As an operator of currently one AS112 ANYCAST Node and several NTP POOL servers I know how true and necessary this RFC really is.

Luxembourg’s Regulator just released its latest decision to approve the P&T Luxembourg (EPT) Reference Offer for Very High Bandwith Access Lines based on VDSL and FTTH (fibre to the home).

Visual online already published their own prices for their LuxFibre clone called VOFiber. Prices are 0,09 to 5,00 EUR / month cheaper, the basic offers include an Internet flate rate and the possibility for 3 concurrent calls without any additional fees.

Now I’m curious to see prices from Luxembourg Online, ORANGE, TANGO etc!

Prices for FTTH based LuxFibre prices are as follows:

• Down   30 Mb/s – Up 10 Mb/s: 54,99 EUR incl VAT / month
• Down   50 Mb/s – Up 25 Mb/s: 59,99 EUR incl VAT / month
• Down 100 Mb/s – Up 50Mb/s: 74,99 EUR incl VAT / month

These prices do not contain a volume flat-rate, this is available for 9,99 EUR / month or within the Integral package.

The telephone service comes with the capacity for 1 concurrent call, an upgrade to 3 concurrent calls is available at 6,00 EUR / month. Unfortunately the 3 concurrent calls limit is the absolute maximum, on a fibre access delivering up to 100 Mb/s, limiting telephony to 384 Kb/s seems somewhat arbitrary!

Beside that, the pricing is high compared to our european neighbors:

• in France Orange charges 33,99 EUR / month for 100 Mb/s flat, telephony flat and IPTV
• in Germany Telekom charges 39,95 EUR / month for up to 50 Mb/s flat and telephony flat

So I wanted to go a step further and loaded a full IPv6 routing table via BGP into a linux box. Mine unfortunately had a limit in the kernel, actually net.ipv6.route.max_size was set to 4096. The BGP feed I used delivered 6419 prefixes and only 4068 were loaded into the kernel table.

I added the following line to sysctl.conf

net.ipv6.route.max_size = 32768

and then cleared the BGP session, the kernel routing table now contained 6401 lines. So in case you are running into IPv6 routing issues on your linux box, check for this limit. Also keep an eye on the BGP IPv6 table size, in the future the table might outgrow the limit you have set.

Prior to May 1, 2006 the mobile network operator LUXGSM used the numbering range 028 for its mobile voicemail service. Due to the common practice to omit the leading 0 when dialing a number from abroad, the numbering range 28 was aliased to 028 when called from abroad. This obviously rendered the numbering range 28 unusable for other services.

On November 1, 2006 all the numbers starting with 028 were finally disabled and so was the alias. Now came probably the more difficult part, most foreign operator charged calls to the numbering range 28 as mobile calls, but the range was now available for future usage as geographic fixed network numbers. Over 4,5 years later most network operators to be taken seriously should have updated their billing systems.

I haven’t seen any numbers starting with 28 in the wild, but EPT and VO already hold allocations from the 28 superblock.

You can find more details on the AVM Lab Portal.

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