Posts by Paul Campbell
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That said all my peering that does happen still happens in Auckland - I use VOIP a lot, and I know that after lunch (our time) VOIP to the states (in my case Vonage) seems to become unuseable - there's no reason why any of my local Dunedin calls (I also run a SIP exchange) should go thru the US much less Auckland - of course part of that is because the DSL circuits are not terminated locally because my ISP doesn't yet have hardware in the local exchange - 'cabinetisation' (my neighbourhood this month I'm told) is good for me because it pushes the fibre closer to me, it also means that my ISP probably can't afford to put gear in individual cabinets and will be required to do more complex things in order to peer locally
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ah - that's OK then :-) my traceroute stopped at a SF node but whois on your IP address gave Auckland ....
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I don't understand the NZ peering argument - surely all the local traffic filling up the overseas pipes costs the ISPs more - or is the issue that they made the mistake of hiring marketting drones and this is their way of making themselves seem usefull
(BTW all my packets to/from PA appear to go Dunedin->Auckland->Los Angeles->San Francisco->Auckland or the reverse)
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no surprise and fear ....
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(I should point out that in fact MFAT is negotiating in ACTA and it's web site tells us: "Participants also discussed future engagement with stakeholders and agreed to proceed with such engagement at the domestic level and to identify opportunities for engagement in the future."
Apparently the public are not 'stakeholders' ....
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So questions for the debate (if you need one):
- anything about peering - (for example) Telecom claims we're all moving to VOIP in a few years wouldn't it be a bad thing is half our local calls have to go through LA ?(much less Auckland)
- something about ACTA - there's an international IP treaty being negotiated in secret at the moment, we the public have no idea what's in it - is NZ involved at the moment? should we be? will the public get to see it and debate it before we sign it?
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My plan for the future involves getting McCain elected, having someone say boo!, he croaks and then when no on e's looking as Palin gets sworn in we switch in Tina Fey (work thru the ad for the good stuff)
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a tango - well it was a political meeting - certainly fancy footwork at question time
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Well I wouldn't say 'lovely' ..... but surely of all the parties they understand laissez-faire capitalism? if they cut red tape doesn't that mean that there will be an oversupply (of red tape) on the market - thereby pushing the prices down - we'll all get stuck with our share of this surplus red tape thereby devaluing it's share of our promised $500 to nothing
OTOH just before the following election Labour will snap it up at rock bottom prices for election hoardings and swoop back into power ....
Rodney I tell you it's all going to go horribly wrong ....
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(This is a welcome distraction from 'OMG my husband's entire family in Houston is going to drown!!!' Christ that is a big hurricane.)
in my case it's "OMG my wife's family ....", last time they evacuated, this time they're sitting still, hope they're OK