ninjatutle
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join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | MetroFi
If I were MetroFi, I would go in at night and reclaim all the equipment. Rent a fleet of bucket trucks and Portland would wouldn't even know it happened. It's not like anyone is utilizing it right now. |
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swhx7
Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Not a lot of IPv6 for anyone!
This page »utility.nokia.net/%7Elars/meter/ipv6.html shows the current state of ipv6 adoption, to some degree of statistical estimation.
It seems there's not enough incentive for each ISP or server admin to put it in place. So apparently what's going to happen is, everyone will wait until there's a crisis, or some sort of mandate.
The IPv4 addresses will last another year to a few years, according to the experts. |
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Vchat20
Landing is the REAL challenge
join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
clubs: 
1 edit | If some of these companies who own a buttload of IP's that only really need a small handful can actually be 'green' in terms of IP shortage, it'd certainly prolong the impending crisis quite a bit.
Got quite a number of companies out there who only really realistically need a couple internet-facing IP's yet they could own whole C or B blocks wasting hundreds to tens of thousands of ip's that could go to better use elsewhere. Buy an IP at a time like everyone else from your upstream ISP.
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz |
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tshirt
Premium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
·Comcast
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Re: MetroFi
said by ninjatutle  :If I were MetroFi, I would go in at night and reclaim all the equipment. Rent a fleet of bucket trucks and Portland would wouldn't even know it happened. It's not like anyone is utilizing it right now.
Bad idea!
The network no longer belongs to Metro-Fi (even if they had the resources and will to remove them, as was required by their aggreement with the city of Portland)
Portland needs to 1}find another provider to take over and complete the network (VERY unlikely given the business model failed, the network rarely worked as planned, and the current economic situation.)
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2} pay to have them removed ASAP (each of those AP's is drawing 9-16 watts, 24/7/365 even while doing nothing) A bill that no one is currently paying (well, city of Portland will get stuck for it) |
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swhx7
Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Vchat20
Re: Not a lot of IPv6 for anyone!
Misallocation is the word! Yes, supposedly a few dozen organizations in the U.S. have as many IPs as the whole continent of Africa.
Reallocating these may turn out to be a stopgap, but this only delays the day of reckoning. We really need something that makes it worthwhile for each organization to add ipv6 support.
There are efforts underway to make ipv4 and ipv6 coexist in a way that would smooth the transition. |
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