Mahone

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  1. We are partly saying the same thing, but it isn't just a "last mile" issue (unless by last mile you're referring to the whole of the ISPs infrastructure - such terminology has multiple meanings in the networking world). It's across the entire ISPs infrastructure, and beyond that to the higher tier networks and internet backbones - but how it works once the traffic leaves the ISPs network is a different discussion. I'd agree that a third party would be a good compromise on deciding which data gets which QoS rules, but those rules need to apply right the way through the ISPs infrastructure. Essentially, I don't believe all traffic should be treated equally by the ISP, I think QoS should be implemented if required. But I'd be happy for a third party to decide how those QoS rules are applied. Bear in mind that I'm not saying this technology requires implementing widely at present on ISPs networks, but I do think the ISPs should be able to resort to this if necessary.
  2. For the people asking "why apple" and not tablets from much cheaper manufacturers, I don't have any inside knowledge, but my guess is for support related reasons. Historically the church has always developed it's apps for Apple devices first, before focusing on other platforms such as Android or Windows. The missionaries are likely going to be some of the first users of these apps, so it makes sense for them to have the platform the apps are initially developed for.
  3. I'm not sure it has a position with net neutrality, as technically the traffic is treated equally still, just more efficient routing. Looking at the news articles since I first read about it, I think despite netflix claims that the ISPs should pay, netflix ending up paying for direct physical links to the ISPs networks in question.
  4. I believe this proposal will end up costing end users considerably more.So let's assume the statistical multiplexing that the ISP performs on their physical links is modified to prioritize all and any traffic that originated from or is going to the "premium" end user connections. This also includes traffic that is really unnecessary to prioritize, such as torrent downloading, youtube videos and any real time one way streaming that can buffer, just because the customer is saying it should be, by pushing it through that premium link. At some point, during peak times, that premium traffic is going to exceed the throughput that the ISPs equipment can handle and things start slowing down. Users with services like VoIP will immediately begin to notice, as this service requires low latency. Currently ISPs can perform deep packet inspection and have the option of sticking a QoS tag onto the data protocol unit to prioritize the traffic for services that will really notice the delay, such as VoIP. Anything not prioritized is unlikely to notice the delay of only a few milliseconds, such as standard HTTP traffic. This method can avoid having to upgrade expensive equipment and install additional physical links between PoPs, the cost of which would ultimately get passed onto the consumers.
  5. Yes, my understanding is that the Internet Service Providers are expected by netflix to pay for the additional infrastructure to connect the two networks directly, as opposed to routing through a higher tier network. If an ISP refuses to cough up, netflix traffic to their customers will likely suffer from additional delays and slow speeds.
  6. I assume you're referring to very large service providers such as netflix?
  7. As far as I can tell, your solution is at the physical layer. Are you proposing that ISPs have two separate physical infrastructures, one which is the "fast lane" and offers high speed low latency service for all traffic send down it, and another which offers a lower quality connection? Just trying to clarify.
  8. Yes, I was serious. Mainly because everyone is talking about net neutrality, but everyone seems to have a slightly different idea of what it actually entails and how it will be done.Personally I like the idea of all traffic treated equally as a basic principle, but it leaves a few questions that need answering. For example, what about quality of service rules for traffic such as VoIP? Controlling that from the end point doesn't help much. The point of QoS is that higher priority QoS is given a higher priority throughout the life of the packet, not just at the end points. VoIP traffic needs low latency to work. For instance, if VoIP traffic gets stuck behind facebook HTTP traffic, the VoIP users are going to notice very quickly when the conversation starts breaking up. On the flip side, the Facebook user is unlikely to notice any difference if they have to wait a further split second for their Facebook chat message to send because the VoIP traffic was prioritized. The basic principle as you gave it will allow this problem to continue, and no-one will be allowed to try and combat it.
  9. You think so?Out of curiosity, how do you define network neutrality? What would you like to see ISPs doing with the traffic going through their networks?
  10. I strongly disagree that suicide is selfish. In many cases, the mindset of the individual committing suicide is distorted to the extent that logical thinking is impossible. It's entirely likely that at the moment they go through with the act, they believe those they are leaving behind will ultimately be better off without them.
  11. I'm not going to disagree with the latter claim, but I'm curious as to whether you have any reputable statistics to back up the former claim regarding safety, or clarify what you meant by "almost all"?
  12. This is something I fear. For the past three years living in the UK we spent all of our vacation time and money visiting Florida to see my wife's family. Now that we're in Florida I really hope we won't be tied up visiting only the UK for the rest of our lives.
  13. Countries: Scotland England Wales France Germany Spain Gambia USA States: New York Florida Temples: Preston London Orlando I feel that everyone who grew up in a country that doesn't have high levels of poverty (against the international poverty line) should visit a country that does at some point early on in their life. I know my attitude changed considerably when I visited Gambia for the first time at the age of ~12.
  14. The first funeral I attended here had a photographer, and people were smiling and posing for photos, including the daughters of the lady that the funeral was for. Many of these daughters were in their very early to mid 20's, so still young. I don't recall a single tear except from the husband. I thought the fact that photos were being taken was odd - I'd normally associate this with a more exhilarating event. The second funeral was largely the same. I don't have enough experience to know if this is common, but it certainly felt closer to a celebration of life than mourning of a death that I'm accustomed to. After I got over the initial surprise, I actually preferred it.
  15. Regarding funerals in the US, I've attended two now, and I admit the first one shocked me a little. Firstly because I hasn't expected an open casket, I was previously unaware that this tends to be tradition here. Im no child, but I think ill avoid the "viewing" part at the next US funeral I attend, and I've made my wife promise that I will not be observed in this manner after my death in the event that she outlives me (which is statistically likely). Secondly, as mentioned above, they seem to be a lot more light hearted than I am accustomed to. But I much prefer this to the period of intense mourning that I'm accustomed to at funerals in the UK.
  16. That's because you're using the thumbnail URL. If you look at the URLs Google use for their image thumbnails, there is no file extension at the end of the URL. Your browser knows how to interpret the the image however, even without the file extension, by looking at the contents of the file. The forum software isn't quite that advanced, and it's looking for a image file extension to verify whether it'll accept that type of file. It doesn't see one, so it simply doesn't allow it. If you look at the image file you posted that did work, you can see the URL does have a JPG file extension at the end of it. Therefore the forum software knows what it is and allows it. The solution is just to click 'view the full size image'. That will take you to a URL that likely has the file extension at the end of it. You should be very careful doing this though. It's known as hot-linking and many websites don't like you to embed images direct from their websites. If you do that, it downloads the image from their website each time someone loads this forum page, using their bandwidth and costing them money. They can and do use techniques using cookies to show a different image to anyone who hasn't visited their website directly but is viewing the image via a different website, like lds.net. Sometimes this different image isn't very pleasant.
  17. Around christmas 2010, I was at the Birmingham airport in the UK. My destination was Florida, USA, but it wasn't a direct flight and needed to change at Frankfurt, Germany. It only snows in Birmingham once or twice a year, and that it just so happened that it started snowing as I was waiting for my flight. My flight to Frankfurt therefore departed 5 hours late, and I ended up just missing my connecting flight by maybe 20 minutes. It was also snowing heavily in Frankfurt, so many flights were also delayed there (my connecting flight was one of the few allowed to take off on time) and the airport was a scene of chaos and disorganization. Every service desk had lengthy queues, most were a couple of hours long. They had set up temporary service desks to help mitigate the crowds but each desk had a different role, had nothing to do with the individual airlines and were only labeled in German. I've never taken German classes so I don't speak the language, many of the airport staff didn't speak English and the ones that did had no idea where I needed to go. My phone battery was long dead, I had no local currency, my charger and everything else was in my luggage, and I had no idea where that was as it should have been autonatically transferred onto the flight I had missed. Eventually after about 3 or 4 hours of waiting in queues at the wrong service desks, I found the one I needed and was put in a taxi to a nearby hotel, thankfully paid for by the airline without any argument. But I still didn't have my luggage, there were no nearby shops, I had no local currency and the hotel had very few toiletries, so when I finally made it to Florida the next day, I met my fiancee wearing the same clothes I'd worn the day before after a 9 hour flight, no deodorant, no use of toothpaste for 36 hours etc. Anyone who has flown on long flights knows that you can look pretry rough at your destination without any of those additional issues. I did make use of the sample aftershave in the duty free section of the Frankfurt airport though. It must have done the trick, she still married me.
  18. Im assuming other sites do work at the moment via wifi? It looks like your DNS settings may be set incorrectly, or the DNS server you are using has stopping working temporarily. Other sites may stop working eventually as well. A quick fix in this case is just to set your DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 The method you use to do this depends on what device you're using.
  19. Almost no-one outside of the US knows who Harry Reid is. Mitt Romney on the other hand is well known internationally.
  20. I'm not completely sure where apple stands in your analogy, but if you mean that you think they provide superior products to Microsoft, I'd have to respectfully disagree for the most part. OSX and many other apple products are fantastic in a domestic environment with a very simple setup, and it's these environments that most of their fan base are found. But try and do anything remotely complex with them and they fall over horribly, despite what Apple claim they can do. Only one operating system has kept me at work until 4 in the morning for several days in a row while on a new network install, and it wasn't windows or *nix. For anyone that knows network routing protocols, in my mind OSX is like RIP - it's simple to configure and use but can only deal with the basics before falling over. Windows is like OSPF, it works well in both small and large environments, but can be more complex to set up if you want it to work well in those larger environments. Linux is like BGP. It's a little clunky sometimes and can be complex, but it's the workhorse of all routing protocols and can handle considerably more being thrown at it than either of the two above, hence why it's the routing protocol used for the internet.
  21. Not sure what everyone else has been talking about but when I think sherbet, im thinking of this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(powder)
  22. I have never memorized my last three or four mobile/cell phone numbers, or that of my family. I don't call myself, and the phone book on my phone for the most part negates the need to memorize it or anyone elses. Yet I still remember phones numbers from the distance past, like that of my mums old place of work (11 years ago) and an ex girlfriend from when I was around 14 (14 years ago). That was of course when land line phones were still common place and didn't tend to have built in phone books and you had to enter the number manually, making it a lot easier to remember.
  23. One point to make is that it's against the terms and conditions of most social networks, including IG, to have an account before the age of 13. So she has violated their T&C.
  24. How so? Too easy to use, or the fact that there is so much you can't do in it (required to use the GUI)? I will bear your friends advice in mind
  25. I've considered paying for cloud servers for personal use (testing etc), but there is something satisfying about having your own physical infrastructure that I just can't get from the cloud. Especially seeing as many cloud providers likely do all the switching and routing configuration for you, which isn't something I want.It's true that static IPs can be expensive (although things should change in that regard once IPV6 becomes the norm), but other than that, you can get the physical equipment (servers, routers, switches etc) at a fairly low cost, especially if you utilize virtualisation like VMWare, which is free (unless you're looking for heavy DR). That plus I'm currently unemployed and need something to occupy my time Also, with many ISPs, if you keep your border router switched on 24/7 like most people, you end up with the same IP for months at a time. I find this suits my purposes.