RoadRunner in San Antonio, Texas just bumped their premium "RoadRunner Turbo" customers to 22Mbps down while remaining at 1Mbps up. $69/monthly.
Not a bad deal to me, especially with their very high reliability and uptime.
DSL and other providers are still lagging at 2-5Mbps locally.
I'll agree with the above. Although I am really worried about who they plan to use in Ledger's place in the next film. Nobody will be able to match his excellent ability.
My company would almost cease to exist if the Internet went down locally. I mean, it would be the end of life as we know it. That's why we are going to invest (in the new office building) in two seperate connections to the World Wide Web, with two completely independant companies.
Using two ISP's is a relatively untapped resource today, much like mirroring hard disk drives in a RAID array was a few years ago. Today, nobody will build a server without at least one redundant drive. I believe Internet connections should be the same way. How often do businesses complain of "sorry, our network/Internet is down" and lose customers? Do a Google search on a "Dual-WAN" router and see there are a few products around. I love my HotBrick LB-2 router that I use at home. There are about half a dozen people that can easily stress a standard RoadRunner connection. Using my friend's DSL connection going to the same house, it both load-balances and has failover capability. I don't even think twice before unplugging my cable modem. Without any downtime, the router will use the DSL line to pick up the slack.
Is it affordable? Well, that's the same question people were asking about mirrored hard disk drives years ago. The question becomes, is it nessesary? I'm not willing to move into a house that doesn't have the availablility of having two ISP's.
I just made a funny remark to the article. Apparently, the person who replied before you thought it wasn't funny but actually exactly on-point. Also, most UPS's have more than just a few minutes runtime. I work at a computer retail/service store and we don't sell a UPS under 1100VA. That'll give a standard computer/monitor about an hour at best, in case you didn't know.
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RoadRunner in San Antonio, Texas just bumped their premium "RoadRunner Turbo" customers to 22Mbps down while remaining at 1Mbps up. $69/monthly. Not a bad deal to me, especially with their very high reliability and uptime. DSL and other providers are still lagging at 2-5Mbps locally.
I'll agree with the above. Although I am really worried about who they plan to use in Ledger's place in the next film. Nobody will be able to match his excellent ability.
It this becomes big, I bet everyone at Craigslist will be cracking a smile to themselves.
My company would almost cease to exist if the Internet went down locally. I mean, it would be the end of life as we know it. That's why we are going to invest (in the new office building) in two seperate connections to the World Wide Web, with two completely independant companies.
Using two ISP's is a relatively untapped resource today, much like mirroring hard disk drives in a RAID array was a few years ago. Today, nobody will build a server without at least one redundant drive. I believe Internet connections should be the same way. How often do businesses complain of "sorry, our network/Internet is down" and lose customers? Do a Google search on a "Dual-WAN" router and see there are a few products around. I love my HotBrick LB-2 router that I use at home. There are about half a dozen people that can easily stress a standard RoadRunner connection. Using my friend's DSL connection going to the same house, it both load-balances and has failover capability. I don't even think twice before unplugging my cable modem. Without any downtime, the router will use the DSL line to pick up the slack.
Is it affordable? Well, that's the same question people were asking about mirrored hard disk drives years ago. The question becomes, is it nessesary? I'm not willing to move into a house that doesn't have the availablility of having two ISP's.
Aj
I think the site has been Slashdotted...
I just made a funny remark to the article. Apparently, the person who replied before you thought it wasn't funny but actually exactly on-point. Also, most UPS's have more than just a few minutes runtime. I work at a computer retail/service store and we don't sell a UPS under 1100VA. That'll give a standard computer/monitor about an hour at best, in case you didn't know.
Why not just unplug your UPS on your PC during the peak hours?