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Fk the cable Perth <-> Sydney has been dodgy lately. It looks like it had some issues tonight. Can't wait to implement new network design so I don't have to worry about cables be acting dodgy. Sooooooooooooooooon
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Ok I just made a network change to hopefully improve this until we wait until I am able to implement the new network design.
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On a different note, I was doing some Server shopping last night. The Server market is pretty interesting these days, Dell PowerEdge, HPE, Supermicro, ASRock Rack, GIGABYTE, ASUS and more.
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That DDR5 ECC RAM pricing though at the moment, bloody almost as much as the CPU.
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With the new network design I have implemented a stabilizer in the lab too. If the terrestrial or subsea cable is flapping (coming online/offline over and over) the stabilizer can only bring the cable back into production after x amount of minutes. In the real world we will do different minutes or even hours of stability depending on the terrestrial or subsea cable. Some certainly are more prone to flapping than others.
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My mind is obsessed with what I need to do to rollout my new network design when it probably should be more focused on how to market better. Engineers dilemma I guess, but better packet loss should improve organic marketing too so win-win I tell myself?...
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Alright, I just spent the past few hours trying to make improvements to my new network design that has better packet loss on terrestrial and subsea cable failures and my improvements didn't work. Infact they made the failover much worse. I was trying to change the new network design to something that works better in my mind at scale and those changes seems to have removed the packet loss improvements I found. I guess I have to keep the new network design as it is. It is fine, just wanted something that made more sense to my mind at scale and this new design is just something I will understand even better over time. Was worth a shot before fully commiting and rolling out the new network design in the coming months.
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Was listening to the new Muse album - The WOW Signal while playing around in the lab, rolling back the config now.
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Ok I think there was a bug with our Recruit a Friend system where the referrer was not getting credit, but the referred was. This should be fixed now. We shall see.
Not only have I found a way to improve packet loss on terrestrial or subsea cable failure in the lab, but I have also made scalability improvements to our proprietary routing solution that routes specific IP/prefixes via Countries/States. You can have all of the lowest latency terrestrial and subsea cables apart of your network, but if you are not using them for optimal routing then it is kinda pointless. I'll implement the proprietary routing solution after we have implemented the new network design in the coming months.
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Just found out information on a terrestrial cable that is showing potential. Will see how it pans out, secret stuff for now I guess.
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Do you think NBN will enter a death spiral with CPI increases each year? I'll be very curious to see the active services stats and if it is increasing or decreasing each year (even with new house builds and population growth). With 5G alternatives and Starlink alternatives my theory is at some point NBN will get into a death spiral where each CPI increase causes a percentage of the population to decide to move to alternatives or just use/hotspot their phones. This decrease in active services will cause NBN to have to increase the NBN service costs further pouring gas on death spiral? Will be interesting to see how it plays out over time. My theory is your average normie should be fine with 4G/5G on their phones and hot spotting it to devices they need to in time. How does Ozot fit into this theory though? Latency, jitter and packet loss will be best for gaming on fixed line so we should be ok as long as gamers choose us and we continue to provide the best latency, jitter and packet loss. On a side note, this System of a down song reminds me of a Ant Death Spiral for some reason https://youtu.be/GkPna4xPJmE?si=ME7EVIqurAenACR-
Not death spiral territory yet, but it certainly is a Zero Sum market and Peter Thiel wouldn't be proud https://youtu.be/3Fx5Q8xGU8k?si=ctJvZnHy1OIfOTX0 . In a zero sum market all you can really do is take customers from other providers to grow. You see providers doing this by having pricing wars getting to very very low margins and scale. All I care about is providing a network with the lowest latency, jitter, and packet loss though and I'm obsessed with that. Proving that brings us enough customers to be profitable as long as we are sort of competitively priced. Maybe we will have a NVIDIA moment in 10 years time after just focussing on providing the lowest latency, jitter, and packet loss globally some AI system will need that and boom we are the most important network. A bit of delulu can be the solulu.
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I've come up with a new network design that will improve our packet loss even more. I've been testing it in the lab and it has drastically reduced packet loss on terrestrial and subsea link failure. It might take a few months to actually implement this new network design in PROD, but it is certainly one of my higher priorities right now. Trying to get a few things sorted with third parties to make it a reality. Will be great to improve packet loss even more!
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One of the things that has triggered me to come up with a new network design that improves packet loss is due to the instability of the lowest latency cable Perth <-> Sydney. It was having issues about a week ago now and has always not been the most stable terrestrial link and I've been labing theories I've had on how to improve packet loss even more and I finally found something that drastically improved packet loss on terrestrial and subsea cable failures that certainly happen here and there. Fun times and will be happy once this new design is implemented in PROD, will post progress here I guess.
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To measure the packet loss improvements I had to build a secret tool using Rust, that was a project in itself and put me in a position to be able to measure the packet loss improvements down to the ms failover times. The other tools of the market for ms packet loss measurements aren't there right now...
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Bump, will replying to this make this thread at the top again? edit test 123
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Not sure if I jinxed it or not, but it looks like the lowest latency cable Perth <-> Sydney just had a few mins of not looking so great. Certainly highlights to me the need to get this new network design in place to reduce the packet loss drastically on terrestrial cable issues.
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Got Claude Fable to redo our Website, Sign Up, and Portal, and Logo visuals. Hopefully our stuff doesn't look as bad anymore. We shall see what people think in time.
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Just made posts.php with the help of Claude Fable. The intention of this is to be like a Facebook, Instagram, X feed for basically shitposting. They might be long, they might be short, they might have text and images, they might have text and videos, they might be mp3 audio, not sure how this will be used at the moment. Probably network updates and progress tbh. We shall see.
