Much welcome BGP changes in Mikrotik routeros 7.19beta

5G now can even make weather forecasts less accurate

From the WTF files https://www.wired.com/story/5g-networks-could-throw-weather-forecasting-into-chaos On Capitol Hill Thursday, NOAA’s acting chief, Neil Jacobs, said that interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of forecasts by 30 percent. That’s equivalent, he said, to the quality of weather predictions four decades ago. …

Podcast: Cameron Kilton from Alpha and I talk about LTE

Cameron Kilton from Alpha Wireless and i sit down at the 2019 Indiana ISP meeting and talk about LTE and Wireless operators.  Pardon the rough beginning. the room we were in had a flickering light that took me by surprise …

Ubiquiti releases EdgeMAX EdgeSwitch software 1.8.2

From their announcement A new software release for EdgeSwitch (all current models) is available here: EdgeSwitch 1G switch models: ES-48-750W, ES-48-500W, ES-24-500W, ES-24-250W, ES-48-Lite, ES-24-Lite, ES-16-150W, ES-12F,ES-8-150W, EP-S16. Normal version: https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/EdgeSwitch/v1.8.2/ES-eswh.v1.8.2.5192445.stk (SHA1: b1f66416276ef7de9abd5d2c50fa79b75d1bfe49) (GPL archive) LITE version: https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/EdgeSwitch/v1.8.2/ES-eswh.v1.8.2-lite.5192445.stk (SHA1: 47c11f3ce06d77e450a480877e06d2e72a6c6192) Mib files: https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/EdgeSwitch/v1.8.2/ES-eswh.v1.8.2.5192445-mibs.tar.gz (SHA1: 85b3acb15923b94f25bc965a98f72d24a4dac1f1) EdgeSwitch 10G switch model: ES-16-XG Normal …

Remote Peering

Martin J. Levy from Cloudflare did a presentation about remote peering possibly being a bad thing. In this presentation, he brings up several valid points. https://www.globalpeeringforum.org/pastEvents/gpf14/presentations/Wed_2_MartinLevy_remote_peering_is_bad_for.pdf Some thoughts of my own. Yes, remote peering is happening.  One thing touched upon …