Subj : FidoNews submission
To : Alex Galiyev
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Fri May 30 2025 08:37 pm
Re: FidoNews submission
By: Alex Galiyev to Nigel Reed on Fri May 30 2025 17:45:31
> Simply sending 56-byte ICMP echo requests is not enough, this cannot serve
> as evidence.
> You need to send real payloads over a period of a few days to gather some
> evidence.
> I've worked in MSPs my whole career, so I have real-life experience with how
> IPv6 works here in Pennsylvania and IT SUCKS.
bbs@bbs:~$ wget
http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip
(ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com)|80.249.99.148|:80... connected.
Length: 1073725334 (1024M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `1GB.zip'
1GB.zip
100%[============================>] 1024M 17.4MB/s in 77s
2025-05-30 20:30:47 (13.2 MB/s)
bbs@bbs:~$ wget
http://ipv6.download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip
(ipv6.download.thinkbroadband.com)... 2a02:68:1:7::1|:80... connected.
Length: 1073725334 (1024M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `1GB.zip.1'
1GB.zip.1
100%[============================>] 1024M 16.0MB/s in 75s
So a 1GB file was 2 seconds quicker over ipv6 than ipv4 from some random host I found. I suppose this isn't enough of a test either?
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