E71 vs SE P1i + SE W910i

February 7th, 2009

Have been more than one week using E71 (yes, finally i can’t find any phone with better functionality+price than this phone), here is the summary:

Pro:
1. It’s much faster then SE P1i
2. Qwerty keyboard is good, maybe the shift and numeric pad sometimes can be confusing
3. Loudspeaker for music is better than SE walkman series
4. battery is ok, more than one day even using fring connected all the time + gps active
5. very slim

Cons:
1. Nokia seems not good when it is used for modem. Need to restart the phone or laptop (sometimes both) when gprs connection is disconnected not in the proper way
2. SE W910 still has much better sound during the phone call
3. Headset is not as good as SE walkman series
4. A little bit heavy
5. built in GPS guide is not to accurate, in Jakarta, it is always suggesting to use Tol Dalam Kota and JORR. And, the guide is talking too much.

Personal Opinion:
1. Use Garmin XT GPS rather than the built in GPS.
2. Use cable is much more stable than bluetooth for modem connection, but sometimes still need to restart the phone

Unlimited Mobile Broadband

October 2nd, 2008

Idul Fitri Holiday with unlimited mobile broadband from Telkomsel and Indosat M2.

Below are the speed that I get at my home in Surabaya. Both of them provides speed as what I have in my contract.

Telkomsel Flash: my contract is 256 kbps unlimited and will be downgraded to 64 kbps after 3 GB (at this moment, Telkomsel seems does not apply the throttle yet)
flash-unlimited.jpg

Indosat M2: my contract is 1.5 Mbps and will be downgraded to 64 kbps after 3 GB
im2-unlimited.jpg

notes:
- the test was done using multiple http download with Internet download manager
- modem: Huawei e220 (hsdpa 7.2 capable)

./rendo

BGP load test with JunOS 8.5 @ Juniper M7i

September 9th, 2008

Just got a BGP routes injector, and tried it on the Juniper M7i in my testbed. The results is quite good, I think. With 512 MB memory, the routing engine can handle up to 534k BGP prefixes. When the memory reach 96%, junos seems drops all the new BGP routes but still keep the bgp session up to avoid crash. No impact in the forwarding plane, not sure what is going to happen if I have a lot of traffic, maybe next time I’ll use this BGP routes injector and traffic generator at the same time.

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rendo@m7i# run show chassis routing-engine
Routing Engine status:
    Temperature                 23 degrees C / 73 degrees F
    CPU temperature             22 degrees C / 71 degrees F
    DRAM                       512 MB
    Memory utilization          97 percent
    CPU utilization:
      User                       0 percent
      Background                 0 percent
      Kernel                     3 percent
      Interrupt                  1 percent
      Idle                      96 percent
    Model                          RE-5.0
    Serial ID                      xxxxxxxxxxx
    Start time                     2008-09-06 06:46:53 WIT
    Uptime                         3 days, 6 hours, 36 minutes, 37 seconds
    Load averages:                 1 minute   5 minute  15 minute
                                       0.02       0.04       0.01

[edit]
rendo@m7i# run show bgp summary
Groups: 1 Peers: 1 Down peers: 0
Table          Tot Paths  Act Paths Suppressed    History Damp State    Pending
inet.0            536706     534421          0          0          0          0
Peer               AS      InPkt     OutPkt    OutQ   Flaps Last Up/Dwn State|#Active/Received/Damped...
192.168.196.107   200       1977        324       0       0     2:24:47 534421/536706/0      0/0/0

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rendo@m7i#