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Same here, 128kbs up, and use a Cisco Router with QOS to give the phone line the packets. QOS routers is probably the Number 1 tech hurdle in delivering VOIP to the masses.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/43664

Link Here is the mirror of the questions.

The customer service is what will doom Earthlink, not the R&D to fix network routing problems.

To quote what is on DSL Reports "To dodge potential legal bullets, the company notes SIPShare is NOT a supported EarthLink product. 'It is more than anything else a manifestation of an idea,' says the company. 'So if you call our Tech Support with SIPshare questions, they will have no idea what you are talking about. So please, if you use SIPshare, you're on your own.'"

Cogeco A smaller Canadian Highspeed cable company is passing on letters for Kazaa use and get this Bittorrent, Direct connect, Donkey(emule). Once thought to be impossible now being threatened. I Have recieved one and numourus otheres I know have also got emails.(email posted DSLreports) I thought canada was protected from being taken advantage of from big companies like MGM They should have no authority to do anything here in Canada. yet Cogeco is passing these letters on and threatening possible actions.
Can they do this in canada? I thought like kazaa they had to download the entire file from you before they could sumit a request are they randomly targeting users cause last time I checked I would have to leave my bittorrent on and running for a long while before I gave someone 100%.
Cogeco maybe falling into a legal trap by reponding to such letters by possibly helping grow the fear of a lawsuit. They fear actions(weather or not the companies have a right or not in canda) and put the stress on the user. Has any thing happened beyond the letter? Rogers users and sympatico users don't seem to be effected. is this a way to go after the little guy first or is the big wigs like rogers and sympatico just ignoring the requests does anyone out there know? Anyone else recieve a threat letter?

For a list of all (well, most) clients for all platforms, you can check out the FAQ

I don't know if this is all that impossible. There are hubs out there that attempt to allow acces every major univeristy in the country. It is common for such hubs to even deny access to people wanting to use the Neo-Modus client and limit access to only those using DC++.

Also, I'm pretty sure Neo-Modus only tracks their own NMDC hubs. What about people running Y-Hub, PtokaX, and SDCH hubs? Read here.

I would be very cautious about being an early adopter of this unproven technology. The equipment is first gen, the service techs are green and the speed doesn't sound very impressive. If that's all that's available, then I'd make sure I didn't get locked into a contract if I were you.

I went to DSL Reports and they don't even list it as a category yet, FYI.

I should also note that while the power grid is still pretty sturdy, this speaks nothing of equipment failures, and it would seem that power goes out more often than land-line phone service or cable from what I've seen. Of course, I'm basing this on Las Vegas where most of the lines are below-ground, so your results may vary.

It all boils down to this: are you willing to accept the headaches of this new technology, and is the price/performance compelling enough to warrant that risk? Of course, I think this applies to all new technology. *has flashbacks of the "bad old days" of cable modems*

Thread - SSH problems

mid july or so there were a bunch of random automated-looking and weak looking ssh login attempts all over the place ....

threads on the full disclosure mailing list archives and dslreports forums about that ....

wonder if this is what the topic poster was encountering?

That's exactly what I did when I went looking for a house in the Seattle, WA area. When we narrowed down our choices to a few houses, we had our agent approach the seller's agent asking for permission to check if DSL service was available to that current number. In this area it is normal for sellers to be present when buyers view a house (though I find this somewhat awkward both as a buyer and as a seller and when selling do the prospective buyers and their agent the curtesy of leaving for 20-30 minutes). So, it is easy to ask, "Do you have DSL?" If they say "yes", we then put immediate DSL availability as a contingency in our offer. If they say no, we ask permission to use their current phone number to find out. We have never been refused, though we make it very clear that's the only reason we want the number, and are willing to produce a written statement on the spot to that effect. In fact, you don't need the whole phone number -- just enough to identify the CO: the NPA-NXX (area code and first three digits of the number), though most on-line lookup apps insist on all seven digits of the number.

Now, just because the current owners have DSL or can get DSL does not mean you can: sometimes more than one CO serves a particular residential area (at least in some parts of Canada -- not sure anout the U.S. and they do occasionally run out of lines. Still, it is encouraging.

Finally, though the telco droid generally won't tell you where DSL is available (generally because they just have a phone number to availability mapping application), you can find out what COs serve which areas with a bit of Googling. You can then find out which COs have deployed DSL. It used to be the case that you then had to know which ISPs had DSLAMs colocated in the CO's. DSL Reports is a good place to look for more information on this. These days, the telco generally rolls out DSL access and can backhaul to any ISP that offers DSL -- the difference relates to who owns the DSLAMs: the telco or ISP. If the telco owns the DSLAM you pay them separately from the ISP, unless the telco has subcontracted DSL package sales to that ISP (but this is usually for an "Intarweb" style service -- no static IP and no inbound connections permitted -- often what the telco offers directly when it acts as the ISP. It's the difference between a $30/month and an $80/month service. You generally have to contact the telco about "advanced data services" which are completely different from "Residential DSL" (this being Verizon-speak, for example).

If you do contact the telco's data service department, you'll often get far more friendly and useful information: which CO's are provisioned, etc. -- generally enough to get your ISP of choice to handle their end of things. Verizon was actually helpful here, in my case (though getting the link hot was delayed twice for a total of a two week extra wait over the 5 days initially promissed). (Setting up the particular long distance plans was another story: getting dinged $0.70/minute instead of $0.07/minute for calls to Soviet Canuckistan (Canada) was not fun).

What I have found is this: it appears that if you're willing to spend $40-$45 a month just for the DSLAM port and backhaul to your ISP, as opposed to the telco's resold $19.95 or $29.95 Intarweb DSL service, they seam much more interested in being helpful. The biggest headache I encountered in knowing which department I needed to contact within Verizon: local, long-distance, Intarweb DSL, and Advanced Data Services appear to be so separate from each other and uncoordinated. It took a while to find out, for example, that I should be speaking to the "Advanced Data Services" department instead of the "DSL saled droid" (who didn't even know of the Advanced Data Services department). In fact, it

well, if you're going with Linksys, you may have to use 3rd party firmware to boost the signals (info on third party firmware for Linksys info here). The very common WRT-54G wireless router runs at 19mw and at that power, barely penetrates a hollow 2 foot wooden wall with no insulation (and drops the signal periodically), at least from my personal experience.

Installing Sveasoft, OpenWRT, or WiFi box firmware allows you to boost the signal to 84mw. I've read to avoid the full 84mw, as it can damage hardware in extended use, but I've also read that this is still in the legal range for the device... even wireless A indoor/outdoor is 250mW. (and I think g is up to 4W).

No, he's giving it to his father to manage in his "Foundation" - which is a stock laundering scheme.

How much of that $3 billion will ever actually be given out by said Foundation?

Go here and learn something.

Or here for more analysis.

I wonder if DSLreports can handle a slashdotting. I guess we're about to find out. I've Been going there for a few years and the site has always been up.

Check out the large increase of traffic here:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/stats/mrtg/eth0/et h0.html

Well, a quick google search and here's what I found out.
Version SCPH5000 and later support it for DVDs. Earlier versions don't.

So if you're going to buy a ps2 there ya go. Altho, I'd still say buy a stand alone DVD player. ;)

This thread suggests that they're the same company, or at least that they share phone numbers. And that Pegasus is involved in alot of spamming.

Today whois shows two different towns, but the phone number is still in the same town many miles away.

Weird, whacky stuff.

For $49.95/Month - 30Gb + $1.50 for every GB over 30
For $69.96/Month - 55Gb + $1.50 for every GB over 55
For $99.95/Month - 95Gb + $0.80 for every GB over 95

What they're doing looks similar to what Bell Canada is doing in some of their downtown markets. Bell Canada has been rolling out VDSL services by installing hardware into condos in Toronto. They aren't using this to give people superfast broadband though (I mean beyond the 4mbps they already have available), but instead to offer their version of Digital TV to compete with the likes of Rogers Cable. Bell is eventually migrating away from their sattelite based ExpressVu service to an ExpressVu service based on VDSL. Check out Bell's ExpressVu site, and also another site with info.

I completely agree. I use SBC DSL for a office in San Diego, CA. The speed is great, and the connection itself is fairly reliable, however, everything past that needs a lot of work. Their mail servers refuse about 15% of all attempted connections, and they go down completely for days at a time about once every 6 months. Their DNS servers went down for 24 hours once for no apparent reason. The worst part is a call to their support/customer service is always a complete waste of time. I have COX cable at home, the speed is about the same, but the service has none of the other issues, and they have very a helpful support staff.

Not that amazing - this company are able to make this product product without any known manufacturing facilities!

Dude, you don't have to install Yahoo anything. My SBC DSL pre-dated the Yahoo deal and although they keep sending me CDs and tell me I'm missing all of the great Yahoo features, I never installed it. Everything works peachy. You don't even have to load any software to establish your SBC DSL connectivity..

If the SBC/Yahoo email won't support POP access (I never checked) you can still use email that does that does from Yahoo mail plus or another fine email provider.

YeahIknow you shoudn't have to pay over and above. It's a good idea anyway since you can change they way you connect without having to give up your email address. The Yahoo email address you get with SBC/Yahoo DSL goes away if you cancel SBC DSL.

You might also support various file sharing protocols with one visible machine.

A lot of us Canadians love to hate Rogers -- and I don't use Rogers Internet (I use DSL):

Incidentially, according to DSLReports, incidentally a few users are getting lucky where Rogers actually called them (huh?) and offered a free upgrade to DOCSIS 2.0 compatible cable modems. Some users' download speeds actually doubled.

According to forums on this site, Rogers finished deploying a new 850 Mhz GSM cellphone network at the end of December 2003 where there's been great improvements (i.e. some HowardForums.com claims from worse than Fido/Bell/Telus to better than Fido/Bell/Telus). Pity you need a new cellphone to take advantage of the new reception and less dropped calls. There were a couple of reports at the HowardForums of big jumps in receptions in lots of areas, 1 bar reception in Toronto Union station jumped to 5 bars with new 850 Mhz GSM phone. This is attributable to 850 Mhz penetrating buildings and foilage much better than 1900 Mhz. (On HowardForums.com, search for "850 improvement" (click here), perhaps combined with the term "Mad Seeg", a humorous term used by dozens of posters there, slang phrase for "amazing signal")

It's a little easier to get lucky with cable Internet and cellphones now with them, and maybe a couple less unlucky Rogers victims, but Rogers customer service is still MIA. At least, Rogers cellphone reception is finally now easier to get than Rogers customer service.

ln -sf /dev/random /dev/RogersCustomerService

If you go to DSLreports.com you can see a lot of posts from people who brag about using 200+GB of download, and nearly equal that of upload, each month. Most of them are trading a lot of movie files. That goes far beyond what they typical home user would be using.

I think someone who is using that much bandwidth should pay a much higher rate. Because people like that are going to drive prices up for all of us. Just like the bad drivers pay more on car insurance.

Some people think that just because they are given the blank check (no caps set) they should be able to take as much as they wanted. That's what these two fatties thought too. Take as much as you want, but when other people can't get their fair share, you're taking too much.

See analysis by Eric Howes:

Unfortunately, the majority of those "software principles" address only the amount and type of information provided, not the actual practices through which that information is delivered. While Google's document does insist on "clear" and "conspicuous" notice, it largely neglects to lay out just what that would mean. Indeed, I strongly suspect that companies like Gator and WhenU would claim that they already abide by these principles and point to their EULAs, which are presented to users during the installation of Gator, SaveNow, and their other software applications. In my own analysis of the automated, online installation of C2 Media's Lop.com software (see www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/dbd-anatomy.. ), it was clear that C2 Media's collection of EULAs and privacy policies had in fact covered all of the major functionality and behavior of the software installed, just as Google's "software principles" insist.

DSLReports.com maintains a forum for VoIP providers as well as numerous reviews of Vonage, Packet8, and lots of others.

DSLReports.com maintains a forum for VoIP providers as well as numerous reviews of Vonage, Packet8, and lots of others.

DSLReports.com maintains a forum for VoIP providers as well as numerous reviews of Vonage, Packet8, and lots of others.

DSLReports.com maintains a forum for VoIP providers as well as numerous reviews of Vonage, Packet8, and lots of others.

You need to find a better ISP.

I use an high-quality, local ISP, and they have an amazingly reasonable TOS. Most of their DSL offerings give static IP addrs (4-8), and they generally don't care if you run servers on the DSL line (although filling the pipe 24x7 is a no-no). This includes non-business accounts. Ports aren't blocked, except maybe temporarily during some of the bad worm/virus outbreaks (your service may be temporarily cutoff if you leave an infected PC connected to the DSL line, though). I can usually quickly talk to an actual human when calling support, and they're even clueful. A couple years back, I actually had an intelligent conversation with them regarding ISDN and an old Ascend Pipeline 50 (what was even more shocking was that a real human actually answered on the second ring, and that I didn't even get to any kind of voice menu).

They're not perfect, although, compared to the "horror stories" that you see here, they may certainly seem so.

Also, while they don't officially support linux (their user shell server is linux, though), they're more than happy to give out the DNS and mail settings that you need to setup linux. (I'm also lucky enough to get 6Mbps DSL, whoo-hoo! Unfortunately, they're no longer offering it, although they still have a 1.5-3Mbps service.)

Bottom line: look for a new ISP. I suggest looking on DSL reports.

Attention shadfc!

The site you were looking for was NOT ask.slashdot.org, but DSL Reports (Cox HSI forums)

Thank you for your cooperation.

Then let me be the first to tell you. CAN-SPAM is likely to make spam worse. It was written by the DMA, designed to legalize their spam runs. It specifically tells companies "It's OK to spam, as long as you do it this way".

However, I'm not the first to say this, by a long shot. Using google, I can find numerous articles to that effect. Here are a few.

http://www.mailutilities.com/news/archive/163/2378 .html
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/43363
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1151902
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/09/canspam_me ans_we_can_spam/
http://www.wordsoup.com/word/archives/001243.html

There are many more examples.

Are there phone companies -- regular or VoIP -- that folks use on a small scale, such as Cavilier, that anyone can recommend?

Any good sites -- something like Broadband/DSL Reports but for phone/VoIP issues?

What you need is a router that provides bandwidth priority to some connections and not others

You mean QOS? about qos

I think its worth pointing out that the mouse and keyboard combo looks like an interestingly designed piece of technology. Its shaped so that the entire thing can sit on your lap comfortably. The keyboard appears to be adjustible and the thing itself acts as the mouse mat. I would be slightly concerned that the mouse mat area is too close to the keyboard so perhaps that limits its use. IGN has a CGI mockup of it here and a real once can be seen in the BBC article linked too in the story.

Hardware aside I haven't actually seen any reports of software that runs on the thing. Did anyone who attend E3 get the chance to playtest one? As far as I can tell it was only the box on display and it may of only had a basic running demo.

The last thing I want to mention is about their distribution model. They claim they want to make software downloadable via broadband internet connections. Thats all fair and well but does anyone out there remember The Sega Channel? Long story short it was a cable channel that allowed you to download Genesis games directly onto your console. I don't believe it faired to well but given the popularity of XBox live and PS2 Online it shows that there is more of a likely uptake.

BTW, anyone interested in the Sega channel should have a look here and here.

-- Enditallnow

Not to be too incredibly nitpicky (but, after all, this is slashdot...), but 30,000 feet = 9,144 meters = 9.144 km. According to this, satellite ping times for a two-way link run about 690-1150ms (call it around a second). So, if the distance to the satellite is now 27,000 km, you're probably going to have some difference, but as you say, probably not enough to matter. Plus, you're probably going to loose whatever small latency advantage you get from the fact that the sat antenna has to reorient itself anytime the aircraft makes a course adjustment.

You have to be dialed up to get incoming calls, but that's not too bad.

No, you really can't.

Here in New York, we also have steep fines for the offenses you mention. The fine for honking, "except for danger", is $350 in New York City. A drunk's car is seized and his license suspended. We have a system of points analogous to your demerits. We also have compulsory insurance, and premium for that goes through the roof after you've received these points. An 18 year old male can barely afford insurance even with a clean record. And we don't see many younger drivers anymore thanks to graduated licensing, which restricts when and where younger people can drive, as well as how many passengers they can carry.

We've had these regulations for years now. And you know what? PEOPLE STILL DRIVE LIKE ASSHOLES. The rules are, for the most part, blatantly ignored.

I took a road trip up to Quebec, Quebec Thanksgiving weekend. It's really not any different up there. People still ignore the speed limits, even if they are slightly higher than in the states, on your autoroutes.* People pass on the right, weave through traffic, double park, and tailgate, just like in every other place where cars can go.

Things aren't going to significantly improve with your new laws, since they don't address the fundamental issue: people ignore the rules -- not because they have any kind of malicious- intent, but because see them as being arbitrary and severe. The best example of that sentiment is the speed limit, which around here at least, and in my experience, in Quebec, people treat as a minimum speed. Get off your high horse and realize that since people will drive like this anyway, we should incorporate safety devices and technologies to make that driving safer, all in order to minimize deaths, in the end.

* Btw... why don't your autoroutes have acceleration lanes?

That should read

That is, until the PC gets hit by a ton of viruses, spyware, adware, trojans... which slow it down to half the speed of the Mac.

Had a PC since 1990 - never got a virus. A little prevention goes a long way.

You know OSX people are not invulnerable to viruses or trojans. I remember the Morris Worm infected mostly BSD. The current relatively safe OSX situation occurs because with with 2% market share it's not worth the ego boost for most virus kiddies to target the platform. Basically, when it comes to Macs no kiddies really care... or cared.

However, I recall in the late 1980s when Macs had quite a large market share relative to today that there were several Mac-specific viruses. But personally I'd say it's just a matter of time before OSX gets its own virus. I'd actually see the release of an OSX-specific virus or trojan as evidence of increasing market share!

Here is a link to a dslreports thread where the authors of this software chime in:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9707744

The client develoeprs have to recognize that yes, sharing is nice and leeching is bad, but disrupting the users' connection is a Very Bad Thing

Disrupting user connection ? Like throwing a bomb on a thing may disrupt the thing, but the inet connection of the user isn't disrupted at all.

What really happens is that the download/upload speed are tied in Bittorrent, but you can use Opera Explorer YouNameItProgram at the same time and there will be no disruption at all.

If by "disruption" you mean that the use of bittorrent will take some of the bandwidth avaiable to the user, then even Explorer is a "disruptive" application, any application would be "disruptive".

The fact that customers with Asynchronous DSL lines (aka ADSL) will have their download speed limited when they upload -at the same time- is not a Bittorrent fault ( easy explanation, very technical explanation)

Your local telco should be able to provide you with a T1 for roughly $600-700 per month, although it is not uncommon to see them priced at $1,000-1,500. Resellers can sometimes drop below that. Of course, your initial cost for equipment will probably run your first month into the thousands, so a T1 might not be the best option.

I have several clients who own and operate their own web servers using nothing more complicated than an SDSL line, a router, and a dedicated Mac or PC. (DO NOT plan on using your server as your desktop machine!) This is slightly more expensive ($70-200 per month or more, depending on bandwidth), but generally includes one or more static IPs, and willingness to let you run anything you want, so long as it's legal. Call all of your local DSL providers for pricing, terms, and availability, or check with DSL reports to see who's in your area and what people say about them.

Of course, if you're concerned about costs and reliability, just stick with cable and use a host. $6 a month isn't much, and it's well worth not having the same headaches as running a server. Almost no cheap ADSL or cable provider will allow you to run a server; that's the reason they're so inexpensive. If you run a server, their bandwidth costs go up.

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This is definitly the wave of the future, just not addressing the hard core gamer market since they all use PC's (actually a much smaller market then the consumer market). Good idea..

Not only is he posting to message boards, but he's praising himself under a different name!. Priceless.

Korea being the largest in the bunch

China (PRC) is now the largest MMOG market. Also, China is now the largest installed base of DSL in the world.

Dear Apple,
My sister-in-law accidentally used my Powerbook to toilet-train my twin nephews. No matter how much I scrub, I can't clean it, especially the stuff stuck in the keyboard. I want my refund NOW!

To find out more about wireless Internet:

• The WISP forum on Broadband Reports (an excellent resource for all kinds of fast Internet)
• The WISP users forum on BBR
• Directory of WISPs at Part-15.org
• Another nationwide directory of WISPs
• Alvarion's broadband wireless access site - some good information in their product descriptions and white papers

To find out more about wireless Internet:

• The WISP forum on Broadband Reports (an excellent resource for all kinds of fast Internet)
• The WISP users forum on BBR
• Directory of WISPs at Part-15.org
• Another nationwide directory of WISPs
• Alvarion's broadband wireless access site - some good information in their product descriptions and white papers

Vonage 911 dialing is supposed to-- the keyword here is supposed to-- connect you to the same PSAP (Public Safety Answer Point) that you would be connected to if you dialed 911 from a landline.

In a normal 911 call from a landline, the call goes from the telco switch to the PSAP via a dedicated trunk that carries only 911 traffic. A data channel (ISDN) is provided that sends ANI/ALI information from the phone company, which uses various databases provided by Intrado and others to match up your phone number with your current address.

Dialing 911 from a Vonage connection, however, is equivalent to dialing the PSAP's 10-digit number. The call does not go through the 911 trunk, and no location information is sent other than standard Caller ID information. Depending on configuration of the PSAP, this line may also take non-emergency calls and your call may be answered with less priority than a normal 911 call. This 10-digit number is also the number used by alarm companies to report alarms to the police.

In the past, serious problems have been reported with the Vonage 911 service. One man tried to call "911" and got an insurance company instead. I highly recommend that you test Vonage's emergency dialing feature. Do not simply test it out, however. You will want to notify your local police department that you want to do this.

In case you didn't know, DSLReports.com maintains an active forum on VoIP providers. Official reps from Vonage frequent the site.