Re: PfSense + ubiquity

[Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss]

They are welcome to, but node splits are a 6 month minimum last I checked
 - granted we're getting faster with how many we're doing. In the next 5
years, most cable operators will implement some sort of aggressive node
splitting to keep up with demand. Current employer not excluded.

I've had CLink on fiber - they're upstream nodes are a little more
saturated, but they do peer locally in the valley. Current employer does
have peering with FAANG and a couple other heavy hitters in the valley (not
any proprietary information here, any trace route from the valley to those
sites will show it terminating in 2 or 3 hops), but if I recall correctly
70% of CLink traffic hits their DCs in Phoenix. Granted it's all best
effort past that, but if you don't have a heavily saturated node, you'll do
all right. GPON fiber is GPON fiber, regardless of Service Provider. It's
just a question of how many other subscribers are on your PON port and how
big the upstream links are.

- Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.sc...@gmail.com  


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 4:04 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> This last bit is interesting. I have Cox Fiber (no data cap for Gigablast
> fiber yet) and Century Link just announced a competing service in my area.
> For about half the cost. For the same Gigabit Fiber (or 940mbps as they are
> calling it).
>
> Anyone with any experience with them on residential fiber?
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:59 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> So Cox subs can reach out to you when we're having saturation issues?  :)
>>
>> Having been around for the beginnings of cable modem tech at @home
>> networks in the 90's dealing with almost every big MSO (Cox, Comcast, ATT,
>> Intermedia, etc), I like to talk about the tech as a bit proud where it's
>> gone.  I liked Cox as one of the last decent hold-outs for things like
>> keeping Usenet around longer than they should, not killing customers for
>> mpaa/riaa abuse complaints, and keeping data caps off when the industry was
>> moving in that direction, so I think they're better than the rest, but
>> eventually they hopped on the money train with data caps too.  And now
>> they're paying for their pro-pirate stance as well with lawsuits against
>> them winning
>> ,
>> probably using that extra cap revenue to pay the trolls.
>>
>> Would I go back?  Not as long as they have data caps, and someone else
>> around me doesn't, but yes - much better network.  I don't like random
>> overages in my bill, I get that enough with power.  If I thought the covid
>> restrictions to remove caps would hold, I'd probably switch back now, but
>> I'm sure they'll find a reason to reimplement them asap as that's lost
>> revenue on your rsu's.
>>
>> It's always good to hear from other docsis speakers, welcome back!
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 6:54 PM Thomas Scott 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Day job is for a certain ISP HQ in Atlanta that supplies internet for a
>>> lot of the valley - I work in Network Operations first in Phoenix and now
>>> in Atlanta, and was surprised to see so much of what I talk about everyday
>>> in PLUG!
>>>
>>> CLink trying to play FTTN as FTTH, nothing new there. I live in a
>>> neighborhood outside of Atlanta that had some AT brownfield development
>>> for FTTH, and I've had no regrets (300 up 300 down!) Cox is moving towards
>>> "10G" with DOCSIS 4.0 and they are getting fiber closer to the home with
>>> their node splits. If you find that you all off a sudden have an extra hop
>>> in your path, that might be the seen you've been on one of those nodes that
>>> have been lit and split. The amount of bandwidth going up and down will go
>>> up dramatically.
>>>
>>> @Michael - yeah I don't think the caps are going anywhere, the industry
>>> as a whole (driven by big red) has moved that direction, but I think you'll
>>> see speeds and caps rise as N+0 goes to full duplex DOCSIS. I do know
>>> they've been relaxed with the COVID-19 FCC initiatives, but how long that
>>> lasts, I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> @Mac - the cox supplied modems are almost all going to "Panoramic Wi-Fi"
>>> and the number of holes found in DOCSIS devices is... disturbing to say the
>>> least. It was designed to be operated on a shared RF medium, and like other
>>> "trusting" protocols (i.e. BGP) has a lot of issues. The more virtualized
>>> it becomes, I think we'll see more of those go away - the smaller the
>>> broadcast domains, and the smaller the first upstream router, the better
>>> those will be able to be maintained and automated. Looking at the road
>>> maps, it will be interesting what comes next.
>>>
>>> - Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.sc...@gmail.com  
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:54 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
 

Re: port on filezilla

[Michael via PLUG-discuss]

Nevermind I figured out how to do it with nomachine.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:23 PM Michael  wrote:
>
> I want to transfer some directories from my old computer to the NUC. I
> wanted to do it with nomachine but nomachine won't transfer
> directories. So I open filezilla and I don't know what to do.
> This is what filezilla says:
>
> Status: Waiting to retry...
> Status: Connecting to 10.0.0.5:21...
> Status: Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection
> refused by server".
> Error: Could not connect to server
>
> The only thing I can think of is the port. I left it blank because I
> was unsure of what to put.
> --
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port on filezilla

[Michael via PLUG-discuss]

I want to transfer some directories from my old computer to the NUC. I
wanted to do it with nomachine but nomachine won't transfer
directories. So I open filezilla and I don't know what to do.
This is what filezilla says:

Status: Waiting to retry...
Status: Connecting to 10.0.0.5:21...
Status: Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection
refused by server".
Error: Could not connect to server

The only thing I can think of is the port. I left it blank because I
was unsure of what to put.
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May topics

[der.hans via PLUG-discuss]

moin moin,

sorry for the delayed announcement for this month. My fault. We'll have
full announcement later today.

Tomorrow we'll have a roundtable discussion on NextCloud led by SCaLE's
NextCloud BoF organizer and an introduction to Big Blue Button.

The meeting will be using Big Blue Button, details will be in the full
announcement.

ciao,

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Re: Which audio/video formats are best and why?

[Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss]

Try VLC media player. It will just about play anything and can even convert 
formats.

Btw, the oldest is still the best. I convert everything I ever get to MP4 video 
with AAC 5.1 surround sound with stereo backward compatibility. This allows me 
to chrome cast it, or play on any device capable of handling it (which is 
virtually any device currently on the market). I even have a couple of shell 
scripts for converting various other types to MP4 on my Mac. Also, with the 
right BPS settings for video and Audio, you can take a rather large file and 
compress it with little loss.

Anyway, check out VLC media player and see what you think.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Media conversion Dept.

> On May 12, 2020, at 6:36 PM, Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss 
>  wrote:
> 
> Please help ...
> 
> After searching the 'net for information about
> which audio and video formats are best, and why,
> I am more confused than ever.
> 
> On my system, I came across some old audio files with
> the file-name suffix .mid but I could not get those
> files to play with vlc, smplayer, amarok, or audacity.
> 
> So, I went to several online file conversion sites
> trying to find one that would work best to do some
> file conversions, and that confused the subject further.
> 
> So, I'm hoping that the PLUG brain trust can provide
> better information about this.
> 
> The only file conversion site that I found that could
> deal with the .mid files was: www.zamzar.com
> 
> When I converted one of my files, music.mid to mp3,
> the file played fine, but it increased the file size
> from 6329 to 3163566, which seemed weird? Why so?
> 
> --6329 Apr 12  2003 music.mid
> ---3163566 May 11 19:41 music.mp3
> ---3362836 May 12 00:28 music.ogg
> --37962478 May 12 00:29 music.wav
> 
> I also gried to convert the same file to .ogg and to .wav
> with the size results seen above. This makes no sense.
> 
> Why would such a small source file be blown up to such
> huge sizes and all sound the same?
> 
> Similar question about video files:
> 46235648 Jul 18  2018 workshop2.VOB
> 16811516 Jul 18  2018 workshop2.mkv
> 51575152 May 12 00:14 workshop2.mp4
> 
> Which of these three is a preferable format?
> The all seem to look identical (to me) when played.
> Why would the conversion from the original VOB to
> mkv become so much smaller a file size and why
> would the conversion from VOB to mp4 increase the size?
> 
> Hope so someone can help me make sense of this.
> 
> 
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