A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile.
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A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile.
Their 5G Home Internet service has worked FLAWLESSLY (within the limits of LTE) and at a reasonable price for the year or so I've used it as a backup for Spectrum coax, and this week, I pulled the trigger on T-Mobile fiber.
The installer was a pro, they installed only two days later, yay. Unfortunately, while the modem is connected and SOME routes work, every major DC refuses to talk to me.
So no YouTube, Prime, etc.
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A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile.
Their 5G Home Internet service has worked FLAWLESSLY (within the limits of LTE) and at a reasonable price for the year or so I've used it as a backup for Spectrum coax, and this week, I pulled the trigger on T-Mobile fiber.
The installer was a pro, they installed only two days later, yay. Unfortunately, while the modem is connected and SOME routes work, every major DC refuses to talk to me.
So no YouTube, Prime, etc.
Meanwhile, connections to my own website work flawlessly, as do most Internet speed test sites.
I am NOT looking forward to discussing this with whatever the hell they're using for Tier 1 support later.
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Meanwhile, connections to my own website work flawlessly, as do most Internet speed test sites.
I am NOT looking forward to discussing this with whatever the hell they're using for Tier 1 support later.
@jimsalter I'm not looking forward to you having to troubleshoot it, but I do appreciate you talking about it - technical hands-on experience with how ISPs treat folks is valuable.
If you wind up asking them for a public IP address, fingers crossed there - it looks like it might be a $10/month charge..?
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A bit of the blush is already off my nascent love affair with T-Mobile.
Their 5G Home Internet service has worked FLAWLESSLY (within the limits of LTE) and at a reasonable price for the year or so I've used it as a backup for Spectrum coax, and this week, I pulled the trigger on T-Mobile fiber.
The installer was a pro, they installed only two days later, yay. Unfortunately, while the modem is connected and SOME routes work, every major DC refuses to talk to me.
So no YouTube, Prime, etc.
@jimsalter woke up in Virginia with no internet from T-Mobile. Got an email to let me know that the service is experiencing outages. Based on research, it seems it’s at least a multiple state outage.
This coming from someone whose reliable, fiber internet service was bought by T-Mobile last year…
I wish you luck.
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@jimsalter woke up in Virginia with no internet from T-Mobile. Got an email to let me know that the service is experiencing outages. Based on research, it seems it’s at least a multiple state outage.
This coming from someone whose reliable, fiber internet service was bought by T-Mobile last year…
I wish you luck.
@sunsetmountains I had lunch with a convention founder earlier this afternoon, and he told me he'd received multiple T-mobile fiber reports from the kinds of folks who give presentations.
All who observed in detail observed the same thing I did: it shit the bed at roughly 1AM ET last night, and many routes are functional but most are not.
For example, when connected to the fiber, I can connect to jrs-s.net flawlessly, and even pass most internet speed tests.
But YouTube, Prime, Disney+? Nope.
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@sunsetmountains I had lunch with a convention founder earlier this afternoon, and he told me he'd received multiple T-mobile fiber reports from the kinds of folks who give presentations.
All who observed in detail observed the same thing I did: it shit the bed at roughly 1AM ET last night, and many routes are functional but most are not.
For example, when connected to the fiber, I can connect to jrs-s.net flawlessly, and even pass most internet speed tests.
But YouTube, Prime, Disney+? Nope.
@sunsetmountains the problem goes FAR beyond just a handful of streaming services, but what I'm seeing is essentially "anything that is consumer-facing and likely to be protected by eg CloudFlare ain't gonna work."
So add the likes of Meta to that list of things that won't work. Like I said, damn near anything that expects to be 100% real-human-facing. It's almost like their ASNs got flagged as being datacenter instead of last-mile, not that I'm saying definitively "that's what happened."
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@sunsetmountains the problem goes FAR beyond just a handful of streaming services, but what I'm seeing is essentially "anything that is consumer-facing and likely to be protected by eg CloudFlare ain't gonna work."
So add the likes of Meta to that list of things that won't work. Like I said, damn near anything that expects to be 100% real-human-facing. It's almost like their ASNs got flagged as being datacenter instead of last-mile, not that I'm saying definitively "that's what happened."
@jimsalter @sunsetmountains as someone who’s seen similar behaviour in the past…is your website IPv6 enabled? Cos most of the things you listed are, and a bodged IPv6 implementation/change still feels pretty likely as it cruises through its third decade of being “a thing”
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@pauldoo yeah, let me know how nice that is after you spend a week with it.
If you wanted to blackhole nearly every consumer-facing service, it's not that hard to do. Just do it. You don't need a major ISP to ACCIDENTALLY do it for you.
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@jimsalter @sunsetmountains as someone who’s seen similar behaviour in the past…is your website IPv6 enabled? Cos most of the things you listed are, and a bodged IPv6 implementation/change still feels pretty likely as it cruises through its third decade of being “a thing”
@_calmdowndear @sunsetmountains I can observe the behavior by interacting directly with raw IPv4 addresses. Not a v6 issue, unless it's trying to forcibly 4to6 all my content on the other side of the demarc (which seems... unlikely).
Hell, I'm not even getting a v6 *lease* from them.
