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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/25
Find out how good the YouTube experience is with your Internet Provider using the Google Video Quality Report.
Source: Google Video Quality Report
Kissimmee hotel internet: not so good (:
PING 55 msDOWNLOAD 0.81 MbpsUPLOAD 2.91 Mbps
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/05
Not sure what happened, but my log appeared to be full of these messages:
Jun 5 12:46:56 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:02 kernel: printk: 61 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:02 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:06 kernel: printk: 132 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:06 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:11 kernel: printk: 544 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:11 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:17 kernel: printk: 163 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:17 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:21 kernel: printk: 115 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:21 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:26 kernel: printk: 275 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:26 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:31 kernel: printk: 644 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:31 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:36 kernel: printk: 866 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:36 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:41 kernel: printk: 750 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:41 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:46 kernel: printk: 665 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:46 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:51 kernel: printk: 766 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:51 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:56 kernel: printk: 625 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:56 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:48:01 kernel: printk: 782 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:48:01 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0
Note sure what caused it, but others have had it in the past as well.
Other symptoms:
I thought they were caused because of me experimenting with a Fonera 2100A -> TomadoUSB experiment, especially since my FON access point was limited to 1 megabit.
But as soon as other users started to use the LAN, I got speed complaints about the slowness.
I’ve been running the ASUS RT-N66U in Firmware Version 3.0.0.4.260 with Operation Mode:Wireless router for quite a while now, but I also noticed that it had rebooted itself recently, as the was Uptime 0 days 20 hours when I started digging in the log.
The worst I got:
| Ping (milliseconds) | Down (megabit) | Up (megabit) | WiFi connection to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ASUS RT-N66U: 2.4 Ghz |
Time for a Reboot to see if it gets any better.
After a reboot the situation turned to normal:
| Ping (milliseconds) | Down (megabit) | Up (megabit) | WiFi connection to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 90 | 10 | ASUS RT-N66U: 2.4 Ghz |
| 17 | 9 | 8 | Fonera: MyPlace |
| 17 | 3 | 1 | Fonera: FON_AP |
| 15 | 2 | 0.6 | Wireless-N 3G Router |
| 15 | 1.5 | 0.7 | RT N66U TomatoUSB 2.4 Ghz |
–jeroen
via: ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U – General Log.
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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/19
The direct UPC Speedtest link does not load all the fuzz the normal UCP speedtest page has.
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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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/10
Highspeed internet at KOMED is quite a different experience from Swisscom hotel internet at the NH Köln hotel yesterday:
When trying to find my way towards the KOMED conference rooms, I had a weird experience: rooms 1..5 (called RAUM EINZ, ZWEI, DREI, VIER und FÜNF in German), you could see room 1, 2, 4 and 5 from the ground floor as they were marked with large friendly letters on the same wall as their doors, very well visible from the ground floor.
Not so with room 3 (where I had to be): that marking was on the wall 90 degrees off the door, not visible from the floor. Actually, it was only visible when you were actually standing next to the door. From the ground floor, the door looks like a fire door continuing the curved corridor in front of rooms 1 and 2.
Someone should put “RAUM DREI” above the door to Room 3 there.
Back to the internet at KOMED: the speed is a pleasant experience compared to what Swisscom provided yesterday.This was the attained speed:
–jeroen
Via: [Wayback] UPC Speedtest.
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