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Thursday 05th November 2009

Rubenerd Fun Fact #88

Fun Facts!

Here’s another Rubenerd Fun Fact for all you rabid Official Rubenerd Fun Fact fans. I know you’re out there, I can hear you furrowing your brows and sighing.

Dark fibre sounds like a brand of black rice breakfast cereal.

Thank you.

VPN connections faster than direct ones?

Speaking of recent internet related fail, yesterday a few Twitter friends and I here in Adelaide were having speed and reliability related issues with our respective ISPs. What I thought was weird at the time was using a VPN to connect to my machine in Singapore and getting it to download websites for me and return them to my machine here in Adelaide was an order of magnitude faster than using my machine here in Adelaide to download websites directly!

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Dedicated to my groovy late mum Debra Schade.