When I was hunting for an apartment here in Calgary, Alberta, one of the buildings was boasting about "In suite high speed internet". The company providing the service, Suite Systems was just a subsiduary of the management company. It looked very promising, so I started to do some research. There were claims of 100Mbit fibre to the building and unlimited usage. When I finally got a hold of someone in the know, (I called their tech support department), it turned out that you recieved an internal (not-routable) ip, and the link in your apartment was actually throttled WAY down. I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was equivalent to cable roughly. I decided not to rent the place, but rather just get DSL in another apartment.
Mine cratered on me once, making the oddest noises I've ever heard a harddrive make. I didn't lose much data, but now I don't trust the drive. I still have my 24GB Quantum in that machine that I keep anything important on. The Quantum was supposed to go to a file server on my home network. After the Deskstar cratered, I ran IBMs drive testing tool which found the errors, did what I assume was a low-level format, and it has been functionning fine ever since. Still too worried to keep anything important on it though.
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When I was hunting for an apartment here in Calgary, Alberta, one of the buildings was boasting about "In suite high speed internet". The company providing the service, Suite Systems was just a subsiduary of the management company. It looked very promising, so I started to do some research. There were claims of 100Mbit fibre to the building and unlimited usage. When I finally got a hold of someone in the know, (I called their tech support department), it turned out that you recieved an internal (not-routable) ip, and the link in your apartment was actually throttled WAY down. I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was equivalent to cable roughly. I decided not to rent the place, but rather just get DSL in another apartment.
Mine cratered on me once, making the oddest noises I've ever heard a harddrive make. I didn't lose much data, but now I don't trust the drive. I still have my 24GB Quantum in that machine that I keep anything important on. The Quantum was supposed to go to a file server on my home network. After the Deskstar cratered, I ran IBMs drive testing tool which found the errors, did what I assume was a low-level format, and it has been functionning fine ever since. Still too worried to keep anything important on it though.
Ever seen Gattaca?