It’s great having such fast Internet connectivity; it lets me tell when it’s the website I’m visiting that’s so slow!
In this case, Facebook is limiting my upload of a photo gallery to two orders of magnitude less than my actual connectivity.
Category: Personal
Bit of a Performance Increase
Old service
My old service is nominally 7 Mb/sec down, 1 Mb/sec up. At the dsl provisioning level, the upstream is set for 896 Kb/sec. This download figure is surprisingly low, but it’s lasted for several days (when I’m reasonably certain there is no other use in the house).
New service
This is nominally 1000Mb/sec both up and down.
Oh, and note that ping time, too!
So I’m going to call this a huge win! Thank you USI!
Fiber Install Progress in a Small World
We’ve all noticed we live in a small world, right? Or at least one that’s folded really funny?
Old acquaintance stopped by to check on the fiber trunk installation out front, and sent me some pictures and a progress report. He used to run The Warehouse BBS, Fidonet 282/115, and was a co-founder of USI (in fact he says it was spawned from the BBS).  (Those of you who ever heard of Fidonet may well remember that I ran The Terraboard 282/341 for quite a while.) So, thank you Travis Carter!
And he got pictures of things I probably wouldn’t, too.
Inside fiber install
I’ve been giving most of the details over on Facebook, but I thought I should nail down this big step in getting our gigabit fiber Internet service. The crew from USI came and brought the fiber from the junction box on the side of the house through to the ethernet switch they installed on the wiring panel.
So far as I know, actual Internet through this is still scheduled for sometime in the first two weeks of June.
Also, note the support for a serial “console port”!
Fiber Installation
Just before Minicon we learned that USI Internet is bringing their fiber trunk up our street. And of course immediately signed up for 1Gb (symmetric!) service.
 
Today, they came and put the conduit from the boulevard over to where the junction box on the outside of the house is. Progress! (Meanwhile I’m working on upgrading the internal network to be able to deal with this kind of external bandwidth.)