Re: [GLLUG] Plusnet
On 12/05/2020 20:36, Frank Scott via GLLUG wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:40:21PM +0100, Tim Clarke via GLLUG wrote: I have plusnet fibre 80-mbps and it works fine - although speed is around 70mbps I have a feeling 80 is rarely achieved unless right on top of the cabinet! I have 80-mbps with A and I only get 73mbs. The FTTC cabinet is just by the front gate! Mine is about 150 yards away and I get a sync speed of 76.5 Mbps (*not* mbps which would be dreadful). Bear in mind though that the sync speed which you get has nothing to do with the ISP which you use. Regardless of who provides your back-haul service, the sync speed is dictated by the quality of the wire between you and the cabinet. Switching to a different ISP will make no difference to it, unless you also switch to a different infrastructure (e.g. Virgin). The original query though was about IP address allocations and DNS. That *is* under the control of your chosen ISP. John -- Xronos Scheduler - https://xronos.uk/ All your school's schedule information in one place. Timetable, activities, homework, public events - the lot Live demo at https://schedulerdemo.xronos.uk/ -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Plusnet
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:40:21PM +0100, Tim Clarke via GLLUG wrote: > > I have plusnet fibre 80-mbps and it works fine - although speed is around > 70mbps > I have a feeling 80 is rarely achieved unless right on top of the > cabinet! I have 80-mbps with A and I only get 73mbs. The FTTC cabinet is just by the front gate! > > However, beware it comes with the phone line and their call charges > are pretty awful. I just ue the landline for incoming calls and > my mobile for outgoing (unlimited free!) > > Tim > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > -- > GLLUG mailing list > GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug -- .^. .''`. /V\: ;` : Frank Scott Sutton, London /( )\ `. ''` ^^ ^^ `- -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Link two RAIDs in one LVM?
Hi, And thanks again, I have followed your advice, creating an 8TB mirrored logical volume on my two new drives, i.e. using 1 mirror = 2 copies. On Mon 2020-05-11 13.15.55, Greater London Linux User Group wrote: Hi, What size are the partitions on the old 8TB disks? Is it a single partition for all 8TB ? If you have a separate data from the OS partition: you could "rsync -avpP" the data/image/picture/whatever files over to the new disks on top of LVM. You could handle the OS partition offline. You can then do a final "catch up" rsync of the data in offline mode. Once everything is copied and you have unmounted the old disks, and have everything booting and running nicely on the new disks. You could then wipe the old disks, and redo them with LVM on them. I would allow at least a day or two for the first rsync of 8TB. What do you think of the following procedure? Once I have copied and tested everything, I wipe the old disks and add them to the 8TB LV as copies #2 and #3. After synchronisation, I remove one of the new disks and one of the old ones, wipe them again and then extend or resize the LV to contain two pairs of mirrored 8TB data = 16TB. As each pair would consist of an old disk combined with a new one, would the whole system not be less likely to be destroyed by two disks failing simultaneously? What are the exact command combinations to accomplish this? (vgextend, vgcreate, lvextend, lvresize) signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Plusnet
On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:40:21 BST Tim Clarke via GLLUG wrote: > I have plusnet fibre 80-mbps and it works fine - although speed is > around 70mbps > I have a feeling 80 is rarely achieved unless right on top of the > cabinet! > > However, beware it comes with the phone line and their call charges > are pretty awful. I just ue the landline for incoming calls and > my mobile for outgoing (unlimited free!) > > Tim Yes, I paid the one-off £5 for a static IPv4 address. Mine is capped at 40Mbps down, 10Mbps up, but my modem tells me that the maximum achievable down has varied between about 40Mbps and 90Mbps, highest when the ground is wet, now 72.79Mbps. The cables are old, mostly installed around 1930-1940, and the ducts are badly damaged, so BT are reluctant to touch them. -- Chris Bell Website http://chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
[GLLUG] Plusnet
Oh and plusnet do fixed IP as well -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
[GLLUG] Plusnet
I have plusnet fibre 80-mbps and it works fine - although speed is around 70mbps I have a feeling 80 is rarely achieved unless right on top of the cabinet! However, beware it comes with the phone line and their call charges are pretty awful. I just ue the landline for incoming calls and my mobile for outgoing (unlimited free!) Tim -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Plusnet and BT
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:33:29AM +0100, Greater London Linux UUG wrote: > Don't even *dream* of going with BT. Their customer service is > beyond appalling. I've been struggling with them since February > when my mother died. Just finding a means to communicate with them > and tell them this has proved pretty much impossible. You can't > phone them; you can't e-mail them; they ignore written > communications. Utterly, utterly dreadful. I had similar problems with them 30 years ago: I decided that I no longer needed one of the two phone lines that I had at an office. I wrote to them (on paper) to their registered office in London and just stopped paying the bills that continued to arrive. About a year later the threatened court action - so I just sent a copy of the letter. I don't have time to wade through their beurocrasy, so tell them, & let them soft themselves out. Far too many organisations are almost impossible to talk to these days :-( -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html #include -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Plusnet and BT
Hello, On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:26:11AM +0100, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: > Is this the best that they can manage after so many promises? No it'd all they need to manage for those who will buy the cheapest and lump it. Switch to a decent provider like Andrews or Zen, enjoy static IPv4 and IPv6 netblocks. Life is too short. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > I'd be interested to hear any (even two word) reviews of their sofas… Provides seating.— Andy Davidson -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Link two RAIDs in one LVM?
Hi, On Mon 2020-05-11 22.31.44, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Which filesystem are you using on the old 8TB disk? For example, if it is btrfs, you don't have to copy anything about. btrfs does its own raid 0. You can just add more disks as you need them and btrfs just uses them. Interesting. I did not know about this and just went with the flow during installation and used ext4. signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Plusnet and BT
On 12/05/2020 10:26, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: [snip] I have looked at a new standard BT FTTC connection supplied with a new BT Hub6. It has both a dynamic IPv4 and an IPv6 address, and is issuing standard IPv4 192.168.x.x/24 addresses, plus IPv6 /64 addresses with a TTL of 10 years, although it says that IPv6 DNS is not available. Is this the best that they can manage after so many promises? https://aa.net.uk/ You get what you pay for. Don't even *dream* of going with BT. Their customer service is beyond appalling. I've been struggling with them since February when my mother died. Just finding a means to communicate with them and tell them this has proved pretty much impossible. You can't phone them; you can't e-mail them; they ignore written communications. Utterly, utterly dreadful. John -- Xronos Scheduler - https://xronos.uk/ All your school's schedule information in one place. Timetable, activities, homework, public events - the lot Live demo at https://schedulerdemo.xronos.uk/ -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
[GLLUG] Plusnet and BT
Hello, I have been with Plusnet long enough to know that emails could be downloaded using pop3 from pop3.plus.net, but that failed recently. Their website now says that mail.plus.net should be used, but they had not provided the DNS for that name. They have now provided the same set of eight IPv4 addresses for both pop3.plus.net and mail.plus.net so both are working. I am still waiting for IPv6 to appear, promised "soon" for several years. The recommendation to ISP's from RIPE is that every human on earth could be allocated an IPv6 /48 without problems for about 480 years and without needing to reclaim and re-assign any, although ISP's may wish to restrict some non- commercial users to only a /64 from each allocated /48. I have looked at a new standard BT FTTC connection supplied with a new BT Hub6. It has both a dynamic IPv4 and an IPv6 address, and is issuing standard IPv4 192.168.x.x/24 addresses, plus IPv6 /64 addresses with a TTL of 10 years, although it says that IPv6 DNS is not available. Is this the best that they can manage after so many promises? -- Chris Bell Website http://chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
