But then there's the possibility you'll still get thrown in jail for doing something that fixes the problem. For example, see the story about Max Butler Here. He released a worm that closed a security hole that another worm was exploiting. Only dumb thing he did was leaving himself a back door into the systems that his worm had corrected the security problem on.
Not real sure why he did that, but it is why he is serving 18 months in Federal prison. Wonder if there wouldn't have been a jail sentence if hadn't left himself a backdoor?
There's a fairly good article here about Qwest adding 160 remote terminals in the Portland, OR area that act as mini central offices/dslams to extend the distance that dsl is available. The article also mentions that Verizon has had 21 of these devices in use in Oregon since 1998. So it's not like Verizon doesn't know that there are workable options to get around distance and/or mixed media problems.
I've been on a Nortel etherloop for about 6 months now. Works great. Latency is much better than another xdsl(Lucent) line that I had prior to switching to the Nortel provider.
Fun part was seeing who else in the area was sitting on the same network. Needless to say a firewall should be mandatory. All sorts of fun things were showing up, printers, servers, personal workstations with file sharing enabled.
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But then there's the possibility you'll still get thrown in jail for doing something that fixes the problem. For example, see the story about Max Butler Here.
He released a worm that closed a security hole that another worm was exploiting. Only dumb thing he did was leaving himself a back door into the systems that his worm had corrected the security problem on.
Not real sure why he did that, but it is why he is serving 18 months in Federal prison. Wonder if there wouldn't have been a jail sentence if hadn't left himself a backdoor?
There's a fairly good article here about Qwest adding 160 remote terminals in the Portland, OR area that act as mini central offices/dslams to extend the distance that dsl is available. The article also mentions that Verizon has had 21 of these devices in use in Oregon since 1998. So it's not like Verizon doesn't know that there are workable options to get around distance and/or mixed media problems.
Blackbirds.org has some great info on the entire blackbird family including the A-12 and the YF-12.
So are you doing any sort of fastest route out so that a request to the static ip is served back via the cable link?
I've been on a Nortel etherloop for about 6 months now. Works great. Latency is much better than another xdsl(Lucent) line that I had prior to switching to the Nortel provider.
Fun part was seeing who else in the area was sitting on the same network. Needless to say a firewall should be mandatory. All sorts of fun things were showing up, printers, servers, personal workstations with file sharing enabled.