AOL did provide it as a choice for users, they were uneducated enough to do it themselves yet were still complaining. You can find such references in the article. Please read it.
Saying AOL is breaking into their system is just trolling. They are already AOL customers, receiveid an AOL software update for which they're paying a fee for the AOL service (and the required software for the AOL service, remember AOL isn't just internet access. Those of us that remember prodigy, compuserve, etc.. know this quite clearly).
If you're an AOL customer, complain. If you're not, tell your friends and family to stop using them and why you think that's the case and let them make that choice themselves. This is clearly something you purport to support in your statements.
You're not talking about your "Average" ISP. AOL software uses a VPN client to connect you into the private aol-exclusive content. If this was done by earthlink or some other provider that just provides you ppp and unfiltered bits to the world, then yes, it's a bit more fuzzy, but you need to have the AOL software, and this could be covered by their EULA. People may not like it, but if you don't, use a different provider or OS that doesn't have these issues. I for one defend AOL for taking a good security stance in disabling a service 99.9% of the people likely don't know is running on their system, and for which they could be compromised via.
I don't know about the AOL software EULA, it could permit such patching/changing of registry settings. They could also say that it was done in order to preserve the security of their network (ie: having millions of compromised machines via the latest messenger exploit). I don't see anything clearly illegal here.
This is a good thing. Windows messenger is not used by the bulk of the AOL userbase except to receive spam. Disabling something that should have been off by default already and enabled in a true lan/office environment will provide them a better user experience. It will also close one more possible way their possibly unpatched machines will become compromised.
I for one hope that AOL starts distributing the Microsoft patches on their CDs and via their service as well as part of their AOL software updates to encourage people to get the most recent software patches.
(fp?)
CCTV.com can also provide you with chinese local news. I'm watching CCTV9 (english) on DirecTV currently. It's on their 110 satellite, so you need the "oval dish" and compatible receiver. Channel 455. Not surprising, Nasa TV has no coverage.
Hopefully this will cause NASA and the US gov't to focus more on the need for ongoing space exploration.
A more effective approach is to ask them to put you on their do not call list. Each telemarketing firm is required to keep and use a do not call list. Unscrupulous telemarketing busnesses can call you anyway, but are subject to FCC fines, etc. After a few of these calls, you will see a reduction in the number of solicitous calls. It won't eliminate them, but it does help.
Something i've found useful (and this requires interaction with USPS) in reducing the number of calls I get at home was to register directly with the DMA to no longer be called/mailed/whatnot from their members. I don't need to fill up my trash can, fireplace, or recycling bin with the junk they mail me. Here's the link so you can do the same for yourself. Yes, it requires a stamp, printer and envelope but I place the cost of printing and mailing close to $1 for most people. As I work from home, this has been necessary and helps get my name off
the lists. Also, be sure to pay close attention each time a company you do business with mails you a copy of their privacy policy. American Express provided a nice form in one of the bill envelopes to fill out and mail-in saying I did not want to be bothered by their partners. Be sure to pay attention to what is in those envelopes even if you pay your bill online (as I do) to not miss those important chances to reduce the junk that fills up your phone line, email box, or postal box from companies.
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So, I live in a fairly high-tech savvy town, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The area where I reside is out in Scio Township. I am a work at home employee for my company, and having moved out here last year went through quite an ordeal to get any sort of high speed connectivity. They needed to install a repeater shelf at a cost of somewhere around $3k, as well as use HSDL4 due to the distances involved. Mind you, I'm no more than 4 miles away from the nearest fiber hut as the roads drive, and the major street I'm near has fiber out there but it can't be used.
My neighbors are all stuck behind 28.8k modems. I've tried to get the local cable company Comcast to bring their cable down the street but they are unwilling. There is no choice for DSL or anything else due to our "remote" location.
This is after they (comcast) have moved their technical support out here (scio township). I'm still lobbying them to be required to provide service (I'd rather have cable so I can receive CBC and watch HNIC instead of the worse ESPN coverage and back myself up with a cable modem... I feel for my neighbors.
You are overestimating the power of the routing equipment that ISPs have deployed. Filtering is not as easy as you might think. There is *significant* performance impacts depending on platform, vendor and even software release. If you're too dumb to operate your machine securely, don't connect it to the network. Period. I work for an ISP that operates an international network, the only network-wide filters that have lived for more than a few hours are the ms-sql slammer ones, and we had zero customer complaints. There is a *lot* of legit tcp/135 and tcp/445 activity out there, so we can't do this for you all. Plus the vendors don't provide good ways to put filtering on all the interfaces or automatically push these things out to hundreds (or thousands) of routers with ease. This is one reason I (and others have looked at) some automated protocol to push out such filters and updates. If you're interested and so inclined, please check this out.
Best thing (in my mind) is to set the registry keys so windows downloads and has prepared (or just installs) all the patches necessary. Might slow down a few dialup users but then again
i'd rather have their bw be used patching their systems than DoS'ing my mailbox and network.
Speaking as a vonage user who does not have 911 activiated (I use vonage as a second telephone line), I think that users that activate their 911 service should have to pay to the state/local authorities the necessary monies. The issue I see here as it relates to Vonage and 911 is quite complex. I can take my ata-186 and plug it in here at home, or with me anyplace else I go. This obviously poses a challenge for providing emergency services, but I remember the days (albeit not that long ago) where 911 did not exist. You had to call the local police/fire/poison control centers. While having a standard is a good thing in most cases, people who make a conscious choice here shouldn't be punished (IMHO).
Vonage also makes the issue very complex. For $ (N*5) I can get a telephone number that is local to N cities where they offer service. Should those telephone numbers be subject to such 911 fees in each locality, or should you only pay once per telephone number? What if you add a vonage fax line, it's never used for voice, are you required to pay for 911
fees on that as well?
I don't see that the PUCs are out to squash VoIP as a threat, just something that will require some rules to be made regarding 911 service availability, and perhaps some far more interesting things to happen, including giving locations of specific IP addresses to emergency responders. If I know that MIT has 18.0.0.0/8, and each subnet is a/16 (for example) and they have the addresses of these buildings
available, why not have a registry (oh wait, there is, whois/rwhois.. but) of these available, so vonage can say "here's where that ip is". Obviously a very thorny privacy issue as well, because if everyones favorite 4 leter ?IAA org had access as well, you'd keep your file trading down quite a bit i'm sure:).
Back on topic:
No easy solution here, the PUC's don't care how the telephone service works behind the scenes, be it via POTS, VoIP, just that it works and that the required things are done (eg: 911 service in Minnesota). Vonage can always lobby there that they should be exempt and that whomever they're using (Probally focal, as you can see here: npa nxx lookup) to get their blocks of DIDs from should or is already paying such fees. Hopefully they're paying them to focal, the issue is should it be one fee per DS1 (DID) service, or one fee per number assigned to that T1 trunk.
Since Windows ME(tm) Microsoft has provided a control panel extension to automatically download the recent patches and notify you when they're ready for installation. A mixed approach of this and the way MacOS X handles this (check daily, and pop up a window) and having this setting be default will provide for a more secure and security conscious public.
I think this is a good thing for the Internet community as a whole, it's no longer all the redhat 3.0.3 boxes being rooted, it's WinME, 2k and later in the majority that i've been watching over the past years.
Here in Michigan the lottery funds the public schools. What they didn't make clear when selling this to the public was that it would not augment the school budgets, just take an equal amount of money away and put it back into the general fund.
They can already track you at WDW. There's this fancy contraption called fast-pass. You insert your resort key (which can also be used to charge at most anyplace on WDW property to your resort room), or your park ticket. I'd be more worried about them trying to read the data off your cell phone that can provide your location, or off of your FRS radios you are using to chat with your family/friends at the park.
I don't mean to flame you, but I'd like to address the technical issues surrounding your statements.
Backbones are already upgrading to IPv6 enabled software and hardware. My employer has plans to run dual-stack IPv4 IPv6 later this year which means that any existing IPv4 customer can give us a call saying "enable v6" and we can do it that day. (assuming they have their hardware/software in place). No tunneling, no 6to4 gateways, it'll just work. I see no long-term viability of the 6to4 gateways, in the same way that we didn't see caches go mainstream for every internet user. (yeah yeah, some of you will claim bittorrent is a large distributed cache, and while that might be the case, i'm talking about for most of the general public, the AOL/IE users that don't know how to spell IP).
If you also see one of my previous comments on IPv6 here about who is supporting it (note, what you might define as a backbone isn't what the rest of the network might..) and has existing routes in the tables, you'll get an idea of who is at least prepared for the new future of impossible to read ip addresses.
If everyone runs dual-stack v4v6, you'll see the ability to access your existing services while continuing to be able to gain access to the IPv6 content. Personally, I've seen that in cases like where a RedHat release comes out, I can get faster transfer rates going to the IPv6 mirror than the IPv4 mirror. Everyone is hammering the v4, which makes the v6 available for me:). I'm just waiting for Linksys (now cisco) and the other consumer product people to realize that they need to upgrade their devices so they can do IPv6 nat for those cablemodem routers, etc..
Here's where I think that the local loop (dsl, cable) providers can go and start to seriously make money and make IPv6 viable: IPv6 enable your network, then offer VoIP services over SIP enabled devices. This way you don't run out of numbering space (ip and pstn). (Trivia: how many ips would it take to convert the existing PSTN network to VoIP, if each phone number required an IP address).
I'm glad that the time has come for this registry to come online. Now all we need is some similar regulation and compulsory checking for E-Mail addresses against such a registry.
For those of you that are upset you have to submit your email address, I suggest either using a throwaway free account (hotmail, etc..) or generate some ftc only account on your mail server/system/host for this.
I'm a bit upset that i've not received the e-mail confimation yet from their system, and I did have some concern about the "what ifs" of the registry were to become compromised. It would open up some interesting litigation on the telemarketers part against the FTC if they can't "trust the data". I wonder how long until someone can write an email bot that will confirm the registrations and submit every possible phone number to the do-not-call list. I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to do.
Yes, a majority of it does seep back into the ground. Most of my neighbors have the same system and discharge it into ponds on their property.
It should be noted that it is also possible to use a closed-loop system whereby you lay a series of underground pipes on your property far enough down that you take advantage of the moderating tempratures of the ground and have sufficent water to keep the temp down. Here's a link to more information. How it works I was very concerned when i bought the place last year about it but it's worked flawlessly. I'm located in Michigan so we do get our fair share of heat and cold as the seasons change.
Interesting as there are a few of us out there that use geothermal cooling for our households. Mine is an example. I have an open-loop geothermal system that pumps water out of my well and discharges it elsewhere on my property. It works very well in both the summer and winter to keep my house in my comfort zone. Now all I need to do is redirect some of that cooling power to my equipment in the basement.
I work for an ISP, and was on a VoIP call during the time when the ms-sql slammer stuff hit the internet as a whole. Even with the saturation that added to the networks, there was no problems communicating with the other parties. We eventually conferenced a few other people in as we were coming up with our filtering strategy.
There should also be a clear seperation between the facts and guesses from the/. community. This will provide considerable savings to Telus even if all they do is convert their existing DS3 (m13)/DS1 trunks into IP based trunks with some seperate equipment from their existing IP network. Because of the way most of the VoIP things work, they will actually [likely] see a decrease of overall "network" traffic as they are able to locally switch most of the traffic. How many times have you called your neighbor next door? What if that traffic now can stay on your local cable/dsl/whatnot segment and not have to establish a 56/64k fixed bandwidth allotment all the way to the CO and back. Locally routing (or switching) the traffic will increase overall network capacity.
And for those of you that are concerned about call quality, yes, it's true, if you are using some VoIP hardware (Cisco7960 for example), it actually seems too quiet. There isn't that background noise. I've been on international multi-isp VoIP calls before and the call quality has been better than via the existing PSTN.
(aside: I didn't realize most people considered sbc a real provider, while they have customers, etc.. outside the DSL community. While not unimportant, slow moving goliaths such as SBC that are stuck under various regularatory hurdles they have had to clear to provide intra-LATA service, the old bell companies haven't been that adopting of internet based technologies and I would not expect them to be a leader in this arena).
Looking at the IPv6 routing table as visible and available via telnet at route-views6.routeviews.org [type sh bgp] (also visit routeviews.org main website), you can see that NTT/Verio (AS2914), Global Crossing (AS3549), MFN (AS6461), Sprintlink (AS6175) [note, this isn't their IPv4 network ASN of 1239], KPN/QWESTFI (AS790) routes are seen in the pas for AS209 (Qwest).
The current ATT network was created out of the old ibm as well as other networks, i'm not going to read the entire ipv6 routing table (well, it is short enough to read actually, but i'm being lazy) to check for one of the many ATT legacy ASNs or SBC ASNs that they may be using to operate their IPv6 network. I suggest checking 6bone pTLA listing or with the Regional Internet Registry for people that have been assigned IPv6 address space. In the US at least, it's an InterNIC-type company (remember inernic?) called ARIN
A large number of providers offer IPv6 support today. NTT/Verio has been offering this as a Commercial Service for quite some time, as well as through the domestic provider OCN and the OCN DSL services. As the 6bone tunneled networks go away, there is ongoing native support being added to networks. IETF and other conferences have been supporting providers that offer native IPv6 services.
Aside from the always behind the ball DSL/Cable providers in the edge provider space of multicast, IPv6, etc.. you can contact any of the Tier-1
networks to obtain IPv6 services. Likely for free and not out of the 3FFE space.
Build IPv6 into your kernels, ask your service providers for IPv6 and encourage them to provide these to you for little/no additional cost. Juniper and Cisco routers currently offer IPv6 in their current software releases. Now that Cisco has acquired Linksys, hopefully they will assist in providing support for these services in the edge-router space.
I've found that everyone who gets a TiVo that I know can't imagine going back to life without it. The interesting market this opens up is "TiVo" insurance. It makes that aftermarket insurance at circuit city and best buy actually worthwhile once you get ingrained in the TiVo lifestyle. It is wonderful to go away for a few days, socialize with friends and know that you can not worry about missing your shows (except when the most annoying thing happens that is when the IR unit doesn't quite change the channel correctly on the sat/digi cable box).
I'm hoping that TiVo and the digital cable and satellite people will see the need for some new universal system for controlling the channel changing that is reliable.
I'm also hoping that TiVo will gain the ability with home networking options and future software updates to operate in an inteligent manner load-sharing recording between two units if they are so interconnected. While my schedule conflicts are becoming more minimal these days as we being to prune down the season pass list as we've seen all the reruns of shows to the point of absolute memorization... there are times when we'd like to record two things at the same time.
hmm. guess i need to go back and check my math. either way, 250mil
calls at once is a lot more than the pstn sees today. if you exclude dialup it goes down even further. i know that LD companies file their billed ld minutes someplace, does someone know if there is aggregated data
somewhere?
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Saying AOL is breaking into their system is just trolling. They are already AOL customers, receiveid an AOL software update for which they're paying a fee for the AOL service (and the required software for the AOL service, remember AOL isn't just internet access. Those of us that remember prodigy, compuserve, etc.. know this quite clearly).
If you're an AOL customer, complain. If you're not, tell your friends and family to stop using them and why you think that's the case and let them make that choice themselves. This is clearly something you purport to support in your statements.
You're not talking about your "Average" ISP. AOL software uses a VPN client to connect you into the private aol-exclusive content. If this was done by earthlink or some other provider that just provides you ppp and unfiltered bits to the world, then yes, it's a bit more fuzzy, but you need to have the AOL software, and this could be covered by their EULA. People may not like it, but if you don't, use a different provider or OS that doesn't have these issues. I for one defend AOL for taking a good security stance in disabling a service 99.9% of the people likely don't know is running on their system, and for which they could be compromised via.
I don't know about the AOL software EULA, it could permit such patching/changing of registry settings. They could also say that it was done in order to preserve the security of their network (ie: having millions of compromised machines via the latest messenger exploit). I don't see anything clearly illegal here.
I for one hope that AOL starts distributing the Microsoft patches on their CDs and via their service as well as part of their AOL software updates to encourage people to get the most recent software patches. (fp?)
Hopefully this will cause NASA and the US gov't to focus more on the need for ongoing space exploration.
Seems like write/talk (for us *nix people) also did the same thing. Two systems that I learned a lot of my *nix skills on back "in the day", GREX and M-Net had a version of write that was written by Jan Wolter. The link to his version can be found here
Something i've found useful (and this requires interaction with USPS) in reducing the number of calls I get at home was to register directly with the DMA to no longer be called/mailed/whatnot from their members. I don't need to fill up my trash can, fireplace, or recycling bin with the junk they mail me. Here's the link so you can do the same for yourself. Yes, it requires a stamp, printer and envelope but I place the cost of printing and mailing close to $1 for most people. As I work from home, this has been necessary and helps get my name off the lists. Also, be sure to pay close attention each time a company you do business with mails you a copy of their privacy policy. American Express provided a nice form in one of the bill envelopes to fill out and mail-in saying I did not want to be bothered by their partners. Be sure to pay attention to what is in those envelopes even if you pay your bill online (as I do) to not miss those important chances to reduce the junk that fills up your phone line, email box, or postal box from companies.
My neighbors are all stuck behind 28.8k modems. I've tried to get the local cable company Comcast to bring their cable down the street but they are unwilling. There is no choice for DSL or anything else due to our "remote" location.
This is after they (comcast) have moved their technical support out here (scio township). I'm still lobbying them to be required to provide service (I'd rather have cable so I can receive CBC and watch HNIC instead of the worse ESPN coverage and back myself up with a cable modem... I feel for my neighbors.
You are overestimating the power of the routing equipment that ISPs have deployed. Filtering is not as easy as you might think. There is *significant* performance impacts depending on platform, vendor and even software release. If you're too dumb to operate your machine securely, don't connect it to the network. Period. I work for an ISP that operates an international network, the only network-wide filters that have lived for more than a few hours are the ms-sql slammer ones, and we had zero customer complaints. There is a *lot* of legit tcp/135 and tcp/445 activity out there, so we can't do this for you all. Plus the vendors don't provide good ways to put filtering on all the interfaces or automatically push these things out to hundreds (or thousands) of routers with ease. This is one reason I (and others have looked at) some automated protocol to push out such filters and updates. If you're interested and so inclined, please check this out.
Best thing (in my mind) is to set the registry keys so windows downloads and has prepared (or just installs) all the patches necessary. Might slow down a few dialup users but then again i'd rather have their bw be used patching their systems than DoS'ing my mailbox and network.
Vonage also makes the issue very complex. For $ (N*5) I can get a telephone number that is local to N cities where they offer service. Should those telephone numbers be subject to such 911 fees in each locality, or should you only pay once per telephone number? What if you add a vonage fax line, it's never used for voice, are you required to pay for 911 fees on that as well?
I don't see that the PUCs are out to squash VoIP as a threat, just something that will require some rules to be made regarding 911 service availability, and perhaps some far more interesting things to happen, including giving locations of specific IP addresses to emergency responders. If I know that MIT has 18.0.0.0/8, and each subnet is a /16 (for example) and they have the addresses of these buildings
available, why not have a registry (oh wait, there is, whois/rwhois.. but) of these available, so vonage can say "here's where that ip is". Obviously a very thorny privacy issue as well, because if everyones favorite 4 leter ?IAA org had access as well, you'd keep your file trading down quite a bit i'm sure :).
Back on topic:
No easy solution here, the PUC's don't care how the telephone service works behind the scenes, be it via POTS, VoIP, just that it works and that the required things are done (eg: 911 service in Minnesota). Vonage can always lobby there that they should be exempt and that whomever they're using (Probally focal, as you can see here: npa nxx lookup) to get their blocks of DIDs from should or is already paying such fees. Hopefully they're paying them to focal, the issue is should it be one fee per DS1 (DID) service, or one fee per number assigned to that T1 trunk.
puck:~> grep MDLOG /var/log/maillog | grep bad_filename | wc -l /var/log/maillog.Wed | grep bad_filename | wc -l /var/log/maillog.Tue | grep bad_filename | wc -l /var/log/maillog.Mon | grep bad_filename | wc -l
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puck:~> grep MDLOG
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puck:~> grep MDLOG
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puck:~> grep MDLOG
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I think this is a good thing for the Internet community as a whole, it's no longer all the redhat 3.0.3 boxes being rooted, it's WinME, 2k and later in the majority that i've been watching over the past years.
Here are a few links.
They can already track you at WDW. There's this fancy contraption called fast-pass. You insert your resort key (which can also be used to charge at most anyplace on WDW property to your resort room), or your park ticket. I'd be more worried about them trying to read the data off your cell phone that can provide your location, or off of your FRS radios you are using to chat with your family/friends at the park.
Backbones are already upgrading to IPv6 enabled software and hardware. My employer has plans to run dual-stack IPv4 IPv6 later this year which means that any existing IPv4 customer can give us a call saying "enable v6" and we can do it that day. (assuming they have their hardware/software in place). No tunneling, no 6to4 gateways, it'll just work. I see no long-term viability of the 6to4 gateways, in the same way that we didn't see caches go mainstream for every internet user. (yeah yeah, some of you will claim bittorrent is a large distributed cache, and while that might be the case, i'm talking about for most of the general public, the AOL/IE users that don't know how to spell IP).
If you also see one of my previous comments on IPv6 here about who is supporting it (note, what you might define as a backbone isn't what the rest of the network might..) and has existing routes in the tables, you'll get an idea of who is at least prepared for the new future of impossible to read ip addresses.
If everyone runs dual-stack v4v6, you'll see the ability to access your existing services while continuing to be able to gain access to the IPv6 content. Personally, I've seen that in cases like where a RedHat release comes out, I can get faster transfer rates going to the IPv6 mirror than the IPv4 mirror. Everyone is hammering the v4, which makes the v6 available for me :). I'm just waiting for Linksys (now cisco) and the other consumer product people to realize that they need to upgrade their devices so they can do IPv6 nat for those cablemodem routers, etc..
Here's where I think that the local loop (dsl, cable) providers can go and start to seriously make money and make IPv6 viable: IPv6 enable your network, then offer VoIP services over SIP enabled devices. This way you don't run out of numbering space (ip and pstn). (Trivia: how many ips would it take to convert the existing PSTN network to VoIP, if each phone number required an IP address).
For those of you that are upset you have to submit your email address, I suggest either using a throwaway free account (hotmail, etc..) or generate some ftc only account on your mail server/system/host for this. I'm a bit upset that i've not received the e-mail confimation yet from their system, and I did have some concern about the "what ifs" of the registry were to become compromised. It would open up some interesting litigation on the telemarketers part against the FTC if they can't "trust the data". I wonder how long until someone can write an email bot that will confirm the registrations and submit every possible phone number to the do-not-call list. I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to do.
Yes, a majority of it does seep back into the ground. Most of my neighbors have the same system and discharge it into ponds on their property.
It should be noted that it is also possible to use a closed-loop system whereby you lay a series of underground pipes on your property far enough down that you take advantage of the moderating tempratures of the ground and have sufficent water to keep the temp down. Here's a link to more information. How it works I was very concerned when i bought the place last year about it but it's worked flawlessly. I'm located in Michigan so we do get our fair share of heat and cold as the seasons change.
Interesting as there are a few of us out there that use geothermal cooling for our households. Mine is an example. I have an open-loop geothermal system that pumps water out of my well and discharges it elsewhere on my property. It works very well in both the summer and winter to keep my house in my comfort zone. Now all I need to do is redirect some of that cooling power to my equipment in the basement.
I work for an ISP, and was on a VoIP call during the time when the ms-sql slammer stuff hit the internet as a whole. Even with the saturation that added to the networks, there was no problems communicating with the other parties. We eventually conferenced a few other people in as we were coming up with our filtering strategy. There should also be a clear seperation between the facts and guesses from the /. community. This will provide considerable savings to Telus even if all they do is convert their existing DS3 (m13)/DS1 trunks into IP based trunks with some seperate equipment from their existing IP network. Because of the way most of the VoIP things work, they will actually [likely] see a decrease of overall "network" traffic as they are able to locally switch most of the traffic. How many times have you called your neighbor next door? What if that traffic now can stay on your local cable/dsl/whatnot segment and not have to establish a 56/64k fixed bandwidth allotment all the way to the CO and back. Locally routing (or switching) the traffic will increase overall network capacity.
And for those of you that are concerned about call quality, yes, it's true, if you are using some VoIP hardware (Cisco7960 for example), it actually seems too quiet. There isn't that background noise. I've been on international multi-isp VoIP calls before and the call quality has been better than via the existing PSTN.
The current ATT network was created out of the old ibm as well as other networks, i'm not going to read the entire ipv6 routing table (well, it is short enough to read actually, but i'm being lazy) to check for one of the many ATT legacy ASNs or SBC ASNs that they may be using to operate their IPv6 network. I suggest checking 6bone pTLA listing or with the Regional Internet Registry for people that have been assigned IPv6 address space. In the US at least, it's an InterNIC-type company (remember inernic?) called ARIN
A large number of providers offer IPv6 support today. NTT/Verio has been offering this as a Commercial Service for quite some time, as well as through the domestic provider OCN and the OCN DSL services. As the 6bone tunneled networks go away, there is ongoing native support being added to networks. IETF and other conferences have been supporting providers that offer native IPv6 services. Aside from the always behind the ball DSL/Cable providers in the edge provider space of multicast, IPv6, etc.. you can contact any of the Tier-1 networks to obtain IPv6 services. Likely for free and not out of the 3FFE space. Build IPv6 into your kernels, ask your service providers for IPv6 and encourage them to provide these to you for little/no additional cost. Juniper and Cisco routers currently offer IPv6 in their current software releases. Now that Cisco has acquired Linksys, hopefully they will assist in providing support for these services in the edge-router space.
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I've found that everyone who gets a TiVo that I know can't imagine going back to life without it. The interesting market this opens up is "TiVo" insurance. It makes that aftermarket insurance at circuit city and best buy actually worthwhile once you get ingrained in the TiVo lifestyle. It is wonderful to go away for a few days, socialize with friends and know that you can not worry about missing your shows (except when the most annoying thing happens that is when the IR unit doesn't quite change the channel correctly on the sat/digi cable box). I'm hoping that TiVo and the digital cable and satellite people will see the need for some new universal system for controlling the channel changing that is reliable. I'm also hoping that TiVo will gain the ability with home networking options and future software updates to operate in an inteligent manner load-sharing recording between two units if they are so interconnected. While my schedule conflicts are becoming more minimal these days as we being to prune down the season pass list as we've seen all the reruns of shows to the point of absolute memorization... there are times when we'd like to record two things at the same time.
hmm. guess i need to go back and check my math. either way, 250mil calls at once is a lot more than the pstn sees today. if you exclude dialup it goes down even further. i know that LD companies file their billed ld minutes someplace, does someone know if there is aggregated data somewhere?