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Frontier Averages
11 February 2011 - 07:09 PM
You got to love this, don't take this wrong and I am not knocking anyone's speeds.
Uploads are normally around this if not more, the average is looking good too.
Uploads are normally around this if not more, the average is looking good too.
Frontier Dsl
05 February 2011 - 07:52 AM
Best true speed as of yet!
Ipv4 Address Pool Has Been Used Up.
03 February 2011 - 01:06 PM
The internet has (kind of) run out of space
Quote
(CNN) -- On Thursday, the internet as we know it ran out of space.
The nonprofit group that assigns addresses to service providers announced that, on Thursday morning, it allocated the last free Web addresses available from the current pool used for most of the internet's history.
"This is an historic day in the history of the internet, and one we have been anticipating for quite some time," said Raul Echeberria, chairman of the Number Resource Organization.
But fear not. The group has seen this coming for more than a decade and is ready with a new pool of addresses that it expects to last, well, forever.
John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, said the old pool of Internet Protocol addresses had about 4.3 billion addresses.
"A billion sounds like a lot," Curran said Thursday morning. "But when you think that there's nearly 7 billion people on the planet, and you're talking about two, three, four, five addresses per person (for some Web users), obviously 4.3 billion isn't enough."
The new pool, which has technically been ready since 1999, has so many IP addresses that most non-mathematicians probably don't even know the number exists -- 340 undecillion.
That's 340 trillion groups of one trillion networks each. Each network can handle a trillion devices. If the current pool were the size of a golf ball, the new one would be the size of the sun.
"I hope this is the only transition we ever have to do," Curran said.
Curran said most internet users won't see any effect from the transition. Businesses or others with their own websites may want to contact their providers to make sure they're linked to a new address to ensure that future users can visit as easily as possible.
Most people access websites by their domain names, or URLs. Those are usually word-based, like CNN.com.
But the actual address is a string of numbers and decimal points. The new system uses a much longer string, and has numbers, letters and other characters.
Internet addresses aren't limited to websites; every internet-connected device has a built-in Web address. Curran said that the numbers started running out much more quickly once smartphones and other mobile devices became more popular around the world.
The Number Resource Organization is an umbrella group for five regional nonprofits, including Curran's, that parcel out addresses. On Monday, it handed out two packets of current addresses to the group in the Asian-Pacific region.
That triggered a plan to divide the last five packets between the NRO's five groups on Thursday.
A few addresses using the new address pool -- it's called IPv6 and the current one is IPv4 -- have already been parceled out to service providers who requested them.
Curran said it will probably be six to nine months before the addresses already handed out are all used up.
The nonprofit group that assigns addresses to service providers announced that, on Thursday morning, it allocated the last free Web addresses available from the current pool used for most of the internet's history.
"This is an historic day in the history of the internet, and one we have been anticipating for quite some time," said Raul Echeberria, chairman of the Number Resource Organization.
But fear not. The group has seen this coming for more than a decade and is ready with a new pool of addresses that it expects to last, well, forever.
John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, said the old pool of Internet Protocol addresses had about 4.3 billion addresses.
"A billion sounds like a lot," Curran said Thursday morning. "But when you think that there's nearly 7 billion people on the planet, and you're talking about two, three, four, five addresses per person (for some Web users), obviously 4.3 billion isn't enough."
The new pool, which has technically been ready since 1999, has so many IP addresses that most non-mathematicians probably don't even know the number exists -- 340 undecillion.
That's 340 trillion groups of one trillion networks each. Each network can handle a trillion devices. If the current pool were the size of a golf ball, the new one would be the size of the sun.
"I hope this is the only transition we ever have to do," Curran said.
Curran said most internet users won't see any effect from the transition. Businesses or others with their own websites may want to contact their providers to make sure they're linked to a new address to ensure that future users can visit as easily as possible.
Most people access websites by their domain names, or URLs. Those are usually word-based, like CNN.com.
But the actual address is a string of numbers and decimal points. The new system uses a much longer string, and has numbers, letters and other characters.
Internet addresses aren't limited to websites; every internet-connected device has a built-in Web address. Curran said that the numbers started running out much more quickly once smartphones and other mobile devices became more popular around the world.
The Number Resource Organization is an umbrella group for five regional nonprofits, including Curran's, that parcel out addresses. On Monday, it handed out two packets of current addresses to the group in the Asian-Pacific region.
That triggered a plan to divide the last five packets between the NRO's five groups on Thursday.
A few addresses using the new address pool -- it's called IPv6 and the current one is IPv4 -- have already been parceled out to service providers who requested them.
Curran said it will probably be six to nine months before the addresses already handed out are all used up.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/03/internet.addresses.gone/index.html?hpt=T2
Setting Up 2 Xbox 360S
02 January 2011 - 10:51 AM
I finally figured out how to get 2 XBOX 360's working on XBOX Live and here is how I did it.
My Modem is a Westell VeraLink 7500 (DSL) I don't think it matters whom the provider is but you will need to do several steps to configure this setup to work correctly. I should imagine you can do the same thing with Cable modems but I have never had access to one so you will need to search on Google or your preferred search engine for the details for your modem.
So to begin, the Equipment you will need is as follows and I will list the reasons why.
(1) Modem of course or this topic is useless.
(2) Router #1
(3) Router #2
Reason for 2 routers is that you need to open up ports on specific IP addresses that the XBOX's will use.
Change Modem to Bridge Mode
First thing your going to need to do is access your modems Admin page and this is where your going to need documentation for your modem, go to the My Network tab and click on connections, then broadband connections and under VC you will need to edit this. Change the protocol to Bridge and click apply, at this time a lot of things will happen, your wireless should shut down (versalink 7500), your DHCP server will shut down.
You should now edit your network settings on your computer and set yourself a static IP for the time being unless your router is distributing your IP, if this is the case ignore the Static IP part.
Next you will need to log into your router #1 and change the internet connection type to PPoE (DSL) or whatever your connection uses, You will be presented with a Username and Password box, enter in your DSL username and your DSL Password and these are the same ones you signed up with.
Click on Save settings, when your router has saved the settings go back and check the status page on the router and see if you have a new assigned IP address from your ISP,
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124 downloads
It may take a few seconds to appear, if nothing is there hit the refresh on the router screen and check again, if still nothing is there check your username and settings are correct.
Now I set my routers up as 192.168.0.35 = Router1 and 192.168.0.36 = Router2 so I can identify which is which and will make it easier later to get things working! Ok, now do the exact same thing for Router #2, what is weird and I did not know I could do this but each router will pull a separate IP from your ISP... I am not sure if they will like this but it works so I don't understand why they would care, if they did it would be blocked right?
Set up the XBOX's
You will need to assign your XBOX's static IP addresses, you may need a pen and paper to do this so you don't get confused as to what is what, Each box is going to point to one and only one Router!
Box one assign the static IP of 192.168.0.10 subnet is 255.255.255.0 the default gateway would be 192.168.0.35 and change your primary DNS to 192.168.0.35
Box two assign the static IP of 192.168.0.11 subnet is 255.255.255.0 the default gateway would be 192.168.0.36 and change your primary DNS to 192.168.0.36
The DNS settings really don't matter as it can be either router, they both use the same DNS servers! but for this purpose do the above.
Setting up the Ports
Here is the part to set up the routers to allow the open ports, now if you look around on the internet people will tell you that you need x amount of ports open. All you need is three of them and I will tell you the ports in a second. Go to the admin page of router #1 and go to the Applications and gaming tab, once there click on Single port forwarding on newer Cisco routers or Port Range forward on older Cisco (Linksys) routers. Now we need to enter in the ports we need open and pay attention here or you will have a moderate NAT or limited connection to XBOX live.
For the application name I use XBL so I know what its for and for the first port input ext 88 int 88 protocol UDP IP = 192.168.0.10 second port XBL ext 3074 int 3074 BOTH IP = 192.168.0.10 third port XBL ext 3030 int 3030 BOTH IP = 192.168.0.10
Do the Same for Router #2 but you need to change the IP's to 192.168.0.11 for the second XBOX.
It should look something like this...
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119 downloads
So that is it in a nutshell, once all of these steps have been done go into your XBOX dashboard and check your connection, you should not see any flags, if you do check all of your settings and make sure box boxes has there own IP and the gateways for each correspond with the correct router!
You can substitute any of the IP addresses for a Higher Range if you want to, I normally drop my internal equipment a range lower then what My Modems range is, so you could use 192.168.1.10 for box 1 hitting 192.168.1.35 for router 1 and so on, its up to you!
Hope this is of some help, if you have questions please feel free to ask and I will try to answer them as and when I can.
My Modem is a Westell VeraLink 7500 (DSL) I don't think it matters whom the provider is but you will need to do several steps to configure this setup to work correctly. I should imagine you can do the same thing with Cable modems but I have never had access to one so you will need to search on Google or your preferred search engine for the details for your modem.
So to begin, the Equipment you will need is as follows and I will list the reasons why.
(1) Modem of course or this topic is useless.
(2) Router #1
(3) Router #2
Reason for 2 routers is that you need to open up ports on specific IP addresses that the XBOX's will use.
Change Modem to Bridge Mode
First thing your going to need to do is access your modems Admin page and this is where your going to need documentation for your modem, go to the My Network tab and click on connections, then broadband connections and under VC you will need to edit this. Change the protocol to Bridge and click apply, at this time a lot of things will happen, your wireless should shut down (versalink 7500), your DHCP server will shut down.
You should now edit your network settings on your computer and set yourself a static IP for the time being unless your router is distributing your IP, if this is the case ignore the Static IP part.
Next you will need to log into your router #1 and change the internet connection type to PPoE (DSL) or whatever your connection uses, You will be presented with a Username and Password box, enter in your DSL username and your DSL Password and these are the same ones you signed up with.
Click on Save settings, when your router has saved the settings go back and check the status page on the router and see if you have a new assigned IP address from your ISP,
ip.png 66.11K
124 downloadsIt may take a few seconds to appear, if nothing is there hit the refresh on the router screen and check again, if still nothing is there check your username and settings are correct.
Now I set my routers up as 192.168.0.35 = Router1 and 192.168.0.36 = Router2 so I can identify which is which and will make it easier later to get things working! Ok, now do the exact same thing for Router #2, what is weird and I did not know I could do this but each router will pull a separate IP from your ISP... I am not sure if they will like this but it works so I don't understand why they would care, if they did it would be blocked right?
Set up the XBOX's
You will need to assign your XBOX's static IP addresses, you may need a pen and paper to do this so you don't get confused as to what is what, Each box is going to point to one and only one Router!
Box one assign the static IP of 192.168.0.10 subnet is 255.255.255.0 the default gateway would be 192.168.0.35 and change your primary DNS to 192.168.0.35
Box two assign the static IP of 192.168.0.11 subnet is 255.255.255.0 the default gateway would be 192.168.0.36 and change your primary DNS to 192.168.0.36
The DNS settings really don't matter as it can be either router, they both use the same DNS servers! but for this purpose do the above.
Setting up the Ports
Here is the part to set up the routers to allow the open ports, now if you look around on the internet people will tell you that you need x amount of ports open. All you need is three of them and I will tell you the ports in a second. Go to the admin page of router #1 and go to the Applications and gaming tab, once there click on Single port forwarding on newer Cisco routers or Port Range forward on older Cisco (Linksys) routers. Now we need to enter in the ports we need open and pay attention here or you will have a moderate NAT or limited connection to XBOX live.
For the application name I use XBL so I know what its for and for the first port input ext 88 int 88 protocol UDP IP = 192.168.0.10 second port XBL ext 3074 int 3074 BOTH IP = 192.168.0.10 third port XBL ext 3030 int 3030 BOTH IP = 192.168.0.10
Do the Same for Router #2 but you need to change the IP's to 192.168.0.11 for the second XBOX.
It should look something like this...
ports.png 5.66K
119 downloadsSo that is it in a nutshell, once all of these steps have been done go into your XBOX dashboard and check your connection, you should not see any flags, if you do check all of your settings and make sure box boxes has there own IP and the gateways for each correspond with the correct router!
You can substitute any of the IP addresses for a Higher Range if you want to, I normally drop my internal equipment a range lower then what My Modems range is, so you could use 192.168.1.10 for box 1 hitting 192.168.1.35 for router 1 and so on, its up to you!
Hope this is of some help, if you have questions please feel free to ask and I will try to answer them as and when I can.
Do You Have Bad Ping Times?
29 December 2010 - 10:08 PM
Frontier do not cease to amaze me with yet more issues!
So recently I have been having issues with what I am going to call Semi-Disconnects on my DSL service, extreme ping times of 150ms and for DSL that SUCKS!
I made the usual phone calls to get a response of "oh, we will look into that"... yeah right. I ran some software I use to diagnose issues with my connection to find out yet again its Frontiers network causing the issues as seen in the image
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81 downloads
I have also noticed a lot of comments in my modem connection logs like this "WED DEC 29 08:31:10 2010 LAN PC Unable to communicate with DNS Server. (error = 'connection timed out', count = 21)".
So after a little research and testing I found out that Frontiers DNS servers are probably not very reliable, just like there network... anyway I run a local DNS server on my Windows Home Server which I did have set to use the DNS servers of my DSL Modem, obviously this is the issue and now I have reconfigured my DNS server to use the following servers.
8.8.4.4 Googles Open DNS
8.8.8.8 Googles Open DNS
208.67.220.220 OpenDns
208.67.222.222 OpenDns
All of which are free and your more then welcome to drop the Google ones if your worried about Google, anyway I use all 4 so I have some redundancy if some go down and now my Ping times are back to where they should be and every single address is being resolved with no errors in my modem logs!
You may find if your using any ISP being it cable, DSL, Dial up or whatever you may want to at least try changing your DNS settings to reflect some of the above, you may get an increase in speed, OpenDns also provide a free version of the software to do this for you if you do not have a DNS server of your own and can be found at opendns.com.
Why I have a DNS server you may ask! well in a nutshell I have a lot of machines in my home with local resources that I need Domain Name Resolution for hence the DNS, it Caches all external requests speeding up my time as my computer does not need to go looking for it, I get almost a 2ms Response from the server which is fantastic! Enough of my toys already!! lol
Anyways, I hope this may be able to help some of you out there in Puter Land! it helped me and I just wanted to share my findings with you..... Hope someone gets some use from it. Ohh I also added the results of the new DNS settings
snappedJPEG-1.jpg 436.88K
86 downloads
So recently I have been having issues with what I am going to call Semi-Disconnects on my DSL service, extreme ping times of 150ms and for DSL that SUCKS!
I made the usual phone calls to get a response of "oh, we will look into that"... yeah right. I ran some software I use to diagnose issues with my connection to find out yet again its Frontiers network causing the issues as seen in the image
snappedJPEG-0.jpg 464.82K
81 downloads I have also noticed a lot of comments in my modem connection logs like this "WED DEC 29 08:31:10 2010 LAN PC Unable to communicate with DNS Server. (error = 'connection timed out', count = 21)".
So after a little research and testing I found out that Frontiers DNS servers are probably not very reliable, just like there network... anyway I run a local DNS server on my Windows Home Server which I did have set to use the DNS servers of my DSL Modem, obviously this is the issue and now I have reconfigured my DNS server to use the following servers.
8.8.4.4 Googles Open DNS
8.8.8.8 Googles Open DNS
208.67.220.220 OpenDns
208.67.222.222 OpenDns
All of which are free and your more then welcome to drop the Google ones if your worried about Google, anyway I use all 4 so I have some redundancy if some go down and now my Ping times are back to where they should be and every single address is being resolved with no errors in my modem logs!
You may find if your using any ISP being it cable, DSL, Dial up or whatever you may want to at least try changing your DNS settings to reflect some of the above, you may get an increase in speed, OpenDns also provide a free version of the software to do this for you if you do not have a DNS server of your own and can be found at opendns.com.
Why I have a DNS server you may ask! well in a nutshell I have a lot of machines in my home with local resources that I need Domain Name Resolution for hence the DNS, it Caches all external requests speeding up my time as my computer does not need to go looking for it, I get almost a 2ms Response from the server which is fantastic! Enough of my toys already!! lol
Anyways, I hope this may be able to help some of you out there in Puter Land! it helped me and I just wanted to share my findings with you..... Hope someone gets some use from it. Ohh I also added the results of the new DNS settings
snappedJPEG-1.jpg 436.88K
86 downloads
