Setting up NATIVE IPv6 Tunnel

For many, IPv6 is another jargon that is more than Greek to even the IT Managers in some MNC Companies, unless you are using Enterprise Grade Routers such as Cisco, Juniper or even Mushroom Networks. Some of this have been discussed within the HardwareZone Community Forum on IPv6 and there are setup tricks somewhere for Starhub or M1 or Singtel. MyRepublic is a little tad tricky.

However, to many, YouTube has been pretty unpleasant recently due to the buffering and streaming issues and based on my packet sniffers, it's a Advertising and Peering problem that is basically throwing a spanner into the smooth works that is affecting only some cluster of users.

As we have more than one link here, MyRepublic Gamer 150 and Pure 100Mbps package plus Starhub Cable and even YES 4G (don't ask where we are), we find that the network is not clogged up but rather the limits within the CDN delivery network where the CDN pull the cache within the Metro-E Connect aka Cross Connect is jammed up.

Think of it this way

**YOUTUBE CDN (MyR)-------metro--->>>Main Peer (ix) ------>> Master Region----->> USA

Where the CDN is actually sitting within the MyRepublic Cage in the datacenter, the Metro-E cross connect to other data centers within Singapore and since YouTube is the Content Provider, they have to pay for the Cage Hosting, plus the Cross Connect (maybe up to 10Gbe) and goes to their Tier 1 which via Tata/HE/TiNet/Level3 as the preferred carriers.

And for your info, Google pays for the connection to MyRepublic Rack, though I doubt MyRepublic get paid at all.

So even Singtel/Starhub/M1/VQ have to get thru this providers.
Guess where they will go first in IPv4? Tata and NTT in Serangoon North Ave 5 rather than landing in Equinix SG1 where everyone is mostly at.








In IPv6, the preferred routes are HE/L3/TiNet/NTT and since HE is mainly in Equinix SG1, you get it faster since Hurricane Electric has 100's Terrabits of link compared to IPv4 using Level3 which is pretty clogged up anyway since the major hogger is Microsoft and the crappy services.

Going forward, you might now understand where Google is cutting corners just as how in the US where Cross Connect Fees are huge money to be made. Thus why Singtel is always expensive somehow.

Getting faster access to the web

Some have been complaining over numerous channels that at times, YouTube and some other sites load up slowly between 2200hrs and 0100hrs , which we gone into some digging and found out that one of the CDN or Content Delivery Network servers were clogged up within the Singapore Data Networks. These includes of Google and their network servers (YouTube, Gmail, Apps, Android), Microsoft (using Akamai Technologies as their provider) and many more. Others include Facebook, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and basically, a whole lot of content providers.

It is basically a global cluster of distributed caches of data networks placed within cities or countries and the pool is mirrored across. ISP are told to route any queries to the nearest local cache to reduce bandwidth and they on the other end, have nearly terabytes of bandwidth to burst. However, at times, these servers are overloaded, and need to pull out fresh data out of trend from the public domain. This is when the bottle neck comes in.

If everyone understand, usually, a server holds nearly 10TB of Data and this is used for commonly called files, something like our web cache. A city farm holds about 4,000TB of data compared to exabytes of data stored across the globe, with some stored in mainland US or Mainland Europe.

We have to be wise in our usage of data. And bandwidth cost tons of money, about $10,000 per GB per month , actually on a Tier-2 IP-Transit. We know as we have our data farms and ISP usually requires 5 or more peering partners, so multiply that, and you work to over $500,000 a month in data charges at the very least.

So how can U get faster access?

Did you know of IPv6 ? Well, our computers and browsers are told to use IPv6 where possible and if you use up a tunnel through a broker such as Hurricane Electric, you are using their main stay link as the primary connection and since the server locally is jammed up, you simply take the back road and bypass the blockage and take up data from another cluster, say in the US or Europe side. These Transit Carriers have over 100TB of data links to mainland US and UK so us taking a little bit of data... is raindrops in the ocean.

If you are using Static IP and using ASUS N56 or N66 router, that is simple enough to set up. You can configure up the IPv6 Settings here and work it out from there. Results do show that you do get unlimited bandwidth to the US and it loads faster due to less number of hops.

What about Toggle and our mainstream Singapore Channels? Well, we can't do much as Singapore Government is not pushing them hard enough and with horrible data center connections. If it loads too slowly, go complain to IDA and make let the prime minister know about it.

For China, I am hoping someone can test out on 6Fei and let me know...

Thank ya all...
I'm back to my Netflix....

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BBC iPlayer for UK

OK. You got me on this one.
HOW ON EARTH YOU GET THE UK APPS?
You need a UK BANK ACCOUNT or even a Debit Card.

It's complicated but Click2Buy option SHOULD WORK.

I don't guarantee because I got a UK Bank Account.... but for you... I could get you the app downloaded.

Regards

How to Set 5Ghz

Simple Question..
If you cannot see -5Ghz on your adapter for the WiFi.. it's either your setting Wrong or Adapter cannot take it.

Step 1:

Check if you set the band correctly

WiFi> Change Adapter Settings >> Properties >> Configure >> ADVANCED TAB

This will configure your WiFi to correct band as the ASUS N56 or N66 has 5Ghz

Next up is your settings
Go to the router, and check for the Channels.

Don't use AUTO, but if you happen to do so, it's either these settings. Firmware shown here is the LATEST STABLE VERSION.

So match these frequencies.
Because my PC is Kapoot.. it's useless..


So have fun!

More WiFi Woes

Many ask me ..how to know how bad your WiFi is...or is it worth using a normal WiFi? Or must I get DUAL BAND 5Ghz (aka 5G)??

Answer.. it all depends if your frequency band is congested.

I use Xirrus WiFi Inspector and I have the link here :: http://bit.ly/FTTH-WiFi-Inspector . and I don't intend to hotlink due to it being a copy righted software. Use it once and delete it please. This is a standard SOP item issued to SingTel installers working out the frequency jam and avoiding it.

Now then, HOW DOES IT WORK?

After you load it.. it will show what statistics your current WiFi is... and the frequency. Anything more than -35 db is BAD and -60db is a dead use..worse than ADSL.

From this.. it will show what is in range, the frequency , bandwidth and channels in use. The encoding is also shown.. whether I am using WEP or WPA2 , hardware and such. WEP is crackable...using  Aircrack-NG but that is another subject altogether.

If you sort by frequency...then you see either N channel or G channel accordingly or even by 5Ghz bandwidth.. My old MSI VR220 is an ancient machine..so you only get to use 2.4Ghz N channel.

So check it out..and if you cannot see any 5Ghz N channel... maybe your card cannot support it. If you have to use USB ...forget it! You only get about 60Mbps max .usually.... even on the Asus N56U.

Using SingTel Speedtest....the Magix uncongested server... I get a burst up to 75mbps with 30cm away from the router... Can't help as my kids destroyed my LAN port.

Speedtest TELIN Server giving me a bad upload response..maybe due to local circuit issues but the download speed is typical...and differ alot ...

So this gives different results... and I know my neighbour is trying to hack me as I use this PC as my Proxy Server... I give it free access... but limited bandwidth....I don't care much anyway.... as my 150Mbps link won't kill me ....

So.. if you have congested WiFi... Channel Also used up or anything over 8 WiFi AP/SSIDs?? The N66 will give better bandwidth...due to the 5dbm antenna and 5Ghz N channel... it passes thru 4 walls with the end inside a bunker getting 15-30mbps....which is still acceptable.

Teleport - Alpha

Teleport  have launched a few days back and it works.

We have tested with BBC iPlayer for you and it's quite simple.

CHANGE DNS SETTINGS in your router will do the trick.