Freetz

Hello readers -
Switched my isp 4 Month ago and wondered about their network management policy. Initially their DSLAM was configured to provide 90d/40up. Then, it dropped to 30d/12u. At first i thought that my local installation introduced too much attenuation and fixed the cableing, which resulted in attenuations values dropping from 15db (ok thats really not okay) to round about 9db, which should be fine.
But since then - their DSLAM Configuration stayed stale at that reduced rate. Maybe they do configure uplinks - manually, depending on error rates ? Hey - we live in the 21Century ? nah -.. dont get salty, as their service isnt expensive compared to the competition.... Edit: [3 Weeks later] Finally, the link runs stable at acceptable rates for over a week now.
Anyway. Doing another small project. A shell script for my FritzBox, that will allow it to use OpenWrt mips packages. Oh. and yes- correct - in shell, not in bash or zsh, so it can be used with busybox environments. Its my first bigger work in shell scripting - so dont exept wonders.
See https://gist.github.com/arjunae/b77b6eb1857c78ce14af40b38f081131
Basically, it replicates some opkg functionality and uses that knowledge to provide a bootstrap environment which supports using opkg to download other packages later.
Have a nice Time,
Marcedo