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Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by girvo »

walrus01 wrote: post #36
manacit wrote: post #29

I don't know the new context, but I will always be thankful to badmodems.com for highlighting the original Puma 6 issue. I was given a modem by my ISP that had a Puma 6 chipset and it was a nightmare - it would completely cut out multiple times per day, latency was all over the place, and it was a truly terrible experience. Doing a bit of digging I was able to short-circuit a lot of troubleshooting and replace the mo…

As an ISP anything that is a shared access, contended media like a copper coax segment (DOCSIS3) is a nightmare waiting to happen. The amount of problems that are caused by one person with a leaky/bad connector and line, or things that have gone screwed up at the RF modulation level of the cable plant between the cablemodems and the CMTS. Imagine hundreds, or thousands of houses out there all with 25+ year old coax j…

Copper needs to die. The Australian NBN is a mess because of it. Sigh, what could've been...

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by NegativeLatency »

twblalock wrote: post #24

Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

Who doesn’t, on the other hand they could be doing fine like this kickstarter guy: https://youtu.be/7qSSBfZ6C6M

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by wnoise »

Frummy wrote: post #32

I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on…

I'll echo the dead commenter. The text is quite bitter, but nothing about seems "psychotic".

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by mechanical_bear »

Frummy wrote: post #32

I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on…

Yeah, for sure a bit unhinged. Maybe with reason though.

Re: Why I quit this battle

#45

Post by legalcorrection »

nexus7556 wrote: post #28
droopyEyelids wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original issue he made this page to deal with was actually _that bad_

Agreed. I was plagued by the issues with the puma chipset. I couldn’t figure it out, Comcast was clueless. I eventually found the threads on dslreports, bought a non-puma modem and all the problems instantly went away.

Oh I’m sure that Comcast the company knew about a serious issue plaguing a huge percent of their modems. It’s likely they just decided to play dumb so that they didn’t have to do anything about it. A calculation was done and fixing or even acknowledging the issue would have been more expensive. So don’t even tell the front line support people about it.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by BlueTemplar »

girvo wrote: post #41
walrus01 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an ISP anything that is a shared access, contended media like a copper coax segment (DOCSIS3) is a nightmare waiting to happen. The amount of problems that are caused by one person with a leaky/bad connector and line, or things that have gone screwed up at the RF modulation level of the cable plant between the cablemodems and the CMTS. Imagine hundreds, or thousands of houses out there all with 25+ year old coax j…

Copper needs to die. The Australian NBN is a mess because of it. Sigh, what could've been...

Well, copper at least has the very nice property of only requiring electricity at the central phone node, and still have working communications.

This makes it the best option by far for communication in hour-long blackouts when, for instance, cell phones and cellphone towers would have ran down their batteries.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by Frummy »

wnoise wrote: post #43
Frummy wrote: post #32

I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on…

I'll echo the dead commenter. The text is quite bitter, but nothing about seems "psychotic".

Good angle. I'm just projecting my own experiences. I feel that I have a lot in common with him.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by brigandish »

wnoise wrote: post #43
Frummy wrote: post #32

I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on…

I'll echo the dead commenter. The text is quite bitter, but nothing about seems "psychotic".

Me too. Not sure why artifact_44's comment is dead so I vouched for it, I don't see what is gained by throwing around psychiatric terms, used pejoratively, for no good reason (could there be a good reason on HN? I doubt it but I don't see one here).

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by tedunangst »

fouc wrote: post #6

"What is the issue?" https://web.archive.org/web/20210506114456/https://badmodems... > Some chip makers have hidden latency and jitter issues from common tests that are in use by consumers and even ISPs. Ping CANNOT be used reliably to test for latency or jitter.

What kind of latency issue is both noticeable and untestable?

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by BlueTemplar »

jolux wrote: post #23
joebob42 wrote: post #5

The guy comes off as kind of childish and the people on the site he links appear to know what they're talking about which makes me a bit skeptical.

Yeah he doesn't seem to understand DHCP or what the difference between a gateway or a modem is.

Yeah, not to mention that the part about

> Then,, KevinDS on DSLReports was just a incredible ass to me. It was epic. I believe he also lied to me in PM when i tried to get him to help. I was already unhappy with the future that I was looking at. He then just said nasty things. I was done.

Seems to be partially self-inflicted ?

xymox1 wrote :

> You know morons like me should not use Wireshark....

kevinds responded :

> I was thinking more along the lines of,

> Morons like you shouldn't be telling the grown-ups how to secure their networks...

> Sorry, not sorry.. ;)

Now the "grown ups" part is clearly not nice (but then what do you expect when you're starting to lay blame even though you don't know how Internet networking works?), but the "moron" part is clearly mirroring his initial self-deprecating remark, rather than a direct insult.

Also, as cramer says :

> (If anything, he doesn't understand the magnitude of the windmill he's charging.)

----

Wait until he learns how consumer routers typically have the IPv6 firewall off by default (if any), and there's no (need for) NAT (which has never been supposed to be used for security anyway, and also properly set up IPv6 suffixes are too big to be scanned), so "internal/home" devices are "directly" on the Internet !

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