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Last week xs4all internet really has shut down and two long term “buddies” suddenly have a completely different life

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/04

For posterity these two tweets from xs4all unixbeheer dudes:

For me it is a strange feeling, but for Cor, Jan-Pieter and some others that also stayed until the very last it is even stranger: after so many years (or decades) at xs4all their life suddenly is very different.

I wish them well and hopefully be able to meet up every now and then.

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The end of an era: after more than 25 years, XS4ALL/AS3265 is leaving AMS-IX

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/30

Via [Wayback/Archive] Nick Bouwhuis on Twitter: “😢 “ (with OCR text below) via [Wayback/Archive] Kirsten Verdel on Twitter: “:(“:

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Jan-Pieter Cornet on Twitter: “@rckjnsn @KarinSpaink @jpluimers @Jan_WdeVries @JeroenFrijters @xs4all @corbosman Zodra je lijn gemigreerd is naar KPN, werken de xs4allnl DNS entries niet meer. Zie punt I3 op …”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/25

[Wayback/Archive] Jan-Pieter Cornet on Twitter: “@rckjnsn @KarinSpaink @jpluimers @Jan_WdeVries @JeroenFrijters @xs4all @corbosman Zodra je lijn gemigreerd is naar KPN, werken de xs4all.nl DNS entries niet meer. Zie punt I3 op …”

met verwijzing naar [Wayback/Archive] Overzicht – XS4ALL:

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xs4all voip with Fritz!Box equipment: do not combine Fritz!Box “With prefix” number formats with xs4all “Block international numbers”: it will block non-international numbers too.

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/22

If you use xs4all VoIP from any Fritz!Box device, then keep the “Telephone Number Format” for “Country code” on “No”, and “Area code” to “None”:

If you have changed these to “With prefix” like I did:

combined with VoIP settings to block international numbers on the right, then when you dial a number outside your area, you will get a friendly voice telling you “this number is blocked”

–jeroen

Posted in Internet, ISP, Power User, Telephony, VoIP, xs4all | Leave a Comment »

KPN vernieuwt abonnementen voor vast en mobiel internet, tv en bellen – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/08

Voor mijn link archief, dit lijkt op de integratie van xs4all:

KPN komt met nieuwe abonnementen met de naam Hussel. Onder die naam zijn zowel vast en mobiel internet als bellen en tv beschikbaar. Ook zijn er losse mobiele abonnementen. Onbeperkte mobiele data is alleen mogelijk in combinatie met vast internet.

[WayBack] KPN vernieuwt abonnementen voor vast en mobiel internet, tv en bellen – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers

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xs4all, vaste IP adressen en reverse DNS

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/09

Voor mijn link archief: [WayBack] KPN legt voornemen om te stoppen met Xs4All voor aan ondernemingsraad – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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XS4ALL Software download site

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14

When you want to download actual known amounts of bytes, then use the [Archive.is] XS4ALL Software download site which has plenty of files in both sizes that are powers of 1024 and powers of 1000, so you can use the units that fits you best:

I usually run commands like these:

traceroute download.xs4all.nl & wget -O /dev/null http://download.xs4all.nl/test/2GiB.bin

traceroute download.xs4all.nl & wget -O /dev/null http://download.xs4all.nl/test/10GiB.bin

The first is for speeds up to ~100 megabit/second, the latter for speeds up to ~1 gigabits/second; wget examples based on [WayBack] linux – How do I request a file but not save it with Wget? – Stack Overflow.

From the xs4all shell servers, you have about 1 gigabit speed. At home it is about 80 gigabit.

Since the download is over a longer period of time, you get a better estimate of average speeds than regular speedtest varieties do.

[ ]100MB.bin               2014-05-28 22:18   95M  
[ ]100MiB.bin              2014-05-28 22:18  100M  
[ ]100mb.bin               2014-05-28 22:18   95M  
[ ]10GB.bin                2014-05-28 22:20  9.3G  
[ ]10GiB.bin               2014-05-28 22:20   10G  
[ ]10MB.bin                2014-05-28 22:19  9.5M  
[ ]10MiB.bin               2014-05-28 22:19   10M  
[ ]10gb.bin                2014-05-28 22:20  9.3G  
[ ]10mb.bin                2014-05-28 22:19  9.5M  
[ ]1GB.bin                 2014-05-28 22:20  954M  
[ ]1GiB.bin                2014-05-28 22:20  1.0G  
[ ]1MB.bin                 2014-05-28 22:19  1.0M  
[ ]1MiB.bin                2014-05-28 22:19  1.0M  
[ ]1gb.bin                 2014-05-28 22:20  954M  
[ ]1mb.bin                 2014-05-28 22:19  1.0M  
[ ]200MB.bin               2016-08-03 13:35  191M  
[ ]200MiB.bin              2016-08-03 13:35  200M  
[ ]2GB.bin                 2014-05-28 22:21  1.9G  
[ ]2GiB.bin                2014-05-28 22:21  2.0G  
[ ]2gb.bin                 2014-05-28 22:21  1.9G  
[ ]500MB.bin               2016-08-03 13:36  477M  
[ ]500MiB.bin              2016-08-03 13:35  500M

–jeroen

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Bye, bye ADSL…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/27

As I got rid of some final hard coded IPv4 stuff, earlier this month I said good-bye to Ziggo cable internet.

Today, the xs4all ADSL line finally got disconnected as well:

My old trusty Fritz!Box 7340 showing ADSL got disconnected for good on 20161217

My old trusty Fritz!Box 7340 showing ADSL got disconnected for good on 20161217

Which means that the years of running an xs4all DSL connection over mxStream, KPN FAST ADSL and xs4all ONLY are over. Oh the days:

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Posted in ADSL, fiber, History, Internet, ISP, KPN, Power User, xs4all, Ziggo/UPC/A2000 | Leave a Comment »

15 years of xs4all internet provider membership

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/15

Today it is the 15th anniversary of my xs4all membership.
Even though (see some history below) xs4all was not my first provider, it has been the provider of choice ever since:

  • Technically very knowledgeable
  • Very stable connection
  • Highly much aware of privacy

Back in December 1998, when xs4all was sold sold to the Dutch Telcom (KPN), lots of people were afraid that xs4all would start scoring less points one ore more of the above points.
They didn’t, and that is the main reason I’m still client with them.

This despite the  fact that I can get faster internet where I live.
My ADSL connection is quite a long distance from the telco DSLAM, so I can’t get a very high ADSL speed.
As some of the ADSL versus distance speed graphs show, your ADSL connection needs to be close to the telco’s DSLAM.
I’m not, so my maximum ADSL1 speed is slightly less than 8 megabit, and my current ADSL2+ speed is less than 16 megabit, so xs4all light is the best I can get.

BTW: If you live in The Netherlands, here you can calculate that distance (which is called “afstand tot de centrale” in Dutch).
I wish they ran the telco cables under the canal to the neighboring village: I’m about 500 meter away from their DSLAM, in stead of the 2700 meters I’m from my own DSLAM.
Oh well :-)

For high speed things, I now also have a cable connection.
Even though they are deregulating that part of the broadband market, currently cable internet is bound to your cable TV provider.
In my case, that is UPC, and their high speed internet is marketed as Fiber Power.
I started with a 60 over 6 megabit service, that they increased to 120 over 10 megabit about a year ago while reducing the price (because they were merging their packages and wanted to increase their competetiveness).

While writing this, I’m still searching for a good dual gigabit WAN router to combine the two connections in one.

Over time, xs4all increased the ADSL bandwidth from a meager 1 megabit over 256 kilobit to 8 megabit over 1 megabit.
They increased mailbox and storage sizes too.
And finally, they were among the first to support IPv6.

So all in all, I’m still very happy for staying with xs4all.

A bit of history

xs4all was not where the internet started for me. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in About, BBS, FidoNet, History, Internet, ISP, Personal, Power User, SpeedTest, xs4all, Ziggo/UPC/A2000 | 18 Comments »

UPC Speedtest – direct link

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/19

The direct UPC Speedtest link does not load all the fuzz the normal UCP speedtest page has.

Some tests I ran

At a client.

My Cable connection.

My ADSL connection.

Note the Cable connection is early in the morning. In the afternoon/evening it is much slower.
The ADSL connection is slower, but more reliable, has IPv6, and XS4ALL is way better at security and privacy than UPC.

–jeroen

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