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Do even more math!A few years ago, I read an article that you can fit every person/family in the world with their own house, and the area it would take would be able the size of Texas.
Okay, I did the math. Check it out here. One quote:
Obviously, this isn't an argument, it's a non sequitur. If that's not obvious, let's take it all the way to the limit, and see if it still seems convincing. Let's assume 4.5 ft^3/person. There's 1.47x10^11 ft^3/mile^3. Divide that by 4.5 and then by 6x10^9 and you get ~.20 mi^3 to hold the world's population! Heck, we only need a cube ~3000 ft on a side! We can stack everyone in a corner of the Grand Canyon and leave the rest of the planet untouched!
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Re:It's simple, really.If time travel were possible, somebody... would have traveled into the past already.
As has been noted, GR time machines can't go back any further than when they were assembled. So you can't goi back any further than the first one.
It's impossible to know. History is chaotic. Consider a simple thing, like weather. That's chaotic, with a lambda on the order of a few days. You appear, kill baby Hitler, disappear. A few days later, it's raining instead of sunny.
All the weather, subsequently, is different. That affects when people make love; even a small difference in position and timing changes which sperm reaches the egg. The next generation consists of completely different individuals from the one in "our" history. Madonna and Nelson Mandela are never born.
If you can change the past, then you must, and you can't predict how you will change it.
I cover all this and more in my time travel page.
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Re:Travelling through time can't be possible.* If I could travel back in time, then why would we not have seen people doing so already? Wouldn't travelers from OUR future visit us now?
Easily shot down. All the time machines that we can come up with consistent with general relativity have something in common... you can't go back any further than when the time machine was first put together. So, we don't have time travellers (yet) because we haven't built a time machine.
Shameless plug: I wrote up a time
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Do-It-Yourself Audio ForensicsGood audio forensics training. Check it out.
www.baudline.com has a selection of Mystery Signals for you to try and identify what they are. Help is provided on how to use the program [called, appropriately enough, 'Baudline'] to isolate, filter, and massage the sound in various ways to figure out what it really is.
It is a sound analysis toolkit that is very flexible and is targeted at audio signal analysis, not editing. See more details here.
Anyway, their Mystery Signals are pretty fun to play with and try to figure out. Hints are provided, as are answers if you choose to look. The explanation provided for this file is:
This mystery signal is the sound of the harmonic oscillations of a surf board strapped to the roof of a rental car that is slowly accelerating. There are two signals of interest here. Let's break it down. The 4 cylinder rental car accelerates from about 30 MPH at the start to about 50 MPH at the end of the file. Switching to a 16384 point FFT size will help bring out the detail. The first signal starts at 80 Hz and it slowly increases in a linear fashion to 88 Hz at the 12 second mark. Using the harmonic helper bars, the 3rd harmonic is the strongest, but the 2nd and 4th are faintly visble. This is the sound of the car engine reving from 2400 to 2640 RPM. Then at the 12 second mark a transition that takes about 3/4 of a second occurs, this is the gear shift of the automatic transmission. The new new fundemental is about 70 Hz and it slowly increases again in a linear fashion to 74 Hz where the file ends. This equates to an increase in engine rev speed from 2100 RPM to 2220 RPM. The acceleration was slow and the RPM calculations match the behavior one would expect from a low performance 4 cylinder rental car with an automatic transmission. The second signal of interest starts at 128 Hz and time zero. Things are fairly calm and the coupled surf board, springy strap, and rental car roof speaker cone are just starting to hum and oscillate. The harmonic helper bars show that the fundamental and the 2nd thru the 6th harmonic are all related. Tracking the wiggles of the fundamental over time show that and they match the variations in the harmonics perfectly. As the car speeds up the lift and the wind force on the surf board increases and the wild harmonic oscillations increase in strength and frequency. There could be some chaos here, it looks like some bifurcation of modulation modes are happening, but some further measurements and analysis is required to say for sure. This mystery signal was recorded on a Canon S110 digital camera in low resolution movie mode. Baudline can read the Canon
Program Features:
* 192 kHz real-time bandwidth * 96 dB dynamic range * Multiple sound card support * Input stream DC offset correction and delay line equalization * Configurable input channels that can perform various operations * Frequency, time, amplitude, and sample probability distribution analysis * High speed displays * Test signal generation * Drift Integration "de-chirping" * Audio player o looping o speed control with multirate resampling o pitch scaling o heterodyning (frequency shifting) o 2D matrix surround panning o notch, high, and low pass filters * File loading o file formats:Grab the latest binary(only) here or find it in the BSD Ports.
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Do-It-Yourself Audio ForensicsGood audio forensics training. Check it out.
www.baudline.com has a selection of Mystery Signals for you to try and identify what they are. Help is provided on how to use the program [called, appropriately enough, 'Baudline'] to isolate, filter, and massage the sound in various ways to figure out what it really is.
It is a sound analysis toolkit that is very flexible and is targeted at audio signal analysis, not editing. See more details here.
Anyway, their Mystery Signals are pretty fun to play with and try to figure out. Hints are provided, as are answers if you choose to look. The explanation provided for this file is:
This mystery signal is the sound of the harmonic oscillations of a surf board strapped to the roof of a rental car that is slowly accelerating. There are two signals of interest here. Let's break it down. The 4 cylinder rental car accelerates from about 30 MPH at the start to about 50 MPH at the end of the file. Switching to a 16384 point FFT size will help bring out the detail. The first signal starts at 80 Hz and it slowly increases in a linear fashion to 88 Hz at the 12 second mark. Using the harmonic helper bars, the 3rd harmonic is the strongest, but the 2nd and 4th are faintly visble. This is the sound of the car engine reving from 2400 to 2640 RPM. Then at the 12 second mark a transition that takes about 3/4 of a second occurs, this is the gear shift of the automatic transmission. The new new fundemental is about 70 Hz and it slowly increases again in a linear fashion to 74 Hz where the file ends. This equates to an increase in engine rev speed from 2100 RPM to 2220 RPM. The acceleration was slow and the RPM calculations match the behavior one would expect from a low performance 4 cylinder rental car with an automatic transmission. The second signal of interest starts at 128 Hz and time zero. Things are fairly calm and the coupled surf board, springy strap, and rental car roof speaker cone are just starting to hum and oscillate. The harmonic helper bars show that the fundamental and the 2nd thru the 6th harmonic are all related. Tracking the wiggles of the fundamental over time show that and they match the variations in the harmonics perfectly. As the car speeds up the lift and the wind force on the surf board increases and the wild harmonic oscillations increase in strength and frequency. There could be some chaos here, it looks like some bifurcation of modulation modes are happening, but some further measurements and analysis is required to say for sure. This mystery signal was recorded on a Canon S110 digital camera in low resolution movie mode. Baudline can read the Canon
Program Features:
* 192 kHz real-time bandwidth * 96 dB dynamic range * Multiple sound card support * Input stream DC offset correction and delay line equalization * Configurable input channels that can perform various operations * Frequency, time, amplitude, and sample probability distribution analysis * High speed displays * Test signal generation * Drift Integration "de-chirping" * Audio player o looping o speed control with multirate resampling o pitch scaling o heterodyning (frequency shifting) o 2D matrix surround panning o notch, high, and low pass filters * File loading o file formats:Grab the latest binary(only) here or find it in the BSD Ports.
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Do-It-Yourself Audio ForensicsGood audio forensics training. Check it out.
www.baudline.com has a selection of Mystery Signals for you to try and identify what they are. Help is provided on how to use the program [called, appropriately enough, 'Baudline'] to isolate, filter, and massage the sound in various ways to figure out what it really is.
It is a sound analysis toolkit that is very flexible and is targeted at audio signal analysis, not editing. See more details here.
Anyway, their Mystery Signals are pretty fun to play with and try to figure out. Hints are provided, as are answers if you choose to look. The explanation provided for this file is:
This mystery signal is the sound of the harmonic oscillations of a surf board strapped to the roof of a rental car that is slowly accelerating. There are two signals of interest here. Let's break it down. The 4 cylinder rental car accelerates from about 30 MPH at the start to about 50 MPH at the end of the file. Switching to a 16384 point FFT size will help bring out the detail. The first signal starts at 80 Hz and it slowly increases in a linear fashion to 88 Hz at the 12 second mark. Using the harmonic helper bars, the 3rd harmonic is the strongest, but the 2nd and 4th are faintly visble. This is the sound of the car engine reving from 2400 to 2640 RPM. Then at the 12 second mark a transition that takes about 3/4 of a second occurs, this is the gear shift of the automatic transmission. The new new fundemental is about 70 Hz and it slowly increases again in a linear fashion to 74 Hz where the file ends. This equates to an increase in engine rev speed from 2100 RPM to 2220 RPM. The acceleration was slow and the RPM calculations match the behavior one would expect from a low performance 4 cylinder rental car with an automatic transmission. The second signal of interest starts at 128 Hz and time zero. Things are fairly calm and the coupled surf board, springy strap, and rental car roof speaker cone are just starting to hum and oscillate. The harmonic helper bars show that the fundamental and the 2nd thru the 6th harmonic are all related. Tracking the wiggles of the fundamental over time show that and they match the variations in the harmonics perfectly. As the car speeds up the lift and the wind force on the surf board increases and the wild harmonic oscillations increase in strength and frequency. There could be some chaos here, it looks like some bifurcation of modulation modes are happening, but some further measurements and analysis is required to say for sure. This mystery signal was recorded on a Canon S110 digital camera in low resolution movie mode. Baudline can read the Canon
Program Features:
* 192 kHz real-time bandwidth * 96 dB dynamic range * Multiple sound card support * Input stream DC offset correction and delay line equalization * Configurable input channels that can perform various operations * Frequency, time, amplitude, and sample probability distribution analysis * High speed displays * Test signal generation * Drift Integration "de-chirping" * Audio player o looping o speed control with multirate resampling o pitch scaling o heterodyning (frequency shifting) o 2D matrix surround panning o notch, high, and low pass filters * File loading o file formats:Grab the latest binary(only) here or find it in the BSD Ports.
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Do-It-Yourself Audio ForensicsGood audio forensics training. Check it out.
www.baudline.com has a selection of Mystery Signals for you to try and identify what they are. Help is provided on how to use the program [called, appropriately enough, 'Baudline'] to isolate, filter, and massage the sound in various ways to figure out what it really is.
It is a sound analysis toolkit that is very flexible and is targeted at audio signal analysis, not editing. See more details here.
Anyway, their Mystery Signals are pretty fun to play with and try to figure out. Hints are provided, as are answers if you choose to look. The explanation provided for this file is:
This mystery signal is the sound of the harmonic oscillations of a surf board strapped to the roof of a rental car that is slowly accelerating. There are two signals of interest here. Let's break it down. The 4 cylinder rental car accelerates from about 30 MPH at the start to about 50 MPH at the end of the file. Switching to a 16384 point FFT size will help bring out the detail. The first signal starts at 80 Hz and it slowly increases in a linear fashion to 88 Hz at the 12 second mark. Using the harmonic helper bars, the 3rd harmonic is the strongest, but the 2nd and 4th are faintly visble. This is the sound of the car engine reving from 2400 to 2640 RPM. Then at the 12 second mark a transition that takes about 3/4 of a second occurs, this is the gear shift of the automatic transmission. The new new fundemental is about 70 Hz and it slowly increases again in a linear fashion to 74 Hz where the file ends. This equates to an increase in engine rev speed from 2100 RPM to 2220 RPM. The acceleration was slow and the RPM calculations match the behavior one would expect from a low performance 4 cylinder rental car with an automatic transmission. The second signal of interest starts at 128 Hz and time zero. Things are fairly calm and the coupled surf board, springy strap, and rental car roof speaker cone are just starting to hum and oscillate. The harmonic helper bars show that the fundamental and the 2nd thru the 6th harmonic are all related. Tracking the wiggles of the fundamental over time show that and they match the variations in the harmonics perfectly. As the car speeds up the lift and the wind force on the surf board increases and the wild harmonic oscillations increase in strength and frequency. There could be some chaos here, it looks like some bifurcation of modulation modes are happening, but some further measurements and analysis is required to say for sure. This mystery signal was recorded on a Canon S110 digital camera in low resolution movie mode. Baudline can read the Canon
Program Features:
* 192 kHz real-time bandwidth * 96 dB dynamic range * Multiple sound card support * Input stream DC offset correction and delay line equalization * Configurable input channels that can perform various operations * Frequency, time, amplitude, and sample probability distribution analysis * High speed displays * Test signal generation * Drift Integration "de-chirping" * Audio player o looping o speed control with multirate resampling o pitch scaling o heterodyning (frequency shifting) o 2D matrix surround panning o notch, high, and low pass filters * File loading o file formats:Grab the latest binary(only) here or find it in the BSD Ports.
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Definately KPMG.
With a song like this you know they mean business.
There's even a jungle remix! w00t!
:wq
(Personally, tho, I like IBM's "Ever Onward". Just has that
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OK, here are some factsI got so sick of hearing people say that the Earth isn't overpopulated that I put together some facts. Hope you enjoy:
The upshot is that even with optimistic assumptions, the amount of space people need in support vastly outstrips the mere "living space" (housing) they need. The proportion is sobering.
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Re:Terminator: Infiltrator?SOMEONE MUST HAVE DESIGNED THEM
Assuming that history can be changed, yes, someone had to design them. And they did, just in an alternate universe that we didn't get to see.
On the other hand, it is consistent, if you assume that the past cannot be changed, for the technology to have no inventors. Information need not be conserved in time-travel interactions.
This isn't a paradox. A paradox is self-inconsistent. But you can also have consistent loops where effects are their own causes. This is an orthogonal concept, so they have been called "perpendoxes".
Anyway, if you care about this sort of thing, check out my time travel page.
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if you use Linux then check out baudline
From the the what is baudline? webpage:
Baudline is a real-time signal analysis tool and an offline time-frequency browser. It has a built in tone generation capability and it can play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. Designed for environmental analysis missions that range from modulation parameter measurements to searching for transient signals that go bump in the night, baudline combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high-speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics.
Capture, analyze, measure, play.
Baudline isn't really an oscilloscope although it does have a waveform display. It is more of of an integrated spectral analysis laboratory with a built in function (tone) generator. Baudline currently only works with sound cards and is limited to a 192kHz sample rate.
Some folks have mentioned that computer sound cards are not really sensitive lab tools, this is true. But with a well grounded PC and a decent quality sound card like the $20 Sound Blaster PCI16 you can capture some good clean signal. For low bandwidth work the 16 bit ADC and DAC's in a PC sound card are actually far superior to the 8 or 10 bit ones that are found in todays digital scopes. So if you don't need MHz inputs, then check out baudline or the mirror, it is free, but it only runs on Linux.. -
I Listened to the Leonids
Now this isn't as cool as hearing meteors unaided with my ears. But while I was outside watching the Leonids here in Cupertino, I was also watching and listening to NASA's Meteor-radar with a linux program called baudline. There was a lot of activity that night, about a hit a second. Unfortunately I can't correlate the radar hits with the visuals since I live in California and the meteor radar is in other states (NM TX and AL). Still it was cool.
Right now the meteor radar is getting a hit about every 20 seconds. Sweet, I just saw a 70 second streak with a doppler shift of about 183 Hz. That is screaming at about 17X earth rotation! (If I wasn't so lazy I'd calculate that in MPH or m/s)
How did I do it? I just piped the real-time NASA stream into the standard input (stdin) of baudline, then equalized it with about 10 seconds of quietness, and then watched and listened away. I used this command line:
mpg123 -s http://icecast.msfc.nasa.gov:8000/forward-scat | baudline -stdin -channels 1 -overlap 100 -fftsize 2048 -mem 9 -record -samplerate 22050 -session meteor_radar
If the geocities site for baudline craps out, try again later, or try the mirror site. The downloaded md5sum for baudline_0.87_i686.tar.gz should be 72f949826ac81a461a8b4b5c5551f366 -
The Taxas MythThere was once a study done that showed every person in the world (this study was done between 1900-idon'tknow) could have a full acre in Texas. Believe me, the Earth has plenty of land.
Actually, at this point it's around a ninth of an acre. And it's an extremely misleading statistic, if you think about it at all. I put together what I think is a pretty thorough refutation here.
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Makes a great couch woofer too!
I remember reading an article about a guy who bolted two of these to his couch a few years back after finding them at a swap meet for $9. He said that it really makes you feel the base, and a FAQ can be found Here.
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Re:One reason, time from order to installation.No kidding.
I'm in the process of moving to a new apartment right now, and I've been setting up utilities. Phone and power went like a breeze. The customer service reps (with whom I was able to speak to nearly immediately) took down my name, address, social security number, asked me for a date of activation, and then thanked me and hung up.
That was easy. The local cable modem company (RR) is that easy, too; I called to ask how long an installation took and the rep seemed surprised that I didn't want an install in the next couple of days. This is service, people.
I decided to go with DSL, instead, because there was *one* ISP doing business in town that I could get a static IP from for a reasonable price (Southwestern Bell will give me five static IPs for $80/mo, or one dynamic for $40/mo, but nothing in between - does this make any sense?)
I'm paying the cost not in money, but in time. A month without broadband will be a long time; if it weren't for the compelling feature set and the fact that I know I'll be stuck with whatever I'm getting now for a year, I'd be jumping ship to cable in a heartbeat.
Why on earth does DSL take so long to set up? Is there an order backlog a mile long? Does the phone company introduce some sort of mandatory delay into the process?
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Telocity GWDoes anyone else recall reading something to this effect:
The Telocity GW is free to use as long as you maintained service, afterwhich, it if was not returned, you would be charged USD 425.
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sounds a lot like my plight
I've also had really bad luck with DSL providers and I've got 2 DSL modems sitting around waiting to be hacked/screwed with.
Around June of last year I signed up for 416k SDSL from PSN and was happily downloading everything in sight until December 30th or so when my line went down. Later I found out that PSN would be going out of business on the 17th of January and they'd be migrating me over to Telocity. They gave me an estimate of about 7-10 days to migrate. It took them 3 months (during which I had no internet access at all). A week after they got my connection back Northpoint went out of business and their network went down. Telocity sent me an email telling me that I'd be serviced through Rhythms now and it would take around 3 weeks to migrate over. About 3 weeks after that email I got another email from Telocity telling me that they didn't have anyone that could be my last-mile provider. I promptly canceled my Telocity account and called Time Warner and signed up for Road Runner. They set it up the next morning and I've been going strong for a week or two now.
DSL was really a nice service and I wish I could've kept it. It's really getting killed by the distance limit. BTW, when is G.Lite supposed to be coming around? If I'm correct, that extends the distance that DSL can go and it'd make it cheaper to provide. That could really be DSL's savior.
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Telocity says "We will handle everything..."
I just got off the phone with Telocity.com, my DSL ISP. They stated to me that they will be handling are already working to find a vendor for their Northpoint customers.
DSL has been one wild ride for me, I finally found an apartment which was close enough to a CO to get DSL, so I contracted with PhoenixDSL.com as my ISP, within two months of installation PhoenixDSL was bought by Megapath, who in turn sold off all of PhoenixDSL's residential customers to Telocity, my service was just cut over to Telocity last week, and now my Northpoint DSL line may be disconnected with in the next 60 days.
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as a Northpoint CLEC customer...
I am disappointed that my service will now probably die.
History
I signed up with Phoenix Networks in April of 2000. They are/were a St. Louis-based ISP contracting with Northpoint for SDSL circuits with a static IP for reasonable prices. I received 768/384 for $40/mo., and the throughput on my circuit was always satisfactory.
Delivery of the circuit required USWest (now QWest) to do their part and bring me a new pair to my house and they did dawdle, but after that, the install was seamless and my circuit met my expectations.
Northpoint offered a rebate program at the time of sign-up. I never received that rebate, though I am not too concerned about that. What bothered me was a few months after becoming a PhoenixDSL/Northpoint customer, I found out that Phoneix went under. Their service was maintained/acquired by Megapath, who retained the business clients and spun the residential customers to Telocity. Several months later, Telocity has yet to send me the hardware they say I "need" to use to access their service, and billing seems to be up in the air. I thought about leaving their stable for Megapath or QWest but decided to wait things out since Telocity has recently been made a subsidiary of Hughes Corporation, the muscle behind DirecTV/PC and I am intrigued by potential bundled packages.
Through all this, my service has been reliable. I marvel that any industry can maintain viability with such turmoil, let alone leave my connection solid and intact. I am happy my service still works (knock^2), yet realize what has been a good ride shall now come to its close and I must begin shopping. -
Re:no more than $50
For $50/mo. US, I can get DSL with a static IP, and that includes equipment rental. You get 5 emails and your basic DSL upload/download speeds.
Telocity -
telocity says "no commercial websites"See their agreement:
9. Residential Services Only
Please note that Telocity is providing the Service to you exclusively for home usage and not for use in a commercial business. Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree to the following:
The Service is broadband Internet access provided primarily to residential users, however, Telocity may provided the service, at its discretion, to customers who will use it for commercial purposes, subject to the below limitations. The service is not available to users who will host commercial websites. In order to prevent usage that may impact other customers, Telocity may, at its discretion, include a limitation on the amount of upstream data throughput, meaning from the Equipment out to the Telocity network. The limitation will be no less than 1.0 Gigabytes per month. In the event that Telocity elects to incorporate this limitation, and your usage then exceeds the maximum, Telocity may, at its discretion, either: provide you an option to purchase additional throughput; reduce the transmission speed for Service until the beginning of the next month; or limit or suspend Service until the beginning of the next month. You will be notified prior to any action being taken.
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Re:Danger, Will Robinson!I've been shopping for DSL with the intent of running a server too. I found Telocity. It's not installed yet, so no personal experience, but from the web site it looks good. They say they're linux frienly and they actually encourage running servers or hosting domain names. (static IP)
Anybody have more info, or a list, of free (libre) DSL providers like this?
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Telocity
I've been using Telocity for a little of a year, now. The install was done as scheduled, and, except for a service outage of about two weeks in July (of which they were unaware - so, I had to call them about it), I have nothing but positive feelings toward them.
One thing that probably caused my installation to be so quick, though, was that I had a second phone line that had been installed by Ameritech a few months earlier, so I really didn't have to deal too much with my telco for my DSL install. Another friend who had to deal with Ameritech and Telocity at the same time had quite a few headaches coordinating everything, as Ameritech seemed very slow.
One train of thought was that since he wasn't going to be an Ameritech customer (for DSL), they had no real motivation to take care of him in a timely matter.
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For those of you in the in the Bell Atlantic Area
For those of you using Bell Atlantic DSL, and having trouble with it, you may want to check out http://www.telocity.com. Having just set up a new phoneline and DSL for my apartment at school, I have become very disturbed at Bell Atlantic's ineptitude. In reviewing DSL service, at first I couldn't see anything good about paying ten dollars more for Atlantic Bell then the fifty dollars a month for Telocity. Looking into the features of each Telocity easily became a better deal, with 3 emails, *nix support, a static ip, 24/7 support, and remote dialup if you are away from home. However the truth of the service became even more clear as I waited for my phoneline to get hooked up. Bell Atlantic, although I do have phoning capability, is still reading a dead line when they test my line from headquarters. Telocity's DSL test, however, confirmed that while my telephone in Bell Atlantic's database was faulty, Telocity's real time testing tools confirmed that my line was both operational and ready for DSL. Basically be very very careful with both phone companies and DSL providers
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My home networkConsists of Telocity DSL protected via Linux Router Project Materhorn running on a 486DX-66.
All my internal boxes (including a roommates win98 machine) are masqueraded through my LRP router. I forward ssh, http/https, and smtp to an internal box, so my web server is publicly accessible, and I can receive my own mail (I use Qmail).
I also used the Public DNS service to provide forward DNS for 0xd6.org, which goes to my network at home. One bad thing about Telocity is that because they're swamped with tech support, etc., they won't delagate reverse DNS. For my simple home setup, I don't care.
This setup has been up and running for the last few months, I have also assisted a friend and my mother in getting this going. All you need is Telocity and a cheap 486 with two NICs and you're ready to go.
About telocity:
It took about a month from ordering Telocity to having our service installed. My friend and mother's installation went fine but I had a few minor quirks which were easily solved by Telocity (i.e. they knew what the problem was and fixed it themselves). As I mentioned before, Telocity's one true failing is technical support. Be prepared to spend hours waiting to get a human, this is due to the fact that Telocity has many users in many cities. But as for running your own network, Telocity doesn't care what you do as long as you don't do anything commercial. In fact, we were told that our service was limited to 768k down/384k up, but in actuality Telocity doesn't limit up (I've gotten 768k consistently) and they're rate-limiting software doesn't work as well as they thought, because I've gotten over 900k downloading before my speeds started dropping. The moral of this story is: get telocity and go nuts with your setup. Make sure that you protect your network.Marcus
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Try my DSL provider...
Telocity
They don't care what you do with your connection as long as you aren't running a comercial site (and I'm not sure if they only really mean as long as you aren't reselling the bandwith for XYZ company's webpage).
Of course, they may not be in your area.
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Re:Cable modems and AOL
I must deal with RCN's awful service, or wait for DSL to come to the inner city at comparable prices.
Why does everyone think that DSL is expensive?
Granted, its not available everywhere by any means, but neither are cable modems. I have Time-Warner here (they have a monopoly), and they told me that they have no definitive plans at this time to offer RoadRunner service in my area.
My DSL provider is $50 a month, and I'm getting 784K, but I guess that is dependant on your distance from the CO.
Lots of others (Ameritech, Covad, etc.) are offering DSL at comparable prices.