorrow at three o'clock someone will be there.

Tomorrow at two thirty, we had this tremendous thunder and lightning storm. Then it started to rain like hell and the wind picked up to about 230 miles an hour. Then I saw snowflakes mixed in with the rain ! It's August ! Yesterday it was 102* ! It's them radio waves, mucking with the air.

Amazingly, at three-ten, all those addresses I was having problems with started working fine. Decent ping speeds (for here) and 0% packet loss. At three-twenty the ISP called and asked if they could come next day because of the storm. We said "sure !"

This same thing used to happen to me all the time with Pac Bell. The wanside connection would go to crap. Call them, absolutely nothing wrong on their end ! Must be you ! Reboot your router ! Reinstall Windows ! Reload the graphics driver ! Defragment your hard drive !

So you'd lie and tell them "Okay, I'm rebooting my router !" while you stood there with your arms folded, fifty feet away from the router with 9 months, three weeks and 27 hours uptime on it. And within a remarkably short period of time the wan was once again operational.

Yeah, must have been my router, Thank you !

ISP's everywhere suck.

ISP's do suck, for example I admin a web account with Lunarpages for a nonprofit that tries to place released felons in jobs with established companies. Lunarpages has a policy of creating one username per account, but somehow in this case they created two, and when they noticed they couldn't figure out how that could have happened and their solution was to soundlessly terminate the account! No offer to refund the remaining year of hosting that I had already paid for; nothing! F-ing morons...

vishnu wrote: I admin a web account with Lunarpages for a nonprofit that tries to place released felons in jobs with established companies.

You try to rehabilitate investment bankers ? Cool !

Oh wait ! What was I thinking ! If you work on Wall Street and steal a billion dollars from old ladies, you are a job creator ! If you're black and smoke a joint, you are a menace to society and a felon !

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-h ... 850.column

Let's see, Friday at hakimoto's in Kabul:

Morning - DSL line won't synchronize
Lunch - DSL line still won't synchronize, it's Friday, everyone's off, plus it's Ramadan, even if someone was working they'd be braindead from fasting in this heat by now
Afternoon - Occasional synchronization
Evening - DSL line finally synchronizes, PPP connection comes up, one minute later the Chinese hack attacks (hamei?) start in one-minute intervals. DNS server can't be reached. No internet connection. Hm... let's go outside and play with the dogs, who needs internet anyway?

My ISP does not suck. Cheap, reliable, fast service. All I lack is native IPv6.

Hakimoto wrote: ... one minute later the Chinese hack attacks (hamei?) start in one-minute intervals.

Was that you ? Sorry I was just looking for some good booby pictures ...

duck wrote: My ISP does not suck. Cheap, reliable, fast service. All I lack is native IPv6.

I hate you. I bet you live in one a them rotten lousy socialist countries where they regulate the utilities

Hakimoto wrote: one minute later the Chinese hack attacks (hamei?) start in one-minute intervals.

What firewall are you using? The "drop" feature in iptables is really nice for shunting off those kinds of attacks...

i only had speed issues once this year. otherwise always fine

vishnu wrote: What firewall are you using? The "drop" feature in iptables is really nice for shunting off those kinds of attacks...

iptables. that's what that little box of crap is using that brings the internet thingie to my home!

i run extra firewalls behind it.

it's horrible.

i gotta talk to the russians today about getting a link from them. oops. did i say that now?

Hakimoto wrote: i gotta talk to the russians today about getting a link from them.

Hey ! better be careful ! The last guy who did that ended up on Rumsfeld's enemies list, ended up getting his country invaded.

Oh wait .... you guys always win when that happens

actually we already have that "kind of link" here at work, they're installing the one for at home today. not cheap, but works sweet and at least "those guys" know what they're doing. go anywhere else in Afghanistan and ask for FQrDNS and so forth and you're met with that "ooooh... did you see that donkey crossing the street" look. but, of course, they're all friggin' experts...

Interesting, from the Afghanistan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology:

Well, vishnu, I don't know where they get their numbers from but most people here live on less than 100 $ a month, so 2.4 M internet users? I doubt it. Then again "they" are always so proud to say that they sent 6 million kids to school since 2001. What everyone forgets is that this means that 8 million other children are still receiving no schooling.

What can I say... home sweet home.

Anyway, hakimoto has the "russian" link at home now.

And a LANCOM Systems "DSL/I-1611 Office" old but trusted German-made kick-ass router as well.