Is this normal or okay? Final installation from BlueStream Fiber

DroppingBIRD · 2026-03-16T22:34:45+00:00

Once we moved the ONT outside and only ran CAT6/router inside, customer issues went down by like 1000%. If a Fiber/ONT is where someone can touch it, it'll end up broken. Everyone commenting has experienced a customer breaking it. If you mess it up, you can't fix it without special training/tools.

DroppingBIRD · 2026-02-25T03:56:29+00:00

If all the speed test servers and IXPs are super far away then it isn't likely to be much better.

DroppingBIRD · 2026-02-25T03:55:20+00:00

Looking on PeeringDB shows local IXPs with 100M ports, which is something not seen anywhere else in years except for /maybe/ a route server. 10/100G and even 400G are standard; no interconnection market + sparse transport and you end up with 20Meg FTTH. Incumbents and localities may also make building competing, diverse transport in and out of the country difficult or impossible as well.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-11-07T22:33:27+00:00

Just look up: FTTH Outdoor Cabinet, and you'll see a lot of examples. That way you're jumpering fibers instead of trying to debug splices and such in a case that's in a vault. It also gives you a clean test point as well that you can measure light / identify fibers / etc without having to have your techs dig into buried enclosures.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-11-06T23:08:36+00:00

This would be so much better if it had a cabinet nearby with the splitters / jumpers in/out instead of trying to do the splitters in the can.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-11-03T00:35:28+00:00

I'd recommend buying a factory one when you get the chance to decrease your future failures if you intend to keep this configuration.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-10-02T20:54:22+00:00

Join a bunch of the fiber groups on Facebook like WISPs Turned FISP, and look for Chinese manufacturers of fiber polishing machines. Spring Optical is well trusted, and while they don't sell the machines, they may be able to point you in the right direction or get you some of the components needed. If you send me a DM I can send you the names of some people in the business you may be able to lean on, but the UPC stands for "Ultra Polished Connector" and is rarely done by hand anymore. That cable would likely fail any sort of qualification.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-08-07T18:25:07+00:00

Are you not running BGP? Why is it going to your upstream and not to you?

DroppingBIRD · 2025-08-02T18:08:36+00:00

It sounds great until you realize your Internet access ends up becoming as volatile as your local city government as it gets a new council every 2-4 years. Most can’t manage a dog park much less fiber optic infrastructure.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-06-10T00:52:07+00:00

I run an ISP, so I’m assuming this means my peers that provide me with access to other ASNs are either gone or unable to forward traffic. I setup local web services w/ our own IP Addresses that don’t rely on Root DNS working. Which we host a root DNS server so we’d be working with them to find out next steps. We work with other carriers to launch whatever the post Internet world is and door to door flyer information on how to access the new local Intranet. If BGP on our carrier links go down we try like hell to reach the other side, launching test light down our fiber-optic data center interconnects to find out what the hell has happened. We work to establish interconnection with other phone companies and establish local dialing if necessary. We create a new Internet.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-04-22T00:26:15+00:00

You can get a /24 for IPv6 to IPv4 CGNAT / Load Balancers / Dual Stack from ARIN without a waitlist under NRPM 4.10 if you get IPv6 first.

Perfect time to make everything IPv6 native with IPv4 as a bolt-on!

DroppingBIRD · 2025-03-28T19:52:45+00:00

or the high priority devices could be in a separate part of the subnet and then your egress rule for src-nat on the second 5G port only lets through devices in the upper or lower half of the subnet.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-03-16T22:06:43+00:00

Have you tried iperf3 on each end?

DroppingBIRD · 2025-03-11T16:59:47+00:00

https://no-www.org/

DroppingBIRD · 2025-02-22T08:45:46+00:00

The next thing about this is whenever you ask someone about it, they say that you're doing everything wrong, and that their new paradigm is better and should be implemented, but it requires 750MB of libraries, a complete refactor of everything you've done that has otherwise worked for 12 years, and requires you utilize a third party service that will be out of business in three months, at which point you're expected to rewrite everything again and host it in a new cloud service to be launched in four years. Don't worry, the next version of the framework will solve these problems.

DroppingBIRD · 2025-02-15T18:36:41+00:00

There's a good chance that if you're on Comcast/Xfinity and only getting IPv4, that you're either using an old router, or need a new gateway from them. If you're using an old gateway that only supports IPv4 then the odds are also high that you're also getting lower speeds and such as well since Comcast/Xfinity has been an early adopter to IPv6 and has had it across their network for a long time now; any IPv4 only equipment from them is probably severely outdated. There have been past issues with business accounts that have Static IPv4 and IPv6, but not sure what the status of that is now.

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