[cfarm-users] jing at jing.rocks

[Luke Yasuda]

On 2025-11-18 20:34, Gregor Riepl via cfarm-users wrote:
>> I apologize for the long downtime and not having been able to announce 
>> it on cfarm-users (I only sent an email to cfarm-admins). I moved to a 
>> new place so the servers came with me. The "too hot and not enough 
>> A/C" situation has gone, I personally picked a very powerful air 
>> conditioning unit, and the summer has ended here in Tokyo. And the HBA 
>> turns out to be OK; it has not been melted due to the heat. It just 
>> needed to be reseated.
> 
> That's good to hear!
> Let's hope the new AC will be up to the task next year.
> 
>> This ends the good news; the bad news is, the networking is 
>> suboptimal. My new home only has 320Mbps over the tv cable for now. 
>> I'll ask the ISP to evaluate if they can get me 10Gbps fiber optic 
>> line, in a few months. The actual upload speed seems to be capped at 
>> 10~15Mbps. Ah the cruel reality of residential internet. And the worst 
>> thing is that this ISP doesn't offer static IP. So I rented a VPS 
>> (gandi.net) and use ssh port forwarding to forward all the ports there 
>> (see the IP addresses above). The unique network setup has been tested 
>> to work: there was one user who contacted me in private, who wanted to 
>> retrieve some files from cfarm422. In case anyone wants to transfer 
>> large amount of files out from cfarm420~430, it's best to use rsync 
>> over ssh. If I'm lucky, this whole networking mess can be resolved in 
>> 5~6 months.
> 
> And to think that Japan was one of the first places to offer FTTH at 
> affordable prices... I used to dream about moving there for exactly 
> this reason many, many years ago.
> 
> Why does it take half a year to switch ISPs though? That seems a bit 
> extreme.

I live in a very old "condominium apartment complex" instead of a house. 
Getting that fiber optic cable to my home may need some construction 
work that cannot be done in a short time and requires ISP technician 
assessment. ISPs do not hire enough technicians and the wait time is 
usually 1-3 months long. This does not count in the time needed to get 
the approval to change ISP from the home owner association. Apparently I 
need an approval for that because "the fiber optic line goes through the 
public space". The current pre-approved ISP does not offer static IP.

When I rented an apartment, I needed my landlord's approval, even though 
the landlord was cool with my 10G line, I still had to wait for 2 months 
for ISP's technician to come. That was fast compared to the average.

I wonder if it is faster if I lay down the fiber optic cable myself all 
the way to ISP's datacenter.

Cheers,

-- 
Luke Yasuda
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