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    Building home compute to rent out

    Its a great idea, but the moving parts behind it are a lot harder. Any significantly powerful model still wont fit in a 5090. I dont know this platform, but looked around at a few others, and found users saying their hardware sat idle and connected but without anyone "using" the hardware, so it...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 7

    1Gbps raises a pretty interesting "economies of scale" question too. At the risk of being off-topic, 1gbps pricing is high because someone needs to pay for 1gb of some kind of capacity/IPC/IP transit whatever and that's priced in. But how often is that user using 100% of it? But if you gave...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 7

    Taking a look at it, quite a few of the services seem to be HTTPS-only and, seemingly providing certs from upstream but coming from a cache in your ASN - did you get appliances or is this lancache style? Some/most of those services you listed are HTTPS forced (sadly) so the box might just be...
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 7

    Which services are in it/use it?
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    21 Oct 2026 Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

    Only an update is a complete solution, there is no fully safe mitigation.
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

    And thus, you wont ever be redirected to the best local-CDNs and cache clusters maintained by the ISP. So, dont moan when your downloads/updates are slow, Steam being the top of mind for me. There is even a major privacy argument supporting not using ISP DNS, but its always a trade off...
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    Omarchy Linux

    Omarchy is a great project but it's roots and author are way too deep in strange things for me to have made a jump, but it's somewhat easy to clone the bits you like best into a DIY Arch. Mainly the window manager and the little gimmicks which were seriously user friendly IMO. For newbs, still a...
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

    So are you telling me this ISP is dependent on a single person not being on leave?
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

    Mmm, I retract my comment, you're right. :ROFL: You could log an email anyway, I would.
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

    With that said, this Steam thing happened previously too
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    Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

    This is hardly an official support channel, gooi an email if you are that mad about it.
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    Afrihost Weird Speed Test Results...

    Thanks for the info, another great insight and value of having AfriFolks around here. Isn't PPPOE bad? I refer to people smarter than me https://www.atomic.co.za/fibre-internet/pppoe/ At the very least, your router needs to start doing encapsulation, right?
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    Afrihost Weird Speed Test Results...

    Which leaves us with packet sniffing blah blah, mirrored interfaces. So instead of going through a traffic management device, all packets are duplicated to another device for sniffing and accounting. Pure speculation
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    Afrihost Weird Speed Test Results...

    I doubt every subscriber has an interface on their core router and I doubt they own the infrastructure on the access side either (lets not even consider GPON shared interfaces)
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    Afrihost Weird Speed Test Results...

    You make a super good point, how is this data collected then? @cavedog @Afrigirl
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