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> "After switching back and re-authenticating with the broadband APN, I’m no longer being throttled." If the author is reading this, I recommend putting an update at the head of your article with this. It will be kinder to your readers.
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Unlimited is a term of art that means "limited".
Yup. Buffets have been that way forever. No one is actually allowed to eat unlimited.
I think it is the latency. 130 ms will cause websites with lots of little files across multiple https servers to load slowly. If the resources was bundled into a single file, it would load faster. (My corporate network used to have similarly exaggerated latency on a bad old wire.)
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The only thing with Fi is that it is T-Mobile, and you'll always be in a lower priority block of customers compared to people paying for T-Mobile directly, which mean you'll see slower traffic in congested areas at peak times (including e.g. during rush hour traffic).
Thats not true, Google Fi has the same priority as postpaid T-Mobile. This is something MVNOs negotiate in their contracts with carriers, not something thats true across the board. Discount MVNOs increase their margins by buying wholesale deprioritized data while Google Fi has negotiated the no deprioritization.
Are you near Utah? The fact you are being routed to a cloudfront pop in IAD is kinda broken. What are you using for your DNS resolver?
I've used `1.1.1.1`, `8.8.8.8`, and others during this debacle, which I can't recall.
Here are some query responses that I received during the incident, but I can't tell you which resolvers were in use during the queries.
``` host web-assets.strava.com web-assets.strava.com is an alias for dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net. dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.46 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.56 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.10 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.115 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:8000:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:e600:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:c600:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:b600:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:d000:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:6400:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:f000:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:400:17:4613:2840:93a1 ```
``` host web-assets.strava.com web-assets.strava.com is an alias for dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net. dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.56 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.10 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.115 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99.84.208.46 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:4c00:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:ae00:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:c000:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:7200:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:1000:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:b800:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:9400:17:4613:2840:93a1 dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has IPv6 address 2600:9000:2199:9e00:17:4613:2840:93a1 ```
The only difference I've seen is order, which is expected.
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I actually spot some different IPv6 hosts above, after having taken a closer look.
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As far as I can tell, Bell holds its Canadian customers hostage to force peers to pay them for what should be mutually beneficial peering. It does not participate in _ANY_ of the Canadian internet exchanges. Even Rogers connects to TORIX. https://bgp.he.net/AS577#_ix
Because they believe you are customers. This is no different than me approaching Verizon or at&t and demanding they peer with me.
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Because they believe you are customers. This is no different than me approaching Verizon or at&t and demanding they peer with me.
As it turns out, I am a Bell retail customer being held hostage by their refusal to engage in seemingly any settlement-free peering with other Canadian networks. I am only their customer because the third-party providers indicated that they were unable to provide service despite Bell DSL service being subject to local-loop unbundling. As the monopoly incumbent that has received significant subsidy to develop their se…
For several years the TELUS and Bell peering PNIs (OC12s back then) would run hot regularly in domestic Canada - for years.
You'll never get them to peer openly, but at best you can get them to offer market rates for paid peer (which is what folks have tried to do in the US).
Are you near Utah? The fact you are being routed to a cloudfront pop in IAD is kinda broken. What are you using for your DNS resolver?
Durnago, CO is close to Utah, so that's not a surprise. I've used `1.1.1.1`, `8.8.8.8`, and others during this debacle, which I can't recall. Here are some query responses that I received during the incident, but I can't tell you which resolvers were in use during the queries. ``` host web-assets.strava.com web-assets.strava.com is an alias for dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net. dgpcy4fyk1eox.cloudfront.net has address 99…
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Easy. goto here: https://www.att.com/support log in. cancel. tell them why. goto https://www.t-mobile.com port your number and sign up. and you're done! You can't legislate good behavior. You can only hit them in the checkbook. Wireless fortunately doesn't have the cable providers do, where local governments have entrenched players into local monopolies. Switching away is the most powerful thing you can do.
lol as if ATT is going to care if a tiny handful of techies switches because of this.
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If you're travelling, I find it hard to beat Fi. You literally land in a new country, turn your phone back on and you get a "Welcome to [country] - your data rate is the same" message almost anywhere. Personally - I've flown from Taiwan to Brazil to Amsterdam and then back to the US and I don't have to think about my phone. It just works. --- Outside of the travel use-case, I would also probably pick something else,…
With eSim and the Airalo app, international travel is fairly painless. It costs a few bucks and a couple minutes to setup (which can be done while waiting at the airport to leave) to get a data-only sim for your destination county. If you're paying for an expensive domestic account for international reasons instead of a cheaper $40/mo eg Mint mobile plan, it might be worth investigating theirs plans to see if it woul…
And the key thing is I just don't have to think about it. I can't forget to register a new account, I don't have to worry about esoteric sign up requirements for certain countries (ex: Brazil wants a CPF for fucking everything), and I can't get stuck without a connection and then not be able to setup the next step.