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.
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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 I've been in your exact place! It's so frustrating! That reminds me, I need to tell my ISP to set my static IP via the ethernet port in my protectli and switch the Eero 6+ to bridged mode so I can control the firewall properly again. I've just been lazy. 😂
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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'll try to replace their router with a generic VDSL2 one I have around. I think it might be the router that will try to use that "feature".
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Solo meno Europa 🇪🇺 salverà l'Europa.
Ce lo dice in maniera analiticamente provocatoria un cinese 🇨🇳: forse è proprio nelle sue parole la soluzione.
La provocazione di Yuk Hui, filosofo, docente all’Università Erasmus di Rotterdam.
https://www.avvenire.it/agora/cultura/solo-meno-europa-salvera-leuropa-la-provocazione-di-yuk-hui_104738
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@karolherbst it's a bit puzzling, isn't it?
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@tg bought it and liking it.
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(ok, a volte “vita” è parola grossa, ma son sempre attività piacevoli)
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@LianaBrooks I am and it does, both personally and professionally.
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Primary? Yes.
Only? Not really, but mostly.I use #Mastodon as my primary social media, especially as I'm self-hosting my own server. I do visit #Bluesky and #Threads occasionally, but that's like once a week to check for replies and so on to stuff I cross-post via #Fedica.
Is it working for me? Yeah, in the main. Sadly the main reason I'd been using Twitter for pre-Musk was for the World of Warcraft community there. They never really migrated en masse, and very few came over to Mastodon sadly, but the ones that did and stayed are great!
Bsky sees the next amount of activity from me, and that is mainly World of Warcraft and very little else.
Threads is barely used.
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@LianaBrooks Yes; and quite well - it’s less immediate than the hellsites, which means less clickbaiting and a more relaxed experience.
