[clug] NextG results from the Bush

David cottrill.david at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 03:40:51 GMT 2008


For me (Maxon 3G connection - Bigpond branded) the connection varies in 
line with atmospheric problems (rain) and general phone usage - Saturday 
night is a bad time to download and so is lunch time. Using tracert on 
bigpond.com gives about 10-12 hops, depending on whether you have been 
patched into Bigpond qld,vic or nsw (rare) - and I'm near Tharwa- DNS 
varies depending on the connection so I run a local DNS to keep 
everything moving along quickly. If you use out of area DNS queries it 
all runs very slowly.
For those that share a connection, the only solution is Linux and as of 
kernel 2.6.25 the drivers work by default as usbserial. Using Windows to 
share is impossible - the drivers helpfully subvert Winsock so it just 
doesn't work. Prior to 2.6.25 the patch is sinfully easy - add  
16d8:6280  to the list of devices in  /kernel/drivers/usb/airprime .... 
or somewhere around there.

1/4 wavelength 3dB aerial manages (just) around here.


David


Keith Goggin wrote:
> To those people who expressed an interest in my Bigpond 7.2 Home Network 
> Gateway at the November meeting.
>
> I downloaded openSUSE11.1-DVD-x86_64.iso overnight (4.33GB) from a bigpond 
> repository in 4Hours 46Minutes. I think thats about 2 mbps, not bad for the 
> bush.
>
> I have a 14.5db Yagi on the roof and I'm 28kms from the tower at Coutts 
> Crossing on the North Coast of NSW.
>
> I think I seriously understated my ping times, the following is probably 
> typical but it varies quite a bit at different time of the day.
>
> kg at newbox:~> ping -c 10 144.135.18.32
> PING 144.135.18.32 (144.135.18.32) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=91.4 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=86.7 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=92.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=102 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=5 ttl=245 time=98.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=6 ttl=245 time=84.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=7 ttl=245 time=84.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=8 ttl=245 time=84.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=9 ttl=245 time=94.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 144.135.18.32: icmp_seq=10 ttl=245 time=90.8 ms
>
> --- 144.135.18.32 ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9019ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 84.818/91.294/102.796/5.922 ms
>
> newbox:/home/kg # traceroute bigpond.com
> traceroute to bigpond.com (144.135.18.32), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  10.0.0.138 (10.0.0.138)  0.456 ms   0.358 ms   0.361 ms
>  2  172.18.113.205 (172.18.113.205)  756.765 ms   757.287 ms   783.730 ms
>  3  172.18.65.150 (172.18.65.150)  789.826 ms   795.735 ms   821.694 ms
>  4  172.18.117.33 (172.18.117.33)  847.756 ms   844.728 ms   849.771 ms
>  5  172.18.117.44 (172.18.117.44)  846.792 ms   842.861 ms   847.726 ms
>  6  172.18.239.9 (172.18.239.9)  853.771 ms   859.737 ms   856.765 ms
>  7  TenGigabitEthernet8-3.ken17.Sydney.telstra.net (203.45.3.1)  852.929 ms   
> 849.046 ms   853.724 ms
>  8  TenGigabitEthernet8-1.pit1.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.20.39)  98.826 ms   
> 107.790 ms   126.338 ms
>  9  pitt-tcom-r01 (139.130.185.254)  139.835 ms   145.790 ms   150.935 ms
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