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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
https://extraip.com/ is natuurlijk ook een optie.
–jeroen
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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
–jeroen
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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
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 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:
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.
xs4all was not where the internet started for me. Read the rest of this entry »
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