Subj : Test after move of fidono To : Matthias Hertzog From : Brian Rogers Date : Sun May 16 2021 20:22:00 Hello Matthias; -=> Matthias Hertzog wrote to Brian Rogers <=- MH> I had one of the first installations here in switzerland, the telecom MH> guys even came to see my fidonet installation running over ISDN back MH> then. Nice! MH> ISDN was turned off in switzerland 2-3 years ago. We turned off ISDN at the turn of the century here. In fact, when I was Head of M.I.S. at a large paper factory our ISP gave me a better offer than I had at the shop to join their team so I jumped ship. They had a 2 part project cooking: 1 - migrate ALL ISDN folks to IDSL 2 - configure SDSL/VDSL for new customers. Phase 1 was so easy we aced it in half the projected amount of time we were given. Phase 2 was trickier. Slower speed SDSL worked fine but anything over 512K speed failed. Their engineers screwed up big! After I was given the chance to review their configuration in depth I determined that they were trying to let these little bridge/modem devices handle the rate-shaping of the customer's speed... not so! They had us configuring circuits so that we were trying to push 100 liters (for non-US folk) of water/min through a hose that could only handle 10 liters of water/min. Needless to say these little bridge/modem devices were nicely in their electronic finger gestures telling us our enginnering brainpower was #1 . I told them we needed to rate-shape these higher speed circuits at our edge and feed them only what they needed! I ran a couple tests with employee circuits and then had a customer who was down allow me to test my theory with their circuit. Worked PERFECTLY! What engineers were doing were shoving a 100Mbs data stream into a device that could only handle 1.5Mbs. Modems don't like that. Long term I saved the company millions of dollars in commercial business that they could have and were about to lose. My reward? Termination for speaking up against a gay supervisor who was a bit too flirty for my liking and I don't play ball on his team. .... Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 * Origin: SBBS - Carnage! Hartford, Ct (1:142/103) .