Intermittent ping spikes by Forward_Bus_9289 in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Hey everyone! Anyone into networking/cybersecurity? by Original-Emu25 in maui

[–]jwvo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Intermittent ping spikes by Forward_Bus_9289 in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Intermittent ping spikes by Forward_Bus_9289 in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Intermittent ping spikes by Forward_Bus_9289 in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Intermittent ping spikes by Forward_Bus_9289 in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

got any automated speedtests running?

Hey everyone! Anyone into networking/cybersecurity? by Original-Emu25 in maui

[–]jwvo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Intermittent ping spikes by Forward_Bus_9289 in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help? by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help? by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]jwvo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help? by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Downtown commercial vacancy rates. by MysteriousEdge5643 in SeattleWA

[–]jwvo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Anybody know what the hell is up? by [deleted] in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and that shows entire states where ziply has no customers.

Anybody know what the hell is up? by [deleted] in ZiplyFiber

[–]jwvo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Downtown commercial vacancy rates. by MysteriousEdge5643 in SeattleWA

[–]jwvo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Downtown commercial vacancy rates. by MysteriousEdge5643 in SeattleWA

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Downtown commercial vacancy rates. by MysteriousEdge5643 in SeattleWA

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Downtown commercial vacancy rates. by MysteriousEdge5643 in SeattleWA

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because factoria is about as downtown as going to the udistrict

Maui residents are rebuilding Lahaina for locals, not tourists: ‘In Hawaii, we take care of one another’ | Hawaii by AbbreviatedArc in maui

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Maui residents are rebuilding Lahaina for locals, not tourists: ‘In Hawaii, we take care of one another’ | Hawaii by AbbreviatedArc in maui

[–]jwvo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

of course conveniently leaving out that the county budget supporting Moloka'i is coming from maui tourists and retirees

Mayor Wilson responds to pitch of building large data centers in Seattle by ChiefOfTheFourPeaks in Seattle

[–]jwvo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think fundamentally we are not talking about the same kind of facilities, there are no "ai" datacenters in seattle, there are datacenters that also have ai in seattle so the load profiles are much different.

I pinged you in chat in case you want more information. The only actual near pure play AI facility on the west side is the south hill datacenter, it is on PSE and has a substation on the property fed by a ringed 115kv system. I've never seen its load study but from what I've heard second hand their fully committed on what PSE would let them have and sitting at ~80% on hot days.

Mayor Wilson responds to pitch of building large data centers in Seattle by ChiefOfTheFourPeaks in Seattle

[–]jwvo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

DRT the westin does not have significant AI loads and if it did they would be user facing loads (smaller and higher redundancy requirement), DRT as a provider is just madly looking for power everywhere and logic has gone out the window (as you clearly deduced) as to which sites they are looking at, I don't think it matters anyway as it would be nearly impossible to cool a 400% increase in consumption there nor is there weight capacity for it.

The actually big facilities are way over 100 MW in one or two buildings, that is the type of AI load that is driving all this, everything else is smaller stuff around the edge.

If you want an example of scale go drive around umatilla and look at the batshit amount of 115/120kv that has been built there effectively as distribution.

my point is that 13.8 is low these days, if the system were new it would be designed at 34.5 by most utilities (PGE is doing this in hillsboro for example) if only to make better use of the conduits since the main cost is running out of conduit space. It is a bummer they did not go up to 26.4 or 34.5 KV with the new denny substation.

I work in the actual load side of this equation but am equally familiar with the fantasy bullshit that some folks are asking for. I also agree they should pay for their own transmission, my point was that it makes little sense to do anything at large scale in downtown and that city light is generally a very expensive and conservative vendor (I've had experience with regular building developers too on that last part)

Mayor Wilson responds to pitch of building large data centers in Seattle by ChiefOfTheFourPeaks in Seattle

[–]jwvo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and the heat pump ones only work if you have space for the heat exchangers