I used to think this. I once bought the Dlink 624 router and it did exactly as you described. It would reboot constantly... every 5 seconds.
I ripped that thing to shreads by word of mouth... I bought the linksys WRT54gs and returned the dlink-624 router...
That was a couple years ago...
Fast foward to today... I was very concerned about the dlink 624 that FIOS gives you. I had FIOS installed a few months ago and it turned out that the Linksys WRT54GS would SLOW MY SPEED DOWN. It would cut 10mb from the service because it couldnt keep up.
The Dlink 624 that i was given by Verizon with my FIOS install, runs at a full 30/5 mb service consistantly. AND there are no reboots.
The reboot problem that i experienced a year ago, does not happen at all with this Dlink 624.
BTW Verizon has custom firmware for the Dlink 624 that they give you.
The router is performing extremely well and I cant explain why.
Like i said, i bitched about the dlink 624 for a long time and praised my linksys but... that situation is now reversed oddly enough and i cant explain why the Dlink 624 works so well now.
Verizon does NOT cut the copper to your house. They will do so if you request... because they offer phone service through their fiber (NOT VOIP) And its all on battery backup as well.
BUT... You the installer will ask you if you want to keep the copper or not. They will ask. If they dont, you can mention it and ask them to not remove it.
I have FIOS 30/5 service and i love it. I'm lucky enough to be in a Cablevision market and FIOS 30/5 is offered for $50 a month
The install process is a few hours long. I'm proud to be the first person in my area to have it. (I've had a few months now) I cant tell you how happy i am to no longer be a Cablevision Optonline broadband subscriber. I was one of the first Optonline subscribers and saw their service degrade horribly over the years.
FIOS has forced OOL to "BOOST" their speeds but they're still plagued by the same upload usage caps and harrasment.
FIOS is the internet as it should have been 10 years ago. Every house in America should have had Fiber 10 years ago.
If you can at all get Fiber and the service provider is capable of actually delivering on its promises (like Verizon FIOS) then by all means look into it.
I'm hardly a coporate fanboy but Verizon has done right this time. They made a very bold and expensive move by rolling out Fiber services to the house. Other companies should be as bold. Cablevision once was... and they may be again some day.
The great thing about Fios is that it will wake up the broadband world. We demand speed... So the Broadband providers of the world better deliver.
I get solid performance and I really cant be anymore happier with FIOS. Well if they gave me 100/50;)
Anyways... Bravo to any company willing to advance our civilization by not holding back technology and delivering it to the people.
Oh I agree. Its yet to be seen if Nintendo's move will be effective, but its clear that they are out numbered, or out "teched" in this case.
Nintendo is certainly going to try to be creative and that is the right move considering nintendo's situation.
I'm not saying nintendo is a bad company. I'm saying they are at a severe disadvantage on the technology front and now they're going to be creative to try to make up for it. I dont know if it will work, it certainly could... But one thing is for sure Nintendo is clearly trying new ideas to survive because its failing badly in image and clearly it cant compete with the hardware.
I'm not saying nintendo made the wrong move. I'm just pointing out the bullshit in their spinning PR.
I'm well aware that the PSP is a flop. We're talking consoles.
The fact that nintendo's DS is outselling PSP is just more proof of my point that Nintendo cant compete when it comes to technology, but instead has to compete with inventive design.
PSP is far superior to the DS (hardware wise). Nintendo's DS is a peice of junk in every aspect when you look at its hardware. HOWEVER It has a touch screen, and of course it has great games like Advance Wars.
Nintendo's only hope is to compete with their radical ideas, rather than their inferior technology. Thank you for prooving my point.
My point is Nintendo is spinning the bullshit yarn on this Wii issue. Nintendo cant deliver the same quality hardware, so instead its going to try to do something new with interactive design.
Will it work?
We'll find out, but it certainly is a sign of death for nintendo when they cant keep up with todays technology.
Nintendo is dead. They're spinning this because they are out of the technology loop. Sony is spending far more money than Nintendo on new technology because they can afford to. Nintendo can not compete and they are now trying to spin it.
They may come out with an innovative controller (or not) but they simply cant compete with Microsoft and Sony. Nintendo hasnt had enough success to compete on the buisness end of things and their brand name is associated with a "toyish" second class videogame company where as Sony is considered a major entertainment company with a high end video game console.
Nintendo is in trouble....
Thats not to say the Wii wont or can not succeed. It could infact make Nintendo great once again. I doubt it but it could happen.
Its just clear that they have to take a hit this generation and shift their strategy towards new ideas, rather than best technology. Its the classic "outsmart your enemy with the bigger and better army, by using creative thinking"
well considering that in my area, you may remember this in the national news, but a group of highschool football players shoved a pinecone up another teammates ass causing serious damage.
Also a kid from my area, is a suspect in that lacrosse team rape story you heard about on national news...
I'm in total agreement about sports... and i like sports just the way they are.
Its when we go too far, that things get us in trouble. Thats where parenting comes into play.
Do we laugh at the idea of kicking a baby... I sure do.
BUT do we actually kick a baby?
Most of us would never dare think of doing it in reality, but there are those few.
So what really is the problem here? Videogames? Sports? TV? Movies? Art? Speech? or humanity itself?
We are the one common aspect to all of the things we blaim for the behavior of humans...
It starts with us.... our parents.
These politicians are just out for a photo op. Senators/congressmen dont do anything on TV anyways unless its for PR. Ever watch C-Span? How much debate is actually taking place in the senate or the house? Very little. Most officials dont even show up because they are busy fund raising.
Our bills are written by lobbiests and "sponsered" by officials.
Its either an election year, or its time for the videogame lobby to pay up.
Dont worry, nothing will happen, and it if it does, you really cant do anything about it anyways because the government is out of control and beyond the reach of Americans.
Is that we've been picked on in our lives and now we develope these horrible tools to get back at the world just cause we can, and it can be sold for lots of money to power hungry old people with visions of world domination.
See... be nice to the weird kid folks...
seriously, why do people create tools like this? Is there really a market for it? Who is this market? Law enforcement perhaps, but what right do they have to log everyones doing? We're private citizens, so why is company allowed to develope such spying tools? Isnt this the same as spyware and trojans? Whats the difference between this and a root kit? In the big picture, they are still spying on us, and these are citizen companies making tools to do this. Thats no different than some kid making a trojan to steal info from zombie computres. Its illegal in my eyes.
Why is a company allowed to do this and a teenager with his latest worm/keylogger not?
Their entire company is based on breaking the law, isnt it?
What happened to privacy?
Oh its the net, we're not guarranteed privacy cause its public? bah. Dangerouns line to walk... especially when they're hell bend on making encryption illegal. What privacy will we be allowed to have on the net?
Funny how i said "what privacy will we be allowed to have..."
Meow... I have to say this guy is right... Meow... This is a marketing trick... Meow... Microsoft playing catch up to Itunes... Meow.... Just like Vista playing catch up to OSX... Meow... Dam why cant i stop meowing?
I have a huge problem with windows media player. Microsoft does not support a good step through frame commend, reverse playback, or quicktime like encoding features with export/import of frame sequences etc.
I always use Windows Media Player Classic because it does so much more than the media player when it comes to playback control and it works better overall, and has a better interface.
Microsoft is trying to make it into itunes, rather than turning it into a real media player. It is a one big button ui. Any advanced video control functionality is either missing or hidden (i cant find them)
They may have a pretty skin, but the player itself always falls short of being a real video player.
They want to be itunes, and not a real video player for all who need it. Apple does it far better with quicktime on the Mac, and their PC version while not as good as the mac version is still useable for content creators/video editors.
The Microsoft Media Player on the other hand is a toy, thats chasing Itunes.
My music is already in Itunes Microsoft... If the media player 11 interfaces with my Ipod i'll maybe consider it, until then... i dont really care about the itunes like features.
Microsoft has always been late to the party, and they do this weasel like catch up strategy, that never satisfies...
WMP 11 is just another Microsoft mess. Get it right or get rid of it. Its fucking version 11 already.... How many versions do you need before you add real video playback controls?
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IF they own it, why do people pay $300 for it?
I have Vonage, and it runs perfectly fine on my FIOS 30/5 service.
I used to think this. I once bought the Dlink 624 router and it did exactly as you described. It would reboot constantly... every 5 seconds.
I ripped that thing to shreads by word of mouth... I bought the linksys WRT54gs and returned the dlink-624 router...
That was a couple years ago...
Fast foward to today... I was very concerned about the dlink 624 that FIOS gives you. I had FIOS installed a few months ago and it turned out that the Linksys WRT54GS would SLOW MY SPEED DOWN. It would cut 10mb from the service because it couldnt keep up.
The Dlink 624 that i was given by Verizon with my FIOS install, runs at a full 30/5 mb service consistantly. AND there are no reboots.
The reboot problem that i experienced a year ago, does not happen at all with this Dlink 624.
BTW Verizon has custom firmware for the Dlink 624 that they give you.
The router is performing extremely well and I cant explain why.
Like i said, i bitched about the dlink 624 for a long time and praised my linksys but... that situation is now reversed oddly enough and i cant explain why the Dlink 624 works so well now.
I have FIOS 30/5 service and there are NO CAPS.
...
I've uploaded gigs and gigs of HD 1080p footage (I'm a special fx artist) we're talking 30+gigs
Not a word from Verizon.
Verizon does NOT cut the copper to your house. They will do so if you request... because they offer phone service through their fiber (NOT VOIP) And its all on battery backup as well.
BUT... You the installer will ask you if you want to keep the copper or not. They will ask. If they dont, you can mention it and ask them to not remove it.
Its not a big deal at all.
I have FIOS 30/5 service and i love it. I'm lucky enough to be in a Cablevision market and FIOS 30/5 is offered for $50 a month
;)
The install process is a few hours long. I'm proud to be the first person in my area to have it. (I've had a few months now) I cant tell you how happy i am to no longer be a Cablevision Optonline broadband subscriber. I was one of the first Optonline subscribers and saw their service degrade horribly over the years.
FIOS has forced OOL to "BOOST" their speeds but they're still plagued by the same upload usage caps and harrasment.
FIOS is the internet as it should have been 10 years ago. Every house in America should have had Fiber 10 years ago.
If you can at all get Fiber and the service provider is capable of actually delivering on its promises (like Verizon FIOS) then by all means look into it.
I'm hardly a coporate fanboy but Verizon has done right this time. They made a very bold and expensive move by rolling out Fiber services to the house. Other companies should be as bold. Cablevision once was... and they may be again some day.
The great thing about Fios is that it will wake up the broadband world. We demand speed... So the Broadband providers of the world better deliver.
I get solid performance and I really cant be anymore happier with FIOS. Well if they gave me 100/50
Anyways... Bravo to any company willing to advance our civilization by not holding back technology and delivering it to the people.
Miami is shithole of souless morons... That is why sir.
:)
Everyone in Miami is dieing to fuck "up"
My gawd.... look what videogames have done to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so sorry Jack Thompson, and Momma Thompson... please continue assaulting our freedom per your own free will.
Because Jack Thompson fucks his mother, thats why!
Oh I agree. Its yet to be seen if Nintendo's move will be effective, but its clear that they are out numbered, or out "teched" in this case.
Nintendo is certainly going to try to be creative and that is the right move considering nintendo's situation.
I'm not saying nintendo is a bad company. I'm saying they are at a severe disadvantage on the technology front and now they're going to be creative to try to make up for it. I dont know if it will work, it certainly could... But one thing is for sure Nintendo is clearly trying new ideas to survive because its failing badly in image and clearly it cant compete with the hardware.
I'm not saying nintendo made the wrong move. I'm just pointing out the bullshit in their spinning PR.
yes... DS... READ DS...
Now compare the gamecube to PS2 world wide.
The Wii is not a handheld device...
I'm well aware that the PSP is a flop. We're talking consoles.
The fact that nintendo's DS is outselling PSP is just more proof of my point that Nintendo cant compete when it comes to technology, but instead has to compete with inventive design.
PSP is far superior to the DS (hardware wise). Nintendo's DS is a peice of junk in every aspect when you look at its hardware. HOWEVER It has a touch screen, and of course it has great games like Advance Wars.
Nintendo's only hope is to compete with their radical ideas, rather than their inferior technology. Thank you for prooving my point.
My point is Nintendo is spinning the bullshit yarn on this Wii issue. Nintendo cant deliver the same quality hardware, so instead its going to try to do something new with interactive design.
Will it work?
We'll find out, but it certainly is a sign of death for nintendo when they cant keep up with todays technology.
Nintendo is dead. They're spinning this because they are out of the technology loop. Sony is spending far more money than Nintendo on new technology because they can afford to. Nintendo can not compete and they are now trying to spin it.
They may come out with an innovative controller (or not) but they simply cant compete with Microsoft and Sony. Nintendo hasnt had enough success to compete on the buisness end of things and their brand name is associated with a "toyish" second class videogame company where as Sony is considered a major entertainment company with a high end video game console.
Nintendo is in trouble....
Thats not to say the Wii wont or can not succeed. It could infact make Nintendo great once again. I doubt it but it could happen.
Its just clear that they have to take a hit this generation and shift their strategy towards new ideas, rather than best technology. Its the classic "outsmart your enemy with the bigger and better army, by using creative thinking"
Nintendo has a hell of a hill to climb.
Not sure which of those he is, but hes the one from Garden City Long Island. A very rich neighborhood btw.
And i certainly am not assuming that he is guilty.
well considering that in my area, you may remember this in the national news, but a group of highschool football players shoved a pinecone up another teammates ass causing serious damage.
Also a kid from my area, is a suspect in that lacrosse team rape story you heard about on national news...
I'm in total agreement about sports... and i like sports just the way they are.
Its when we go too far, that things get us in trouble. Thats where parenting comes into play.
Do we laugh at the idea of kicking a baby... I sure do.
BUT do we actually kick a baby?
Most of us would never dare think of doing it in reality, but there are those few.
So what really is the problem here? Videogames? Sports? TV? Movies? Art? Speech? or humanity itself?
We are the one common aspect to all of the things we blaim for the behavior of humans...
It starts with us.... our parents.
These politicians are just out for a photo op. Senators/congressmen dont do anything on TV anyways unless its for PR. Ever watch C-Span? How much debate is actually taking place in the senate or the house? Very little. Most officials dont even show up because they are busy fund raising.
Our bills are written by lobbiests and "sponsered" by officials.
Its either an election year, or its time for the videogame lobby to pay up.
Dont worry, nothing will happen, and it if it does, you really cant do anything about it anyways because the government is out of control and beyond the reach of Americans.
When will YouTube be raided? They have tons of copyrighted movies, often overseas films but they're still copyrighted are they not?
I'm hoping YouTube gets raided soon. Infact how about Google video, Google Search, Myspace and Yahoo. Thats a start.
the American mentality scares me
:)
Scares you?! I'm an American and i'm horrified. You should be way beyond scared if i'm horrified
Very true.
Encryption is a good start.
We also need a good p2p encrypted randomly distributed bandwidth solution to protect our constitutional rights.
Yes.. I hate children. I really do. I hope they all die.
Children ruin everything. They even ruin sex. Not sex with them, but they're the result of sex and of course that ruins a great thing.
They mangle your hot wifes body after they're born...
They are worthless beings that ruin everything
Isnt it possible for AT&T to listen into the information of a competing corporation and simply steal ideas?
Is that we've been picked on in our lives and now we develope these horrible tools to get back at the world just cause we can, and it can be sold for lots of money to power hungry old people with visions of world domination.
See... be nice to the weird kid folks...
seriously, why do people create tools like this? Is there really a market for it? Who is this market? Law enforcement perhaps, but what right do they have to log everyones doing? We're private citizens, so why is company allowed to develope such spying tools? Isnt this the same as spyware and trojans? Whats the difference between this and a root kit? In the big picture, they are still spying on us, and these are citizen companies making tools to do this. Thats no different than some kid making a trojan to steal info from zombie computres. Its illegal in my eyes.
Why is a company allowed to do this and a teenager with his latest worm/keylogger not?
Their entire company is based on breaking the law, isnt it?
What happened to privacy?
Oh its the net, we're not guarranteed privacy cause its public? bah. Dangerouns line to walk... especially when they're hell bend on making encryption illegal. What privacy will we be allowed to have on the net?
Funny how i said "what privacy will we be allowed to have..."
Hmmm. I wonder what the IPOD was in the branch tree? I cant imagine apple letting MS access the ipod.
Meow... I have to say this guy is right... Meow... This is a marketing trick... Meow... Microsoft playing catch up to Itunes... Meow.... Just like Vista playing catch up to OSX... Meow... Dam why cant i stop meowing?
I just noticed the IPOD listed in the branch list... I guess they have made it interface with the Ipod.
I have a huge problem with windows media player. Microsoft does not support a good step through frame commend, reverse playback, or quicktime like encoding features with export/import of frame sequences etc.
I always use Windows Media Player Classic because it does so much more than the media player when it comes to playback control and it works better overall, and has a better interface.
Microsoft is trying to make it into itunes, rather than turning it into a real media player. It is a one big button ui. Any advanced video control functionality is either missing or hidden (i cant find them)
They may have a pretty skin, but the player itself always falls short of being a real video player.
They want to be itunes, and not a real video player for all who need it. Apple does it far better with quicktime on the Mac, and their PC version while not as good as the mac version is still useable for content creators/video editors.
The Microsoft Media Player on the other hand is a toy, thats chasing Itunes.
My music is already in Itunes Microsoft... If the media player 11 interfaces with my Ipod i'll maybe consider it, until then... i dont really care about the itunes like features.
Microsoft has always been late to the party, and they do this weasel like catch up strategy, that never satisfies...
WMP 11 is just another Microsoft mess. Get it right or get rid of it. Its fucking version 11 already.... How many versions do you need before you add real video playback controls?
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Yes you should.