9 Life Hacks for all of us

A little bit of deviation from techie stuff. For those of you looking to make life better here are some “hacks” I totally agree with. What are you life hacks? What are soem things you do which are related to your tech field? https://medium.com/the-ascent/the-9-best-life-hacks-to-become-unstoppable-87b9587992ac Life-hacking is ridiculously fun when you see what it can do … Read more

Don’t try this at home kids. Automated BGP Optimization

https://radar.qrator.net/blog/as10990-routing-optimization-taleConclusion? Do not try to optimize the routes with automated software – BGP is a distance-vector routing protocol that has proved, throughout the years, its ability to handle the traffic. Software, wanting to “optimize” the system involving thousands of members would never be smart enough to compute all the possible outcomes of such manipulation.

New Undersea Cable – Grace Hopper

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announcing-googles-grace-hopper-subsea-cable-system …We’re excited to announce a new subsea cable—Grace Hopper—which will run between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, providing better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise products.

Patreon Posts

Thank you to all of you who have become Patreon members!!! I appreciate it I have started going back through all of my Patreon posts and tagging them with “patreon” so you can easily look at content you have access to. Sometimes this content is just a visio diagram or a photo. My goal is … Read more

Siklu Case study 80 GHZ Indianapolis Indiana

Some photos from a Siklu 80GHZ deployment in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. This was deployed by On-Ramp Indiana (https://www.ori.net). The problem being solved is moving video files around a network in order to get it to smart screens and projectors. This is a very urban area and wireless was pretty much the only option to get … Read more

Wireless ISP Network IP Scheme

For those of you starting out in the WISP field here is a good overview of a scalable Ip scheme for your WISP network. There are some caveats to this, which we will discuss later. This does not address IPV6, I have done some articles on IPv6 in the past that addresses IPV6. Some benefits … Read more

Mikrotik Audience

This content is for Patreon subscribers of the j2 blog. Please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber for as little as $1 a month. This helps to provide higher quality content, more podcasts, and other goodies on this blog.To view this content, you must be a member of Justin’s Patreon Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon … Read more