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Dealing With Dialup
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like my parents may end up stuck having to use dialup to access the Internet from their cottage inside the Cape Cod National Seashore. Neither Comcast nor Verizon want to bother upgrading the hardware required to get them faster service. They could put a satellite dish on their roof, but it's a 300-year-old house and they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly as running dedicated lines would be prohibitively expensive. I've suggested they get familiar with a text-only email client; I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps. , Are there other ways they can increase the functionality despite the pitiful bandwidth? Any other good ideas? Any success stories you can share where people have finally got the bandwidth they crave?"
completely crazy suggestion. why hide a bee-you-tee-full dish under a rock? we use cable, but i still want a dish on my roof, even if i doesnt do anything.
I have a single core processor, you insensitive clod!
Nuke dialup from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
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"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
They should mirror the internet during the night, updating a local cache, and when they surf during the day, they actually surf the locally cached internet.
They might even be able to use their browser cache for that, I would think. I have mine set at 50Mb and I never get complaints from my browser that it needs more, so I would say 50Mb is enough. Maybe set it to 100Mb of you also want a backup.
I hope this helps. And if not, I still have a 14k4 modem somewhere of you want to speed up the caching process.
Privacy is terrorism.
A 20 foot high fibreglass gnome in the back garden would do the trick. You could paint nerd clothes on him too as an ironic thingy.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
If you move to the boonies to get away from everything, don't be surprised when it works.
have you told the UN about this? obviously your human rights are being violated!
Me too maybe we should get together and build a Beowulf cluster?
...their time is almost up. Then dial up will be the least of their problems. And if I had a 300-yr-old cottage on Cape Cod, frankly, I wouldn't give a damn about the internet, e-mail, or whether my kid was in my will.
Or a 20foot high TUX!!! You could make money by selling tickets to geeks who want to have their picture taken with it.
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Putting the dish on the roof would reduce latency too since the signals don't have to travel as far.
-- OR --
Get a satellite dish.
Beat it up, hammer some areas
Make it look weatherworn (paint, spray cobweb)
to make it look 300 years old
Oh, sorry, I thought we were on the Rachel Ray forums for a second... :-p
I need fast connectivity all the time. I live in a cabinet in NYIIX and have a GigE cross-connect to a large multi-homed web 2.0 customer that I consult for. You'd think it's not possible to sleep vertically and with all the noise, but actually, I have. I got some really cool sling gear from REI that makes it comfortable to sleep half-sitting. The free coffee in the break room is actually quite good, but the food in the vending machine got old a long time ago. They don't deliver pizza here, though, because the guards keep chasing them away. I've been able to maintain several level 70+ characters in WoW when I'm not working. Let's face it, at $2000/mo (includes rack, cross-connect and power) in lower Manhattan, it's quite a bargain. I regret having to give up my dog (no pets!). He stays with my parents now in their 300-year-old-house near Boston. Things are looking up, though. Looks like some girl has moved into cab J19.
I have dual core processor. Apparently means that each processor contains two processors. With a little recursion, there's no limit to the computing power at my disposal.
Unfortunately, the setup is only useful for computations so embarrassingly parallel that they're afraid to come out and actually meet the processors interface to interface.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Oops- 31.2kbps. Wouldn't want myself to get a big head.
How do you read Slashdot on your 40-column Commodore 64? Pretty impressive for a working-class guy.
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My Mom lives in Foulmouth, and my Sister lives in Mashpea - both of which have cable internet. I know my business wireless internet card (from Verizon) works up there .. There is internet and cable all over the place in both P-town and the Vinyard .. so if its just a matter of coverage in your area due to bad equipment, you can always fork over the $60 a month for a wireless broadband card.
.. chances are it will have wireless internet now adays.
Otherwise, what about ISDN ? or possibly a wireless directional antenna ? (a can) if there is anything tourist related near them
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My grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be 120 years old.
If a city that old can have dishes without looking bad or distracting, I think a house in New York will be okay.
Granted it's overrun with f'ing New Yorkers in the summer, but just for the record any cottage at the Cape Cod National Seashore is most definitely in Massachusetts.
Cape Cod likely enforces CC&Rs specifying that all rocks must be natural. The same restriction does not apply to residents.