#networking

Posts tagged #networking

1. Article

   Remote from Guwahati: two ISPs, one UPS I talk to like family, and what a flood does to fibre

   I write Django for a startup in Berlin, from Guwahati. The Brahmaputra view from my window is lovely. The broadband is not. After three years, here is my setup and what it has survived. Medium length, because my UPS only gives me so much time. The connections Primary: local fibre, 100 Mbps on paper, 60 to 80 in reality, very stable when it works. Backup: a 5G fixed wireless box from a different operator (Jio…

   Bikash KalitaOct 4, 202621likes11comments

2. Poll

   How you access your homelab from outside? (honest answer pls)

   Nguyễn Minh HiếuSep 29, 202612likes10comments

3. Link

   Hamish got me onto this. Two cheap LoRa boards running Meshtastic, one in the shed, one in the ute: 6.8 km before it dropped out, with a hill in the way. No SIM, no internet, no subscription. Putting one on the roof next weekend, will report back 🔧

   Matt O'BrienSep 25, 202614likes7comments

4. Question

   Vets in tech: how did you translate your MOS into a resume a civilian recruiter actually reads?

   Roger, first real question post. Context: Army, 12 yrs, 25U (signal support systems specialist), SSG. ETS in about 6 months. Doing SkillBridge in the spring if it gets approved. Learning Python and Linux at night. Have Security+ from the Army (they made us). Problem: my resume reads like an NCOER. "Supervised 9 Soldiers. Maintained 100% accountability of $2.1M in signal equipment. Ensured COMSEC compliance." Brett…

   Ray AlvarezSep 16, 202613likes10comments

5. Article

   Flutter apps for firewall season: making your app usable when Pakistani internet is crawling

   Yaar, if you build apps in Pakistan you know the seasons. Summer, monsoon, wedding season, and firewall season. When the internet slows down "for reasons", VPNs crawl, WhatsApp images do not load, and my clients in Dubai think our app is broken. Our app is not broken. The pipe is. So this is what we changed in our Flutter apps. We are a two person studio, the clients are in Dubai and Riyadh, but most of our test…

   Hamza ButtAug 6, 202614likes11comments

6. Video

   Sharing this WSJ explainer for anyone who still thinks a shutdown is one big switch somebody flips. India has been at or near the top of Access Now's yearly shutdown count for years. I count things for a living, and this is one number I want to see go down.

   Ira SaxenaJul 30, 202629likes8comments

7. Link

   If your job depends on the internet (it does), spend ten minutes on this map. Zoom into the west coast of Africa and count the lines. Then zoom into the North Atlantic. Then reread my cable thread.

   Achieng OwinoJul 17, 202618likes7comments

8. Article

   Building APIs for users on 2G, prepaid data and phones from 2017: 20 things I learned the expensive way (1/20)

   1/ Your users pay for every megabyte. Prepaid, in a currency that may have lost value this year. Every KB your API sends is money out of their pocket. Start there and most of this thread follows. 2/ Test like your users live. Chrome's "Slow 3G" preset is a holiday. On a Linux box between your test phone and the internet: sudo tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 400ms 100ms loss 2% rate 400kbit # remove it again…

   Achieng OwinoJul 10, 202647likes16comments

9. Image

   goal for this weekend

   Nguyễn Minh HiếuJul 8, 20267likes6comments

10. Article

    In early 2024, African internet broke three times in three months. A thread on undersea cables, for people who think the cloud is in the sky (1/18)

    1/ If you work remotely from Africa, your job is attached to a handful of cables lying on the sea floor. In 2024 we all learned exactly how few. 2/ February 2024: several cables in the Red Sea were damaged, including Seacom, AAE-1 and EIG. The damage was widely reported to have come from the dragging anchor of a cargo ship that had been attacked and abandoned. East African traffic to Europe and Asia had to be…

    Achieng OwinoJun 9, 202621likes11comments

11. Article

    Pi-hole + Unbound on an old Pi 3B: my setup after 2 year, full config

    Hi all, this is my first long post here. My Pi 3B is the oldest thing in my homelab and still the most important, because when it is down the whole house have no internet and my wife know exactly who to blame :) Why Unbound and not only Pi-hole Pi-hole alone block ads, but it still forward every query to some upstream (Google, Cloudflare, or your ISP). My ISP DNS here sometimes is slow, and when I type a domain…

    Nguyễn Minh HiếuMay 27, 202616likes8comments