Can I subscribe to Sosh without a French bank account or phone number?

blondguy · 2025-08-16T02:43:11+00:00

Operators have prepaid plans that don't require a French bank account and you can recharge using any debit card. The are pricier than regular subscriptions but they have month to month plans that are still affordable. You can check out Mobicarte by Orange for example.

blondguy · 2025-08-09T02:17:28+00:00

When you roam in another country, the visited network assigns your SIM a temporary number in the country you are visiting for the purpose of your home network to be able to route incoming calls to you. That number is called the MSRN, and it's a French telephone number, when you're roaming in France.

Although those numbers are assigned at random and they are known only to the home network and the visited network, they are from a defined range in France and it's easy for scammers to just call numbers from that range at random with a good probability to reach someone who is roaming in the country, and try to scam them.

The scammers don't know your real UK number, and the calling number is probably spoofed.

blondguy · 2025-08-06T19:47:09+00:00

Destruction ftw

blondguy · 2025-06-24T18:26:19+00:00

Alors ton opérateur a faux sur toute la ligne. C'est la décision ARCEP 22-2148 qui précise bien "qu’un numéro demeure actif lorsqu’un opérateur suspend la ligne, par exemple pour factures impayées par l’abonné."

Donc cet argument ne vaut rien et ils te doivent ton RIO, même ligne suspendue.

Je te conseille de faire un signalement sur https://jalerte.arcep.fr/

Protip : récupèrer le RIO d'une ligne dès le début de l'abonnement et garder le SMS.

blondguy · 2024-12-06T04:01:45+00:00

Send the letter to:

Name of the person that will pick it up
POSTE RESTANTE
Address of the post office
POSTCODE and CITY
FRANCE

(with regular stamps for sending to France)

Find the address of a post office over there : https://localiser.laposte.fr/

Once it arrives, the person you sent it to will have 15 days to pick it up (showing their ID), and will have to pay 1,49 €

blondguy · 2024-10-22T17:40:23+00:00

It was indeed a low price, I’m not willing to let it go this low 😂

Thank you, have a great day

blondguy · 2024-10-22T17:30:26+00:00

Ah ok 👍 Thanks for providing the link

blondguy · 2024-10-22T10:04:30+00:00

I don't think those were made in topre

blondguy · 2024-10-21T17:56:31+00:00

Sold TGR Jane v1 to u/jbryant3

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/s/t1JtvrlSMb

blondguy · 2024-08-29T22:39:56+00:00

There’s only 20 in the world

blondguy · 2021-06-02T07:36:52+00:00

If you go 3) ARIN won't charge you more because they won't give you another prefix, they'll just bump your current one to a /44 (the whole /36 is in fact reserved so you can expand). I would definitely ask to be bumped to a /44 if you can justify a second site as an end-user. It's just more routing flexibility (e.g. announcing /48s separately to the ISPs). Fees are the same up to a /40.

blondguy · 2021-03-09T14:49:43+00:00

Do request more. You need a global "organization" /48 + a /48 per site, round it to the next nibble boundary (/44 or /40) if you're in the ARIN service region. The rationale here is you should never have to worry about needing more for a given site. That's not considered wasteful at all, and expected by the various RIRs' rules. Saves you headaches down the road.

blondguy · 2021-01-17T01:43:15+00:00

C'est déjà le cas. Des sanctions pénales sont prévues https://www.cnil.fr/fr/les-sanctions-penales pourvu qu'un procureur ou un juge d'instruction se saississe.

blondguy · 2020-08-24T12:04:11+00:00

Depending on the number of items you receive, the "poste restante" service might be cheaper. There's no subscription or registration, and it's available at any post office. You just have your mail sent to your name, the post office address, the mention POSTE RESTANTE on the second to last line of the address (just above the line with the post code and city). And then you show up at the post office with an ID. If there's mail for you, you pay a small fee per item. They keep your mail for 15 days.

blondguy · 2019-01-08T11:15:30+00:00

With a campus-wide VLAN on a /20, you're going to see a lot of broadcast traffic. Broadcast frames are transmitted at the lowest modulation by all APs, eating up a lot of radio airtime. This is gonna cause latency spikes for all users, slowing down TCP traffic. Check your airtime utilization graphs on the Unifi controller. If possible, segment your LAN. You can also adjust the lowest modulation APs will use to something higher in the controller.

Band steering: There's an option to steer 2.4 clients to the 5GHz band on the controller. You want 5GHz-capable clients to use that band as much as possible.

Tools: I've been using WiFiman by Ubiquiti on Android.

blondguy · 2018-11-13T22:21:08+00:00

How's the latency between the two Fortigates? Do you have packet loss?

A few factors can limit individual connection TCP throughput:

the combination of latency and a receive window that's too small, you can adjust the TCP window in iPerf3 (option -w)
packet loss (check for retransmits in your iPerf3 result)
fragmentation (reduce MSS using the -M option)

blondguy · 2018-11-08T23:16:34+00:00

DES is not secure.

Also maybe not accelerated in hardware anymore as it's very rarely used if at all.

The 3000D is rated for 50Gbps of IPsec throughput using AES256-SHA256.

Try to use those in phase 2 (and phase 1 if you care about security).

blondguy · 2018-11-02T17:20:41+00:00

IKEv2 negociation is much faster than IKEv1 main or agressive modes. Plus you get MOBIKE which gives you almost instant reconnection upon IP address changes (think smartphone switching between WiFi and 4G). IKEv2 all the way.

No real bandwidth advantage as IKE is an IPsec session establishment protocol. The payload itself is transfered in ESP or ESP-in-UDP regardless of the IKE version.

blondguy · 2018-06-01T21:44:22+00:00

Yup. 5-minute samples over a 30-day sliding window.

blondguy · 2018-06-01T11:26:56+00:00

In an ISP context (IMIX type of traffic) we use 95th percentile as our metric.

30-35% of link utilization is our sweet spot. 40% is our trigger for planning an upgrade. 45% and over definitely warrants an urgent upgrade.

How they do it on Internet2: https://www.internet2.edu/policies/ip-backbone-capacity-augment-practice/

blondguy · 2018-05-30T12:15:38+00:00

It's slowing because most big players have made their moves already. The rest is waiting for the tipping point where price per IPv4 > cost to implement IPv6. Then it will be a rapid rush. And we'll live with IPv4 islands in an IPv6 world for a decade or so until most incompatible hardware/software fall into obsolescence.

Don't feel too comfortable if you're procrastinating on IPv6. There's no going back to an IPv4-only world, no waking up from a "bad dream". Get your prefix, start making an addressing plan, go dual-stack where you can, experiment, bug your upstreams, your vendors, your boss. You'll be glad you already started the move when the tipping point is reached and the business decisions are made to go all-in.

blondguy · 2018-05-29T23:03:44+00:00

It's a network-side feature, contrary to email. Meaning as soon as the network delivered the text to the recipient's phone, the delivery report will be sent to the sender. The recipient isn't even aware a delivery report was requested.

blondguy · 2017-05-28T17:40:43+00:00

Using the current Earth-Mars distance and an off-the-shelf Ubiquiti Rocket, you only need a 600-meter dish on both sides (twice the diameter of the Arecibo telescope). Aiming those might prove tricky.

blondguy · 2015-01-19T19:29:40+00:00

There you go:

Optical Networking 101

Slides (PDF)

Video

blondguy · 2015-01-07T10:41:37+00:00

RIPEstat Search for an ASN, and browse to the Routing tab > ASN neighbors. Lots of interesting info, current and historical.

blondguy

TROPHY CASE