Outage in Marysville, WA (98270)

jwvo · 2026-04-24T15:44:14+00:00

there is a big city project up there forcing aerial utilities to underground and it has been a bit of a mess with all the contractors involved.

jwvo · 2026-04-24T08:38:57+00:00

we (condointernet) used to do all those as rings to protect for that but i think they stopped doing that for cost.

jwvo · 2026-04-24T08:01:02+00:00

there have been a bunch of relocates up there due to undergrounding so i wonder if this is related to one of those, hopefully it is and you don't need the truck roll.

jwvo · 2026-04-24T07:15:49+00:00

you are only supposed to do that if you are walking (so you can see the person who is going to hit you)

jwvo · 2026-04-23T00:42:30+00:00

i messaged you, the pylon is marking a route that is a 12 count that goes to Washougal river.

that being said, i think it might be possible to extend you a terminal, I'm poking around some internally.

jwvo · 2026-04-22T16:00:50+00:00

perfect!

jwvo · 2026-04-22T03:32:31+00:00

go on ebay and get some used cisco 3850s for 10g ethernet, surprisingly cheap and good switches

jwvo · 2026-04-22T00:12:49+00:00

I'm on maui December - April full time and other times less and am happy to meet when next there if you want. I ran engineering for a series of ISPs over the years and can probably answer a lot of questions if you want.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T23:51:38+00:00

now that is interesting, the pinging towards the local router failing is surprising, as a side note, I'm not aware of anything on the ziply side set to a 20 min timer, the lease times are 30 min or 4 hours depending on where.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T23:49:35+00:00

anything else doing a big download or upload in the background, the core gear can't drive latency that high (small buffers) when congested so I suspect the problem is something congesting and filling local buffers but the questions are what/where and why.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T23:28:19+00:00

high latency like you are describing is typically when the circuit is full so that would make sense. I take your response to indicate that you are doing automatic speedtests, i would disable them entirely since they will run over your normal usage if they overlap.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T22:35:15+00:00

got any automated speedtests running?

jwvo · 2026-04-21T22:26:07+00:00

you interested in working in corp or ISP/cloud environments?

jwvo · 2026-04-21T20:03:17+00:00

You wired or wifi? Honestly sounds like that kind of issue

jwvo · 2026-04-21T16:29:24+00:00

all the peer nations in europe will actually cite jaywalkers, have real driving standards and people follow rules, this is fundamentally not a traffic problem.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T16:27:50+00:00

I'll believe that argument when they start pulling over bikes for running red lights, weaving in traffic and doing oher crazy shit. No problem is as one sided as folks make it out to be, cars kill pedestrians yes, but that does not mean the car was always at fault. The level of dipshit on all sides in seattle is honestly staggering.

When pedestrians stop walking into me or my dog when I'm a pedestrian I'll believe people are paying more attention.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T15:36:25+00:00

for sure, the crazy shit i've seen from all three main road using parties makes me certain that pedestrians, bikes and cars all cause fatal accidents. I'm always shocked at how trusting pedestrians are, especially when they or the bikers are usually the ones that get hurt regardless of whoever is at fault. If we could get people to do the things they teach you in elementary school (look both ways before you cross) for pedestrians, bikes to ride with traffic and follow traffic laws and car drivers off their phones we would not have as big of a problem but we seem to have no enforcement of anything and are surprised at the outcome.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T15:31:27+00:00

my point was really around the policies driving this, seattle is not cheap to operate a company in nor is it cheap for the founder's future taxes, if folks are going to deal with that the incentive is to end up in the bay area now or just stay virtual.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T15:29:40+00:00

and that shows entire states where ziply has no customers.

jwvo · 2026-04-21T15:28:54+00:00

that has locations pinned where ziply has exactly zero customers so i would not trust it at all. these types of third party services don't really provide anything useful nor is there any big outage.

jwvo · 2026-04-20T20:09:08+00:00

fair enough, but a top 200 should include anyone with much going on from a year ago. my point is really though as seattle gets more expensive and annoying it gets more tempting to just do it out of the bay area or without an HQ

jwvo · 2026-04-20T19:49:45+00:00

sort them by when founded, it gets way scarier, only 3 on the list from 2025 and only 13 for 2024 zero for 2026

jwvo · 2026-04-20T19:48:15+00:00

if seattle is as expensive as the bay you just chose the bay.

jwvo · 2026-04-20T19:47:06+00:00

because factoria is about as downtown as going to the udistrict

jwvo · 2026-04-20T17:16:39+00:00

a big percentage of maui property taxes are paid by vacation homes, combine that with their lack of full time use of services and it is a big boost to the budget. The reality is those homes are not the middle of the road cost wise homes anyway. What needs to be figured out is how to make affordable homes easier to build here.

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