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by PaulCM
Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: Pure Fibre Broadband
Topic: Location by ip address
Replies: 4
Views: 6900

Re: Location by ip address

Ok so reading up - seems multiple providers for the geolocation databases or you can run your own. So guess someone like Disney would run one to link your ip to your address or pay for a 3rd party but provide the data. So Google thinks I’m in London, Maxmind thinks I’m in Milton Keynes, but ipv6 in ...
by PaulCM
Tue Jun 11, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: Pure Fibre Broadband
Topic: Location by ip address
Replies: 4
Views: 6900

Location by ip address

Have noticed this for a while, and hasn’t caused us much problem as yet, but my static ip 4 address connects my location to somewhere in Bedfordshire or possibly Mitcham at the moment, but never where I actually live. So is this likely to be a problem for Netflix/Disney et al as they tighten their p...
by PaulCM
Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: Pure Fibre Broadband
Topic: City Fibre Roadmap
Replies: 6
Views: 8526

Re: City Fibre Roadmap

FYI pppoe performance seems to be an issue once you get over 1Gbs for some routers. pfsense/opnsense I know about (admittedly it's a FreeBSD pppoe implementation issue - it's single threaded so can't use multiple cores :( ) Brief google suggests other devices (Ubiquiti?) may have issues. PPPoE is a ...
by PaulCM
Thu May 30, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Pure Fibre Broadband
Topic: City Fibre Roadmap
Replies: 6
Views: 8526

Re: City Fibre Roadmap

It’s the symmetric bit which really appeals ( don’t need the headline download as much now I’ve retired). And would be really great to lose the pppoe bottleneck too!

Any of Aquiss’s NDA things likely to help in Wales?

Paul