First off... I'm a senior at the University of Utah in the Computer Engineering department... The UofU ratio of male to female students is about 1:2. Which means in most situations, I should be in heaven. 2 females for every 1 male?... hrmmmm. Well for the (going on) 5 years that I've been in college in the CE field, I've seen a whole... well 10 females out of the approx 1000 males in me classes. So obviously something's completely messed up w/ that. Through out my schooling, I've spoken w/ quite a few females about why they have chosen the degree that they have, and why it is that they don't enjoy too much computers. EVERY female I have spoken with has said it is because they wouldn't be able to associate with people as much as they would like to. Think about that for a second. When your sitting infront of your monitor (5 monitors in my case), how many people do you actually talk to?... by talk I mean open your mouth and say something. This excludes all inanimate objects and pets. My point exactly.
"How can this be? If you've got 1000 customers at 1.5mb each, it doesn't matter if each of them share bandwidth with 10 other computers, it's still a total of 1.5gb for the ISP. Bad service just means that the ISP wasn't equipped to serve out that much bandwidth in the 1st place."... Ever heard or DDos?... it's the exact concept there. You may not hit your bandwidth cap, but you can sure as hell saturate their redback (which is probobly what they are using to do your PVC routing with the DSLAM provider) with icmp, syn,... requests.
klug.... My work does this too. the whole 150 hour bull S#!t... The reason they do it though is because they probobly rent or lease their POPs(dialup locations) from someone else and just have their radius table IP in the pop's connection... you probobly have to do some weird crap with your username to get it to work too:P (that's so the POP knows where to forward the auth request)... anyways (how did I get sidetracked...) since they rent their pops they have to pay the provider network for each login (usually about 5$ a month per username) and almost all pop networks start charging the s#it out of you (about 4$/hour over 150hours) when you go over 150 hours. AOL does it, msn does it... pretty much every1 that doesn't own their dialup numbers do it. And since all the big providers are either going under or don't offer dialup access as an ISP (just lease the numbers to ISP's) hardly any isp's will allow more than 150 hours.
My work just took over a WiFi network... they named it HotSpotzz (http://www.hotspotzz.com/)..... . and in responce to a lot of peoples questions about different types of WiFi... and the question about the hardware working with Nix... It depends:p... (what a lame answer I know) But If it's a laptop, there are pcmcia slot cards that pick up the frequency. Most ISP's use the cards MAC addy to authenticate them to their towers. For instance, we have a network of wireless repeaters (on top of about 1/2 the MacDonalds in SLC) and you can use any of the SLC repeters if your card auth's.
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First off... I'm a senior at the University of Utah in the Computer Engineering department... The UofU ratio of male to female students is about 1:2. Which means in most situations, I should be in heaven. 2 females for every 1 male?... hrmmmm. Well for the (going on) 5 years that I've been in college in the CE field, I've seen a whole... well 10 females out of the approx 1000 males in me classes. So obviously something's completely messed up w/ that. Through out my schooling, I've spoken w/ quite a few females about why they have chosen the degree that they have, and why it is that they don't enjoy too much computers. EVERY female I have spoken with has said it is because they wouldn't be able to associate with people as much as they would like to. Think about that for a second. When your sitting infront of your monitor (5 monitors in my case), how many people do you actually talk to?... by talk I mean open your mouth and say something. This excludes all inanimate objects and pets. My point exactly.
"How can this be? If you've got 1000 customers at 1.5mb each, it doesn't matter if each of them share bandwidth with 10 other computers, it's still a total of 1.5gb for the ISP. Bad service just means that the ISP wasn't equipped to serve out that much bandwidth in the 1st place."... Ever heard or DDos?... it's the exact concept there. You may not hit your bandwidth cap, but you can sure as hell saturate their redback (which is probobly what they are using to do your PVC routing with the DSLAM provider) with icmp, syn, ... requests.
klug.... My work does this too. the whole 150 hour bull S#!t... The reason they do it though is because they probobly rent or lease their POPs(dialup locations) from someone else and just have their radius table IP in the pop's connection... you probobly have to do some weird crap with your username to get it to work too :P (that's so the POP knows where to forward the auth request)... anyways (how did I get sidetracked...) since they rent their pops they have to pay the provider network for each login (usually about 5$ a month per username) and almost all pop networks start charging the s#it out of you (about 4$/hour over 150hours) when you go over 150 hours. AOL does it, msn does it... pretty much every1 that doesn't own their dialup numbers do it. And since all the big providers are either going under or don't offer dialup access as an ISP (just lease the numbers to ISP's) hardly any isp's will allow more than 150 hours.
My work just took over a WiFi network... they named it HotSpotzz (http://www.hotspotzz.com/)... .. . and in responce to a lot of peoples questions about different types of WiFi... and the question about the hardware working with Nix... It depends :p... (what a lame answer I know) But If it's a laptop, there are pcmcia slot cards that pick up the frequency. Most ISP's use the cards MAC addy to authenticate them to their towers. For instance, we have a network of wireless repeaters (on top of about 1/2 the MacDonalds in SLC) and you can use any of the SLC repeters if your card auth's.