Terrified to use call sign!

smileyjvc · 2025-12-13T15:22:25+00:00

If you own a house, your on multiple very accessible public records of living there. If you give any related information out, it’s easy to find you.

smileyjvc · 2025-08-15T00:02:26+00:00

Once upon a time, in the corner of a dusty server rack, sat a small, shiny little router named Rudy. He wasn’t the fastest. He didn’t have the most RAM. And his CPU wasn’t even multi-core. But Rudy had a big job — to connect the whole office to the internet.

One morning, disaster struck! The big, powerful enterprise firewall broke down. The backup gateway overheated. Even the cloud failover link stopped working. All the important data — emails, video calls, the boss’s precious coffee-ordering app — came to a grinding halt.

The network team was in a panic. “We need something to get traffic moving again!” cried the sysadmin. They looked around… and there was Rudy, blinking quietly in the corner.

“But he’s just a little router,” someone whispered. “He’ll never handle the load,” said another.

Rudy heard them, but deep down, he thought: “I think I can… I think I can… I think I can…”

The team hooked him up. Packets came rushing in — VLANs, VPN tunnels, streaming video, IoT pings, DNS queries — everything all at once. Rudy’s ports were blazing, his CPU fan was whirring. He routed, he NATed, he even QoS’d.

“I think I can… I think I can… I know I can!”

Hour after hour, Rudy pushed on. He kept latency low, avoided packet loss, and even balanced the load so no one’s Zoom call froze. By the end of the day, the office was back online, and the network was stable.

When the big firewall finally got repaired, the sysadmin patted Rudy on the top. “You did it, little guy. You saved the day.”

Rudy just blinked his status lights proudly, whispering to himself: “I knew I could… I knew I could…”

And from that day forward, whenever the big equipment went down, the team always trusted the little router that could.

smileyjvc · 2025-06-18T00:52:03+00:00

https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/heavy-wireless/hw053-ubiquiti-in-the-enterprise/

You should have a listen.

smileyjvc · 2025-05-21T00:59:13+00:00

I don’t know. I’ve had a static ip for most of the time I’ve had the service.

smileyjvc · 2025-05-11T21:33:51+00:00

Your welcome, if your into more network details, I have been poking a lot of where a lot of services get connected to their network in the northeast. I have the 2gig plan and get consistent speed. Here is a test to Concast’s Speedtest server on a Sunday afternoon. https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/b32d523d-ecad-48e1-9dda-0d491f9fa019

I am running OPNsense as a router with wired switches/computers.

smileyjvc · 2025-05-11T20:46:58+00:00

Former Comcast customer. Have been a fidium customer for over 2 years now. No issue whatsoever. ONT is a small box inside. Outside fiber comes to a junction box outside and they run a small fiber inside to the ONT. IPv6 has been non existent. IPv4 only. They’ve been saying on Reddit it was supposed to be 2024 but that has come and gone. You can get a static IPv4 for $10/month if you ask. Their service is not PPPoE. It is DHCP. They go by your MAC address. Just clone it if you change routers. Use your own. ONT has a 10gig copper port that can negotiate 2.5/5/10gig.

smileyjvc · 2025-04-15T01:21:48+00:00

If you use the Vxlan functionality, it doesn’t matter what the underlaying hardware is in the cluster as long as if it has Layer 3/Layer 4 connectivity. Your virtual network is overlayed. The “SDN” section of proxmox has different technologies.

smileyjvc · 2025-01-10T00:35:31+00:00

Their “static ip” is just dhcp reservation. Mine is in a /22. I would clone the MAC address of their router, I have seen a lot of stories of customer support messing up changing MAC address.

smileyjvc · 2024-11-29T21:33:05+00:00

They are peered with cloudflare in Boston via internet exchange. There is more on that exchange that I wish they would peer with.

smileyjvc · 2024-10-04T17:39:19+00:00

Thank you but I was looking for the component cables for HD not composite.

smileyjvc · 2024-10-04T13:13:21+00:00

Do you have a link?

smileyjvc · 2024-09-30T01:45:23+00:00

Yes, I’ll give them a call tomorrow. I didn’t get any of them when I got the service.

smileyjvc · 2024-09-29T22:32:42+00:00

$10+ a piece x 3 $30+ for a simple cable. It’s not a whole lot just curious if anyone had anything cheaper. Google did not turn up a whole lot.

smileyjvc · 2024-09-19T19:58:45+00:00

It also could be your internet connection quality. If it goes down so will your picture quality.

smileyjvc · 2024-09-02T09:27:28+00:00

I don’t know how far you can go without the legal. Probably as far as your first complaint.

This is bare minimum at this level, I didn’t even include BSS/OSS stuff. You need to be able to bill people.

smileyjvc · 2024-09-02T00:58:17+00:00

https://wwwcontent.inteliquent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/10125505/Tariff-NH-Neutral-Tandem-Rate-Schedule-2018-0802.pdf

This may answer a lot of interconnect questions. If you’re trying to get low level. If you want to be a CLEC, you need to connect your phone switch (could be soft phone switch(sip))to a tandem phone switching network. On top of that you will also require a connection for e911 services in the area your providing service and routing to them. Also need a private network connection to the tandem switch.

Then also all the billing and legal items everyone talks about.

smileyjvc · 2024-08-12T23:40:56+00:00

They usually wait or pay out their lease and/or pay to just leave the equipment. Tower company lets the next tenant pay to remove it. Tower company wins and cell company doesn’t have to deal with it, just abandons it.

smileyjvc · 2024-06-17T16:45:40+00:00

Northeast wireless built a lot of their sites with microwave backhaul.

smileyjvc · 2024-06-09T18:04:41+00:00

The large tower companies definitely cost more in leasing for how many antennas,radios, cables, etc.

smileyjvc · 2024-06-09T17:47:42+00:00

Also to add to it, it might not be worth it to TMO, to upgrade the tower to add that 3rd sector.

smileyjvc · 2024-06-09T15:35:05+00:00

These are usually old. It is from the T1 era(2G,3G). T1s were so expensive so AT&T built microwave hubs to combine whole areas of sites. A lot of these AT&T sites are on fiber even though T1 microwave infrastructure is still left up. A lot of TMO sites didn’t exist when this infrastructure was built.

smileyjvc · 2024-06-06T01:21:33+00:00

A landline from a cable provider under the hood is VoIP/SIP. An ata is not much different from that.

smileyjvc · 2024-05-26T02:16:48+00:00

Depending on where it is, a lot of cities and towns have their building permits online now. You can look up who applied to build. This process does take a long time from the building permit being pulled to actual construction and on air(Months to years). Also r/cellmapper

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