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Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by Frummy »

brigandish wrote: post #48
wnoise wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

So I think it's wrong of the author to flame other people publicly. I really denounce that. I shouldn't have gone for the jugular, using a word for a real illness. I apologise for that. That was wrong. The reason I wrote that was to convey my feeling that the author is doing something bad, writing an unstructured misspelled text bullying people with allegations that are also not verifiable. I should have thought about what actually bothered me before I commented.

"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. It would be a thankless battle I would wage on my own and I was unwilling because of people like him. So KevinDS take a bow. CableLabs loves you, Intel loves you, Arris loves you.. I was a huge thorn in thier side. The Badmodems.com site gets 700 uniqui IPs a day. 380,000 unique since the start. 16 million hits. So KevinDS, you pushed me enough at the right time to end all this. I will NOT spend the next 5 years in a new battle that is thankless and filled with people like you."

The content above doesn't belong on the front page, simply put. It's very negative, and I'm sorry that I just continued with the negativity.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by BlueTemplar »

tedunangst wrote: post #49
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?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15781788

> The Intel Puma 6 and Puma 7 chipsets have a performance issue in a part of the packet processing that is specific to TCP/IP, which went undetected for awhile because "ping" packets are not TCP/IP. [...]

(And/or because just running "ping" a few times might not catch the issue if it doesn't happen at the same time as the lag spike.)

Re: Why I quit this battle

#53

Post by unfocussed_mike »

progre wrote: post #31
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.

Center text. The mark of a man that has been pushed over the edge.

This is simultaneously funny and also somehow deep-down true.

No idea if it happened in this case because this is the first I've read about it, but it has always struck me that the websites of campaigners get progressively worse as the battle gets more and more difficult, and fellow campaigners drop out, leaving the diehards with both the campaign and maintaining the overly-ambitious campaign website that someone earnestly set up. There always comes a point where someone just hacks the HTML by hand.

Either way, I wish the guy peace of mind and hope someone can help him with his medical bills.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by girvo »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #46
girvo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Tell that to how my NBN seems to be setup. With a blackout, our internet is gone too even though my modem (and home server) are on a UPS. Wonder what causes that.

And regardless, while that might be a useful property in certain circumstances, the copper-based NBN we've ended up with is so woeful, that they're basically declaring technical bankruptcy and moving to FTTP after all that in the end anyway. Just a decade late and with billions down the drain for sub-par expensive flaky internet.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by oceanplexian »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #46
girvo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Actually the big ILECs like Verizon started deprecating copper loops, at least when I was in that industry 10 years ago. They would install a box in a neighborhood with fiber backhaul to the Central Office and a mini DSLAM, and then deliver shitty DSL from said box.

The great thing about this was they could circumvent telecommunications law that requires them to rent out circuits at a competitive rate to small carriers, basically putting the nail in the coffin of small, independent DSL ISPs, since the copper loops are gone. And you, the customer, are now stuck with 6Mbps DSL from a single provider for $80 a month.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by ikiris »

legalcorrection wrote: post #45
nexus7556 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Comcast will never have to play at dumb.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by bayindirh »

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...

FTTx systems make copper almost non-existent.

All copper in my city is replaced by fiber, and only copper is from the FTTx box in front of my apartment to my flat. Eeerything (landline, internet, IPTV, etc.) runs from a single, dark fiber.

With cabling already in place and VDSL can reliably provide 5 units of bandwidth (where 4 units is used for download and 1 unit is used for upload, e.g. 32/8 mbps), with a theoretical ceiling of 350mbps, I'm pretty happy with what I have.

While I'd love to have fiber at home, I definitely don't want to rerun cabling.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by [deleted] »

Frummy wrote: post #51
brigandish wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

So I think it's wrong of the author to flame other people publicly. I really denounce that. I shouldn't have gone for the jugular, using a word for a real illness. I apologise for that. That was wrong. The reason I wrote that was to convey my feeling that the author is doing something bad, writing an unstructured misspelled text bullying people with allegations that are also not verifiable. I should have thought abou…

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