Community Sets Up Their Own DSL

Thrazzle Throne writes "The folks in rural Ruby Ranch got tired of lame dial-up server. They fought the phone company for use of their un-used lines and installed their own Dsl service. Very cool read."

Comments

On another note

[BurpingWeezer]

Ruby Ranch sets up the DSL, Slashdot effect takes it down...

Re:On another note

[MaxVlast]

Well, it's better than "guy installs commonly-used software on consumer device, turns it on, submits to slashdot." This is legitimately cool.

Slashdot on the horizon

[Hornsby]

Better pen up the cattle boys, I can see a slashdot brewin' up on the horizon.

I suddenly find myself wondering if this is the first barn slashdot has ever taken down...

Coloradoans, unite!

[Chagatai]

Being a Coloradoan who lives out in the farms, I can totally appreciate what my fellow statesmen did in the mountains. Without a doubt, Qwest is the worst phone company out here, even worse than its predecessor, US West. People out here call it Qworst as they have no continuity or set goals for DSL. Some of my friends in more urban areas complain about DSL being available four blocks north and south of their street, but nothing in their region. I cheer about this development and will try to implement one, pending I get a tornado-proof shed in my backyard.

And for one last dig on Qwest, here's an often-heard Coloradoan joke: What's the difference between Qwest and Enron? About six more months.

Hrm...

[anderiv]

Funny how this server doesn't seem to have held up as well as the iPAQ :-)

The cost of a slashdotting

[datastew]

From the faq What are you recurring costs?

The Coop pays for its data traffic on the T1 data line. This cost could be anywhere from $75 per month to about $450 per month, depending on traffic levels. After some months in service we will have a better sense of what this cost is turning out to be.

Does anyone know whether that "about $450 per month" is the maximum charge? I guess they are about to find out. Sometimes I feel sorry for the slashdotted victims.

Thrazzle Throne??

[TheNecromancer]

Hmm, he must be a Qwest rep to post this story with a link to the cooperative's site. Easiest and fastest way to get back at those pesky consumers: Slashdot their new service!

Re:Reminds me of

[ImaLamer]

It's true... if my girl friend didn't pay the Cable modem bill I think I would leave

Bizarre Metaphor

[snicker]

Could someone explain to me what this quote means?

If you throw a dart at a map of the United States, much of the nation can't access broadband even if they wanted to.

I was following the story pretty well up until that point.
*nick

Re:Bizarre Metaphor

[digitalsushi]

Could someone explain to me what this quote means?

If you throw a dart at a map of the United States, much of the nation can't access broadband even if they wanted to.

I was following the story pretty well up until that point.

If you're going to ask questions like that on Slashdot, until the farmer realized all the cows were already home!

Re:Bizarre Metaphor

[red_dragon]

Help, Yoda can:

If at a map of the United States a dart you throw, access broadband even if they wanted to much of the nation can't.

Better now?

Zippiness and fun!

[dmccarty]

[...] anyone who has used a fast connection knows it changes the online experience forever from one of frustration and drudge to zippiness and fun.

Aha! I've been happy with my cable service. I just didn't know I could be that happy!

A barn, somewhere in Colorado...

[Wraithlyn]

Zeke: Durnit! All of a sudden, the DSL got reeeaal slow, then it stopped altogether!

Ezekiel: Hmmm, my 28.8 connection seems to be connecting fine... let's just surf on over to Slashdot... OH MY DEAR GOD

Simple, really... cause and effect

[Rayonic]

Cause - You throw a dart at a map of the United States.

Effect - Much of the nation can't access broadband if they wanted to.

Solution - For the love of God, DON'T THROW THAT DART!

Re:Simple, really... cause and effect

[BlowCat]

Cause - You throw a dart at a map of the United States.
Effect - Much of the nation can't access broadband if they wanted to.
Solution - For the love of God, DON'T THROW THAT DART!

Wrong. The right solution - ban darts. And maps.

M$--ware running the main site!

[drwhite]

NT/WINDOWS 98 is their main server o/s!
check netcraft...

Cost of slashdot effect

[m0i]

If you look at their bandwidth stats,
who's gonna pay the bill?
According to http://www.rric.net/faq/speeds.htm, the subscribers pay for usage; slashdot users should be billed to suck up that much bandwidth, eh!

Hey, it's in Colorado

[DarkHelmet]

I wonder how the people in South Park are taking the slashdotting:

Stan: Why's this damn thing taking so long?
Kyle: Stupid slashdot crashed our DSL.
Kenny: MFFMFMMMFMFMMMFMM
Stan: Yeah, this movie of Cartman's mom's taking forever to download.
Cartman: That's it! Screw you guys, I'm going home!

Way to go!

[cr@ckwhore]

As if slashdotting some poor guy's PDA earlier today wasn't enough, the hounds behind slashdot, the worlds #1 DOS trigger, had to go take out an entire community.

Way to go guys!