Peter’s Blog about lots of things

So yesterday the washer and dryer showed up.  I bought an LG steam washer and dryer from Sears.  Overall experience?  10 out of 10.   Went in there, looked at all the models that were more or less in the same range of 1000 - 1400 per unit, and then ultimately went with the LG that was on sale for ~1049.

It was surprising that the other models were more, including Sears, Whirlpool, Bosch, Electrolux, etc…  I really liked the Bosch but it was like $700 more between the washer and dryer.  That is real money.  If it would have been say, $250 or less between the two, i would have gone for that one.

So I have washed everything in the house and now i need some more dirty clothes, so if you have any, mail them to me and i will wash and send back.  So far, this thing is awesome.  It is quiet, has more settings and you can turn off the beeper/ringer when it is clean, vs the old 1988 things we had.

I highly recommend LG so far…  I always have recommended sears.  They are just good.

so, gradually, what little i did outside of facebook seems to be getting ignored or absorbed into facebook’s apps.  I’m sure i’m not the first guy to point this out.  Surely classmates/reunion/etc… are all going to suffer.  I think another one is linkedin.  As soon as facebook has a professional edge/area, out goes linkedin.  I guess time will prove me right or wrong, stay tuned and tune back in a couple of years…

Hello folks… I am posting the pdf raw version of the results from over 100 ISPs, etc… that answered questions to the survey i put out.  Basically we got a lot of networks from Europe.  That meant that some of the results when presented to the skeptical nanog audience was full of “i don’t believe Dtag was so far up there in traffic… etc…”  Well, that is because those skeptics now understand that the Internet is more than just their USA /Canadian isp traffic beliefs.  So welcome to the internet folks, it is worldwide ! ! !

Here’s the pdf file, i promise to do a better job on the interpretation of the results when i have time!  And thanks to Bryan Berg and Ben Kirkpatrick that helped a lot on it!  Peter.

Folks, i’m on a evdo u727 card sitting in a suburb of philadelphia.   it works quite well, i am impressed.   Now, if you had to pay for it yourself, might not be worth it unless you are rich.

So if you travel to hotels, and airports, do the math:

call it $60/month for evdo

Call it $10 for a hotel or airport internet access each time/ per 24 hours…

Do the math, 6x equals you are a head with a evdo card and you have more reliable service, plus if you ever  needed to, you could use it in the car in a parking lot, while waiting for someone, etc…  Doctor’s office, you name it…   Go buy one!

Uh… nice…   was going to get the 13, but basically i need that 2 inches, did the amortization over 3 years and figured it was an extra 300/year, or say $6 week…   You get the idea…

Now… I need a wrist pad wrest, as it scratches AND scratches my watch and we don’t want that watch scratched further, as the old g4 powerbook ate some of that metal for some hot metal on metal love.

You get the idea.. .More later.. very exciting..

wacky, my sister’s ATT aka… BellSouth DSL has an IPV6 address that pops up from the ifconfig or is it ipconfig when i set up her new netgear wireless which they couldn’t get to work. (more…)

Well folks, you probably either were affected by, or potentially noticed that there was a several day sever of the interconnections between Sprint & Cogent.  For those who didn’t know, this as usually has little or nothing to do with IPV6 but rather IPV4, the network that matters.

Sprint probably said that Cogent didn’t have enough traffic, or the ratios were skewed or some other criteria was amiss and alas (notice i got an “amiss” and an “alas” in a single sentence) Cogent didn’t qualify for settlement free peering with Sprint.  My experience is, of course that Cogent probably sends 4x what it received from Sprint and that was way beyond the traffic ratios, even if they were leniant (not sure how that word is spelled) Cogent still didn’t qualify and should cough up some dough for the difference or for an interconnect all together.

Now the problem seems solved, so we go on to a complete internet worldwide…