I’ve been losing my mind for almost 4 hours, and I feel like an idiot.
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I’ve been losing my mind for almost 4 hours, and I feel like an idiot.
At first I couldn't understand why the TLS handshake was always taking more than 300 milliseconds. I thought it was a local or server-side issue. Only after about an hour did I test google.com and saw the exact same behavior.
That's when I realized that with my other WAN connection, the timing drops significantly.
So I started going crazy over my MikroTik configuration, convinced it had to be something related to multi-WAN. I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...), which said the problem was probably my neighbor, who had eaten too much pizza.
At that point, I kept spiraling.
Then it hit me that the Vodafone Station has its built-in Wi-Fi disabled, since I manage the network behind it. I could enable it and bypass the MikroTik. I enabled it and ran a direct test.
Bingo. Same problem.
So the issue is upstream. I suspect it’s "Vodafone Rete Sicura", some awful thing I never wanted and that probably does some kind of traffic inspection.
I really can't wait for FTTH to arrive so I can finally get rid of this stuff.
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I’ve been losing my mind for almost 4 hours, and I feel like an idiot.
At first I couldn't understand why the TLS handshake was always taking more than 300 milliseconds. I thought it was a local or server-side issue. Only after about an hour did I test google.com and saw the exact same behavior.
That's when I realized that with my other WAN connection, the timing drops significantly.
So I started going crazy over my MikroTik configuration, convinced it had to be something related to multi-WAN. I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...), which said the problem was probably my neighbor, who had eaten too much pizza.
At that point, I kept spiraling.
Then it hit me that the Vodafone Station has its built-in Wi-Fi disabled, since I manage the network behind it. I could enable it and bypass the MikroTik. I enabled it and ran a direct test.
Bingo. Same problem.
So the issue is upstream. I suspect it’s "Vodafone Rete Sicura", some awful thing I never wanted and that probably does some kind of traffic inspection.
I really can't wait for FTTH to arrive so I can finally get rid of this stuff.
@stefano Disgusting! Today it's a luxury to have a real and untempered internet connection. About 16 years ago I saw Vodafone compressing my images which I uploaded to an FTP server. It's just stupid...
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@stefano Disgusting! Today it's a luxury to have a real and untempered internet connection. About 16 years ago I saw Vodafone compressing my images which I uploaded to an FTP server. It's just stupid...
@finn I agree. I don't need Vodafone to sniff my traffic and decide if it's "secure" or not. Years ago that service wasn't Active by default. Then something changed and I started to see, from time to time, those "this site isn't secure" pages. I asked to disable it and they did it. But I remember that I read somewhere they're reenabling it and now it cannot be disabled as "it's for our security".
All I ask is that they stop messing with my traffic.
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@finn I agree. I don't need Vodafone to sniff my traffic and decide if it's "secure" or not. Years ago that service wasn't Active by default. Then something changed and I started to see, from time to time, those "this site isn't secure" pages. I asked to disable it and they did it. But I remember that I read somewhere they're reenabling it and now it cannot be disabled as "it's for our security".
All I ask is that they stop messing with my traffic.
@stefano Amen brother! Just give us pure unfiltered internet. If someone wants any "security extras" they can opt-in for that.
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I’ve been losing my mind for almost 4 hours, and I feel like an idiot.
At first I couldn't understand why the TLS handshake was always taking more than 300 milliseconds. I thought it was a local or server-side issue. Only after about an hour did I test google.com and saw the exact same behavior.
That's when I realized that with my other WAN connection, the timing drops significantly.
So I started going crazy over my MikroTik configuration, convinced it had to be something related to multi-WAN. I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...), which said the problem was probably my neighbor, who had eaten too much pizza.
At that point, I kept spiraling.
Then it hit me that the Vodafone Station has its built-in Wi-Fi disabled, since I manage the network behind it. I could enable it and bypass the MikroTik. I enabled it and ran a direct test.
Bingo. Same problem.
So the issue is upstream. I suspect it’s "Vodafone Rete Sicura", some awful thing I never wanted and that probably does some kind of traffic inspection.
I really can't wait for FTTH to arrive so I can finally get rid of this stuff.
> I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...)
LLMs being used as a search engine "on steroids" is actually a good use case, IMHO.
You don't have to blindly trust the output, but instead have something to keep searching for an answer.
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I’ve been losing my mind for almost 4 hours, and I feel like an idiot.
At first I couldn't understand why the TLS handshake was always taking more than 300 milliseconds. I thought it was a local or server-side issue. Only after about an hour did I test google.com and saw the exact same behavior.
That's when I realized that with my other WAN connection, the timing drops significantly.
So I started going crazy over my MikroTik configuration, convinced it had to be something related to multi-WAN. I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...), which said the problem was probably my neighbor, who had eaten too much pizza.
At that point, I kept spiraling.
Then it hit me that the Vodafone Station has its built-in Wi-Fi disabled, since I manage the network behind it. I could enable it and bypass the MikroTik. I enabled it and ran a direct test.
Bingo. Same problem.
So the issue is upstream. I suspect it’s "Vodafone Rete Sicura", some awful thing I never wanted and that probably does some kind of traffic inspection.
I really can't wait for FTTH to arrive so I can finally get rid of this stuff.
@stefano residential line ?
Here in Belgium they filter out the ports 80/443 by default: "security measure".
> I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...),
to realize that it doesn't help. :)
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Vedi che ora va :D
Anni e anni fa cambiai la scheda wifi, in origine era solo wifi, poi ne misi usa col bluetooth ma fino ad oggi era senza antenna e quindi non prendeva niente neanche da vicino
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Ho aggiunto anche l'antenna per il bluetooth visto che c'ero
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@stefano residential line ?
Here in Belgium they filter out the ports 80/443 by default: "security measure".
> I even briefly asked an AI (I know, I know...),
to realize that it doesn't help. :)
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Chi mai poteva rimontare un portatile senza collegare la ventola? 🤦
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@dansup WAFRN is a fantastic environment: as rubbery as Misskey, but (almost) as versatile as Friendica, and it works great with both Lemmy and NodeBB groups. The integration with Bluesky was truly brilliant.
Now, however, we need anyone interested in WAFRN to support this project by funding it and creating new instances (and without putting too much pressure on @gabboman and the development staff).
Happy 2026, everyone!
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@victorgijsbers I've managed to implement a variant of your idea using a Table of Book Titles (so I finally learned how tables are used) and I really like the effect! I also managed to trigger an Inform compiler bug by making the table too large, but I think you've see my post about that already. The problem is, I'm sure now my wife will try to make the character pick one of the books by title, so I need to replace the "I can't see any such thing" with an appropriate error message!
