[FRIAM] hijinks

[Marcus Daniels]

Out in Arroyo Hondo in the early 2000s, I had Starband.  The bandwidth was good for the time but the latency was impossible.   If I really had to work remote (typing over ssh), I'd use dialup.   To grab tarfiles and such I'd use the satellite.

AT&T my ISP, and the parent company of CNN is still acting up here.   At this point there isn't much Trump could do that would surprise me.   Remember this weird news conference?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/fbi-election-security/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence/divided-senate-confirms-trump-loyalist-ratcliffe-as-u-s-top-spy-idUSKBN22X28G

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 9:34 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] hijinks


I'm signed up, waiting for Starlink to be available at my low latitude (and as more service comes online).   I think they (or any Satellite company) could do really good business on a low-volume, burst-demand service...   to be used almost exclusively when your primary service is down.   It seems like they could serve 10x the number of users @ $30/month than they could with more-full service @ $100/month .    I tried talking my neighbors (4 total in an island 1/2 mile from anyone else) into meshing up our network services (one does have satellite, another has weak-antique copper-lines put in by the phone company 40 years ago) but they are not curious nor pro-active types.   I even offered to boost my own service up to a scale that would cover *all* of our bandwidth needs if *they* were providing *me* with the redundancy *I* need.   Oh well.

I'm in a media hole, getting my internet via microwave off of Tesuque Peak and no good wires/fiber close enough to link up with (and right-of-way issues with the pueblo in any case).   No cell tower signal even with a booster (intermittent enough to have tiny bits of txt squirt through).  I have a clear view of the equatorial sky.   I use GoogleFi and Roku streaming for phone/txt/TV which makes me entirely dependent on that one little tower on a mountain with a 2 week supply of diesel for the backup genny.   Snow has never taken them down (even deep/heavy) but high winds sometimes repoint the antennae enough someone has to go up and manually reposition them...

If I were truly paranoid I suppose I'd jump on the IP over Ham Radio bandwagon too and wrap my house in grounded copper mesh against the potential Solar Storm/EMP that will probably take out global comms (before a rogue asteroid takes out the biosphere).
On 11/6/20 9:36 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I'm fond of my fiber optic connection, but there's a reason for considering Starlink as a backup.
MSNBC is back now.  For a while it was just Fox News! !  (I have IPTV.)

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com><mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 8:24 AM
To: friam at redfish.com<mailto:friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] hijinks


My ISP (CNSP/NMSURF) went down at 1:30 yesterday afternoon and did not return until the wee hours this morning.   They reported that a major fiber cut *south* of ABQ was the cause and it took out their primary feed, but also a couple of secondary/tertiary feeds they usually can fall back on.

I blame the Boogaloo Bois... or maybe the Cowboys for Trump with their backhoes....   do Antifa know how to operate heavy equipment?  Surely it is in their training protocol?   They seem more likely to actually have people who would know how to splice up broken fiber.
On 11/6/20 9:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Any ideas on what hijinks we'll be seeing in the coming days?

My internet has been fluctuating in performance for 15 minutes or so.   Of course, my first thought was a White House ordered cyber operation on media/ISPs.

Marcus




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