Posted 2024-10-25 | Back to blog index
The 10 Gbit fiber option showed up for my address today, on schedule!
Got my line transfer authorization number and applied to an ISP that supports 10 Gbps with a static IP option, so we'll see how long this takes to set up.
ISP is getting back to me in 2 days and then NTT usually takes 2 weeks+ I think to do their end of things.
The NTT contractors showed up today to do the construction outdoors on the poles, the 10 Gbit fiber is now strapped to the outside of my balcony (the indoor construction is scheduled for next week)
They also came in and inspected the jank method the current 1 Gbit fiber comes in through a hole drilled in the aluminium frame of the balcony sliding door and said it would work fine.
The ISP rental router, and the OWC 10Gbit Thunderbolt adapter that I ordered both arrived today! Two more days...
Checking out the HTML manual for this thing. It's very quaint. A good old practical design without a bunch of white space and sans serif
Apparently, if you plug in a landline to the VoIP port, you can change the Wi-Fi settings via touch tone. Practical!!
And yes, this uses a classic HTML FRAMESET.
OK that gives me an idea...
Ok, yep, the manual for this 10 Gbit router works perfectly in Internet Explorer 2.1 for Mac (KanjiTalk 7.5) 😛
So the manual is hosted on modern HTTPS but they offer a ZIP download of it. Page is in ShiftJIS so Unicode not required. All the graphics are GIF rather than PNG.
I also tried it in Netscape 2 but I couldn't easily find a WorldScript/Japanese version of it, and also the padding inside the frames was too big.
Installers just finished, I now have a second, 10 Gbit line into my office!
That'll do, I guess!
At this point it feels like the speed test servers are the bottleneck
Ok cleaned up those dangling fiber ports left by the installers a little bit
Meanwhile some mail arrived… it's the static IP settings! Time to leave the CGNAT dungeon so I can move my hosted stuff off of the old 1 GBit PPPoE connection
And there we go! No more random CGNAT-allowed little stripes of port ranges, we have a whole IP to ourselves!
"This is my IP address. There are many like it, but this one is mine."
It's working! GlobalTalk is now backed by a 10 Gbit connection 😝
(the machine the router is running on is only 10 *M*bit though...)
AppleTalk tunneled over IPv4 tunneled over IPv6… it's tunnels all the way down!
Good bye 1Gbit!
Everything is migrated to the 10 Gbit connection, and the 1 Gbit equipment has been disconnected. Everything still seems to work…
