I was paying $75/mo just for internet at one point because there was no DSL in my neighborhood. My buddy got the same service for $55/mo, but he could jump ship to DSL because his house was newer
I have not seen ANY service providers that do this...
Time Warner offers the same $15/mo 2/1Mbps internet service EVERYWHERE in their service area. Comcast, Charter, Verizon, AT&T, etc., have their pricing listed on their website, for ANYBODY to look at, without first entering your address.
The service providers might be offering cut-to-the-bone promotional fees where they're losing customers to competitors, but I certainly haven't seen them doing that, either.
After Cox gave me a crazy late-fee, I called to cancel my service. They offered me all kinds of promotions, even though my monstrous apartment complex (several city blocks) was all pre-wired by Cox, and no other wired internet service was available (and LTE was just barely being built). They didn't seem to know I didn't really have any other options.
In lieu of any (better) theories, I'd just go the simple route... Viewer count may have just been terribly low, so the channel not worth keeping on, and removing it made room for another channel that might do better. Nothing related to the merger nor different than how any other channels are managed.
Like I said, without a much better conspiracy theory coming along, with information to back it up... I just don't see the scheme.
This is just a basic "How-to use Netflow on OpenBSD". Nothing more.
IMHO, Netflow is interesting ONLY if you have no other way to gather info from hardware routers/switches. It's the only protocol likely to be supported.
If, however, you can just mirror a port you're interested in (eg. the uplink), as you already would be doing with an IDS and similar, you don't need to bother with Netflow. Instead, you can get all the info you could want, with trivial ease, just by installing and running BandwidthD-2.x: http://bandwidthd.sourceforge....
Anybody can set it up in 15 minutes, and immediately get a user-friendly web page with all the throughput and billing info you'd want, at any resolution you like. If you need in-depth detail, you just need to dive into querying the database directly.
I'm anxiously awaiting software-defined networking taking over, and freeing us from all the horrible limitations and lock-in of expensive network gear. Until then, do everything you can with a computer, and traffic monitoring is absolutely one of those.
I've gotten service from several different cable providers, and NONE of them have ever done ANYTHING of the sort to my connection (except sometimes to bittorrent traffic).
You don't need to go to a speed-test site. Find a large file on any web site (movies on archive.org seem like a good candidate), time the download, and calculate the throughput from the speed.
I have plenty of DD-WRT routers and such, but that's not necessary. People will EASILY be able to see when their big downloads are going a couple orders of magnitude slower than they should. They don't even need to know any of the math to figure out that their connection is X, their work tells them they have about X too, yet one location downloads files MUCH, MUCH faster than the other.
Not using birth control is assault in other countries?!?!
A condom IS NOT JUST BIRTH CONTROL. It is, first and foremost, the only currently viable protection against sexually transmitted disease. Not using one is tantamount to spitting in a stranger's mouth. If someone with HIV doesn't use a condom against their partner's wishes, they will go to jail for some form of murder.
That is what would be required to meet GP's silly and imaginary Intel roadmap. Except, of course, that wouldn't be "x86" any longer, so it doesn't quite fit.
And *I* certainly never said "we should" do anything of the sort.
The fact that so many of Comcast's customers all choose to fill their paid-for internet pipes with bits from Netflix means that Comcast has agreed to provide adequate infrastructure to satisfy the bandwidth requirements its customers have paid for.
Just wait until Netflix decides they don't like paying for internet access anymore, and tells Comcast that THEY have to run free pipes to their door, or else their customers don't get Netflix anymore. After all, YOU paid Comcast to get Netflix, so, in your imaginary world, Comcast has to do ANYTHING Netflix wants, no matter how badly they act.
Your claim is utterly ridiculous. CPU cache OVERWHELMINGLY dominates the x86/x64 die. Intel/Amd could eliminate ALL processor functions, entirely, and the die STILL wouldn't be "way smaller" (or "way cheaper" for that matter).
Consent is allowing penetration, wearing a rubber or not is not part of what constitutes consent.
Not wearing a condom would certainly count as some degree of assault in most countries. No question a criminal act. That the country it happened in chooses to call it some form of rape is immaterial.
I'm more interested in why some people keep trying to show us what an awful character Assange is
Clearly, samzenpus is the ringleader of this vast, multinational, and multi-billion dollar conspiracy.
I just wonder how he convinced his corporate overlords at Dice to develop the Beta site, and I'm still not QUITE sure how that fits into demonizing Assange.
That's one of the key tactics that have been used for ages. Can't refute their claim, can't dispel the allegations, can't debunk their claims? Attack them instead of their message.
What message? Assange's only message is that he's perfect, and there's a world-wide grand conspiracy moving heaven and earth to... charge him with fairly minor crimes. He's the head of NOTHING. He has no other interest or goal than himself. It was obvious he was an egomaniac many years ago, so this is hardly a revelation.
There's one simple reason ARM has a strangle-hold on smart phones and tablets... For years, when such devices were being developed, MIPS Technologies was in a shambles. They were reeling from losing SGI, going IPO, and going through the processes of getting acquired by a string of several different companies. They've basically be AWOL this whole time, handing the upstart new market to ARM on a plate.
MIPS is still competitive. They've got extremely low power processors, multi-core 1GHz+ processors, and they've always been more efficient (higher DMIPS/MHz) than ARM. Despite their virtual absence, they're still used extensively in embedded systems... Your printer, WiFi AP/router, many set-top boxes, etc. They used-to have a dominant lead over ARM, selling something like 2/3rds of all embedded CPUs, but they simply fell apart and ceded the market to the competition. They're even the cheaper option... The first $100 Android ICS tablet found in China was MIPS (not ARM) based, and China's ministry of science keeps developing faster MIPS processors for domestic use, including supercomputers.
If they had competed, it might be MIPS in every smart phone. Even now, if they get back on-course, they could pose a real challenge to ARM, and driving prices down, and dividing the market, as Intel is trying to do with little success.
No story that claims to tell how ARM came to dominate is even remotely complete without a good paragraph about how MIPS, their biggest competitor, stopped competing and nearly GAVE them the market.
You missed the "up to" part of the deal. That's a very important part. 2Mbps is the max you will ever see
"Up to" only means they don't want to guarantee you'll always get that. They can't, really, with a shared medium like cable. I've used time warner/rr, and they absolutely do give you the maximum speeds all the time, and will indeed give you slightly more speed than that.
It also is likely much slower than that upstream, probably 384K or 512K.
1Mbps up. So wrong again. Not very hard to find out.
What the shit are you going to do with 2Mbps? Netflix will still work, at grainy 480p.
I can only real-time stream DVD-quality video over my internet connection? The horror!
Most video services will shit themselves if you load a decent webpage while streaming over that.
If your video streams are interrupted by other data, your router is entirely to blame for not doing proper QoS.
And 2Mbps is plenty... Hell, Hulu streams down to 450kbps. You could have FOUR people watching different movies/TV shows, simultaneously, and still have room for some web browsing.
This ain't even a vaguely modern connection
Faster than you'll get from most DSL, and 3G networks (without the data caps).
The bottom tier of FIOS is only barely faster at 3/1Mbps, and costs $65/mo for the privilege.
Specialists who actually can do necessary software design and programming in the field are rare, and most of them are already employed under very good terms, or exceptionally idealistic and do not want to help the large megacorp known as google become even bigger and more powerful (ffmpeg crowd). This is not a problem you can throw money at and expect it to be solved.
As one of those specialists, and part of the ffmpeg crowd, I can safely say you're utterly wrong on just about every count.
A narrowband signal is one with a narrow frequency range. A broadband signal is one with a wide frequency range.
No, you're mistakenly thinking of wideband, which is the opposite of narrowband. That is NOT broadband. As I said, broadband consists of multiple orthogonal channels/passbands, and it certainly doesn't matter how narrow or wide they each may be.
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I have not seen ANY service providers that do this...
Time Warner offers the same $15/mo 2/1Mbps internet service EVERYWHERE in their service area. Comcast, Charter, Verizon, AT&T, etc., have their pricing listed on their website, for ANYBODY to look at, without first entering your address.
The service providers might be offering cut-to-the-bone promotional fees where they're losing customers to competitors, but I certainly haven't seen them doing that, either.
After Cox gave me a crazy late-fee, I called to cancel my service. They offered me all kinds of promotions, even though my monstrous apartment complex (several city blocks) was all pre-wired by Cox, and no other wired internet service was available (and LTE was just barely being built). They didn't seem to know I didn't really have any other options.
In lieu of any (better) theories, I'd just go the simple route... Viewer count may have just been terribly low, so the channel not worth keeping on, and removing it made room for another channel that might do better. Nothing related to the merger nor different than how any other channels are managed.
Like I said, without a much better conspiracy theory coming along, with information to back it up... I just don't see the scheme.
This is just a basic "How-to use Netflow on OpenBSD". Nothing more.
IMHO, Netflow is interesting ONLY if you have no other way to gather info from hardware routers/switches. It's the only protocol likely to be supported.
If, however, you can just mirror a port you're interested in (eg. the uplink), as you already would be doing with an IDS and similar, you don't need to bother with Netflow. Instead, you can get all the info you could want, with trivial ease, just by installing and running BandwidthD-2.x: http://bandwidthd.sourceforge....
Anybody can set it up in 15 minutes, and immediately get a user-friendly web page with all the throughput and billing info you'd want, at any resolution you like. If you need in-depth detail, you just need to dive into querying the database directly.
I'm anxiously awaiting software-defined networking taking over, and freeing us from all the horrible limitations and lock-in of expensive network gear. Until then, do everything you can with a computer, and traffic monitoring is absolutely one of those.
I've gotten service from several different cable providers, and NONE of them have ever done ANYTHING of the sort to my connection (except sometimes to bittorrent traffic).
You don't need to go to a speed-test site. Find a large file on any web site (movies on archive.org seem like a good candidate), time the download, and calculate the throughput from the speed.
I have plenty of DD-WRT routers and such, but that's not necessary. People will EASILY be able to see when their big downloads are going a couple orders of magnitude slower than they should. They don't even need to know any of the math to figure out that their connection is X, their work tells them they have about X too, yet one location downloads files MUCH, MUCH faster than the other.
A condom IS NOT JUST BIRTH CONTROL. It is, first and foremost, the only currently viable protection against sexually transmitted disease. Not using one is tantamount to spitting in a stranger's mouth. If someone with HIV doesn't use a condom against their partner's wishes, they will go to jail for some form of murder.
Everybody and their grandmother knows that... Though the NexGen Nx586 beat them to it. Later acquired by AMD.
That is what would be required to meet GP's silly and imaginary Intel roadmap. Except, of course, that wouldn't be "x86" any longer, so it doesn't quite fit.
And *I* certainly never said "we should" do anything of the sort.
Time Warner's $15/mo plan is 2/1Mbps.
Speed already discussed here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
No.
It will take me quite some time to find the 2/3rds source. But a quick visit to WP finds a reasonably similar one:
"49% of total RISC CPU market share in 1997"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not "ridiculous" so much as a minuscule difference that will not have a visible affect on price or performance.
Just wait until Netflix decides they don't like paying for internet access anymore, and tells Comcast that THEY have to run free pipes to their door, or else their customers don't get Netflix anymore. After all, YOU paid Comcast to get Netflix, so, in your imaginary world, Comcast has to do ANYTHING Netflix wants, no matter how badly they act.
Your claim is utterly ridiculous. CPU cache OVERWHELMINGLY dominates the x86/x64 die. Intel/Amd could eliminate ALL processor functions, entirely, and the die STILL wouldn't be "way smaller" (or "way cheaper" for that matter).
Not wearing a condom would certainly count as some degree of assault in most countries. No question a criminal act. That the country it happened in chooses to call it some form of rape is immaterial.
Clearly, samzenpus is the ringleader of this vast, multinational, and multi-billion dollar conspiracy.
I just wonder how he convinced his corporate overlords at Dice to develop the Beta site, and I'm still not QUITE sure how that fits into demonizing Assange.
What message? Assange's only message is that he's perfect, and there's a world-wide grand conspiracy moving heaven and earth to... charge him with fairly minor crimes. He's the head of NOTHING. He has no other interest or goal than himself. It was obvious he was an egomaniac many years ago, so this is hardly a revelation.
There's one simple reason ARM has a strangle-hold on smart phones and tablets... For years, when such devices were being developed, MIPS Technologies was in a shambles. They were reeling from losing SGI, going IPO, and going through the processes of getting acquired by a string of several different companies. They've basically be AWOL this whole time, handing the upstart new market to ARM on a plate.
MIPS is still competitive. They've got extremely low power processors, multi-core 1GHz+ processors, and they've always been more efficient (higher DMIPS/MHz) than ARM. Despite their virtual absence, they're still used extensively in embedded systems... Your printer, WiFi AP/router, many set-top boxes, etc. They used-to have a dominant lead over ARM, selling something like 2/3rds of all embedded CPUs, but they simply fell apart and ceded the market to the competition. They're even the cheaper option... The first $100 Android ICS tablet found in China was MIPS (not ARM) based, and China's ministry of science keeps developing faster MIPS processors for domestic use, including supercomputers.
If they had competed, it might be MIPS in every smart phone. Even now, if they get back on-course, they could pose a real challenge to ARM, and driving prices down, and dividing the market, as Intel is trying to do with little success.
No story that claims to tell how ARM came to dominate is even remotely complete without a good paragraph about how MIPS, their biggest competitor, stopped competing and nearly GAVE them the market.
Simply not true.
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
That's Netflix's problem, then. Hulu absolutely is BETTER than DVD quality at that bitrate.
"Up to" only means they don't want to guarantee you'll always get that. They can't, really, with a shared medium like cable. I've used time warner/rr, and they absolutely do give you the maximum speeds all the time, and will indeed give you slightly more speed than that.
1Mbps up. So wrong again. Not very hard to find out.
I can only real-time stream DVD-quality video over my internet connection? The horror!
If your video streams are interrupted by other data, your router is entirely to blame for not doing proper QoS.
And 2Mbps is plenty... Hell, Hulu streams down to 450kbps. You could have FOUR people watching different movies/TV shows, simultaneously, and still have room for some web browsing.
Faster than you'll get from most DSL, and 3G networks (without the data caps).
The bottom tier of FIOS is only barely faster at 3/1Mbps, and costs $65/mo for the privilege.
As one of those specialists, and part of the ffmpeg crowd, I can safely say you're utterly wrong on just about every count.
2Mbps would be right about 40X faster than dial-up. That's not "barely".
No, they don't. I just went through the process of ordering a $15/mo connection via their website for: 100 MAIN ST , NEW YORK, NY
No, you're mistakenly thinking of wideband, which is the opposite of narrowband. That is NOT broadband. As I said, broadband consists of multiple orthogonal channels/passbands, and it certainly doesn't matter how narrow or wide they each may be.
There's no such thing as an unlimited cellular data plan.