How? Out here in oklahoma at home I have one choice for electric and water. In town you have one choice for electric, water and gas. That is if you live in an area of the city that the city allowed to have natural gas lines run.
I've heard the city is pretty picky about the permitting anymore something about the natural gas competing with their electric for heating in the winter.
But how would that work I don't really have anything here I could compare it to?
Now your making me feel bad for not having time to read books something more important always seems to turn up. Darn you real life, youtube and netflix!
I hate dialup so much but I often think I'd get more done of that was still my only option.
I assume you have broadband? Yes the backhaul seems to be pretty high cost here the city only has 3Gbps backhaul for the whole town but they only offer up to 40Mbps for residents. The equipment they were installing back in 2004 could do 600Mbps but they have never been able to afford enough backhaul to get near that. It's kind of like owning a jet but only being able to afford enough fuel to taxi around the runway.
Well yeah most people are fine with a 50Mbps connection for one person you can do pretty much anything you want with that speed. Out where I live the local WISPs have been very sucessful the first one stopped expanding a few years ago as they got as big as the owners could handle a few months ago it merged with a regional chain ISP to compete with the city owned WISP that went into competition with them. Now the chain offers 50Mbps service and the city only offers 10Mbps. But the city is expanding into another three neighboring towns that currently have no ISP or WISP.
You can't get everyone but at least 3/4 of the houses near one have a little antenna from one of the two WISPs I mentioned. There are no wired options out where I live.
Standard microwave ovens operate in the 2.4GHz frequency tho (roughly about wifi channel 9) 5GHz is far enough away that it shouldn't receive any significant interference. Of course if the microwave has decent shielding it won't bother a 2.4GHz network either.
Super wifi doesn't sound like a very technical term. TFA doesn't mention any speeds. The two companies listed don't seem to be very well priced for what you get. I mean I could get 50/5Mbps unlimited wireless here for $100/mo if I didn't live next to a hill and that's just with the current gen ubnt wireless equipment.
I think LTE will outrun this tech at it's current pace.
Darn too bad they never thought of anything that worked on a different frequency than microwaves...Oh wait they did it was called 802.11a and no one used it.
Sprint bought it and shut it down. When you hear people talking about clearwire that's what they are talking about.
The laptop i'm typing this on actually has a wimax card built in but there has never been a wimax AP anywhere near here so I doubt i'll ever be able to try it.
IKR the 12/1Mbps att ADSL2+ at work is only $45/mo.
Well ok that's a promo deal but it's also business class $35/mo would get you 10/?Mbps via the city muni fiber here. Standard price for residential service.
I would like to have scroll bars that are consistent some websites hide the scroll bar or make it so small it's hard to hit reliably with a mouse.
Sure it might make the site look a bit better but everyone doesn't have a touchscreen and it sure makes the site a pita to use without working scrollbars.
I'm rather annoyed at being treated like a criminal for paying for things. If you need me i'm going to be watching "pirated" movies on this highly illegal service i've been paying for for the last few years called netflix.
Netflix is going to have to start their own VPN service in a few years if current trends continue.
There is also a lot of legacy stuff that will never be converted that still needs flash. The lack of flash support has probably been the biggest pita of using an ipad. IIRC android supported it for a time but later dropped support so if I want flash on the go I have to go with a windows tablet.
IMHO windows tablets wouldn't be that bad but their on screen keyboard support is terrible.
With ios and android the osk is fully automatic whenever you need it it just pops up but windows you have to bring it up manually a lot of the time.
Though I suppose I could get an actual keyboard with a windows tablet since they have wired ones they ought to work pretty decent.
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Then with all the extra profit they will actually run fiber,dsl,cable or something else fast to my house? Yay! /s
Oh that's not the way it works either is it?
So If I agree to slow lanes they will build a lane to my house?
I can't pay extra for priority if I can't get a lane.
How? Out here in oklahoma at home I have one choice for electric and water. In town you have one choice for electric, water and gas. That is if you live in an area of the city that the city allowed to have natural gas lines run.
I've heard the city is pretty picky about the permitting anymore something about the natural gas competing with their electric for heating in the winter.
But how would that work I don't really have anything here I could compare it to?
I don't remember that guy being on the ballot.
I greatly prefer the mechanical disc eject mechanisms
The os has no need to decide for me when it's safe to remove the disc.
I don't care if it is burning a disc it's been stuck at 100% for the last half hour.
Amirite?
Seriously this is going after "pirates" as in anyone who would dare play a game that's not for one of their current systems.
Now your making me feel bad for not having time to read books something more important always seems to turn up. Darn you real life, youtube and netflix!
I hate dialup so much but I often think I'd get more done of that was still my only option.
I assume you have broadband?
Yes the backhaul seems to be pretty high cost here the city only has 3Gbps backhaul for the whole town but they only offer up to 40Mbps for residents.
The equipment they were installing back in 2004 could do 600Mbps but they have never been able to afford enough backhaul to get near that.
It's kind of like owning a jet but only being able to afford enough fuel to taxi around the runway.
Well yeah most people are fine with a 50Mbps connection for one person you can do pretty much anything you want with that speed.
Out where I live the local WISPs have been very sucessful the first one stopped expanding a few years ago as they got as big as the owners could handle a few months ago it merged with a regional chain ISP to compete with the city owned WISP that went into competition with them.
Now the chain offers 50Mbps service and the city only offers 10Mbps. But the city is expanding into another three neighboring towns that currently have no ISP or WISP.
You can't get everyone but at least 3/4 of the houses near one have a little antenna from one of the two WISPs I mentioned. There are no wired options out where I live.
Are they still counting the old 768Kbps dsl connections as service like they did before?
Through who? iirc all the other WiMAX carriers were smaller clearwire was the big one and afaik there aren't any others still operating.
Standard microwave ovens operate in the 2.4GHz frequency tho (roughly about wifi channel 9) 5GHz is far enough away that it shouldn't receive any significant interference.
Of course if the microwave has decent shielding it won't bother a 2.4GHz network either.
Super wifi doesn't sound like a very technical term.
TFA doesn't mention any speeds.
The two companies listed don't seem to be very well priced for what you get.
I mean I could get 50/5Mbps unlimited wireless here for $100/mo if I didn't live next to a hill and that's just with the current gen ubnt wireless equipment.
I think LTE will outrun this tech at it's current pace.
Darn too bad they never thought of anything that worked on a different frequency than microwaves...Oh wait they did it was called 802.11a and no one used it.
Sprint bought it and shut it down.
When you hear people talking about clearwire that's what they are talking about.
The laptop i'm typing this on actually has a wimax card built in but there has never been a wimax AP anywhere near here so I doubt i'll ever be able to try it.
I had wifi when I was on dialup you insensitive clod!
Most cell companies are nearing the end of their LTE roll outs so if you can get a cell signal out in the sticks it's normally pretty quick anymore.
IDK I think twitch just does it for looks with no option to override.
IKR the 12/1Mbps att ADSL2+ at work is only $45/mo.
Well ok that's a promo deal but it's also business class
$35/mo would get you 10/?Mbps via the city muni fiber here. Standard price for residential service.
I would like to have scroll bars that are consistent some websites hide the scroll bar or make it so small it's hard to hit reliably with a mouse.
Sure it might make the site look a bit better but everyone doesn't have a touchscreen and it sure makes the site a pita to use without working scrollbars.
They did that already it's just not a very popular option
chrome://settings/content tick "Do not allow any site to run JavaScript" click done.
I'm rather annoyed at being treated like a criminal for paying for things. If you need me i'm going to be watching "pirated" movies on this highly illegal service i've been paying for for the last few years called netflix.
Netflix is going to have to start their own VPN service in a few years if current trends continue.
I always take some light earplugs with me when I go the malco they seem to tune the movies a bit to the crowd they think will want to watch it.
Though I do watch everything with subtitles/captions turned on at home.
Or your in the theater next to the one playing SUPER MONSTER VS ULTRA MONSTER 17! and the base from their movie is shaking the projector in yours...
Still protects the content. So even if they are able to discern who you were talking to they won't be able to discern what was said.
There is also a lot of legacy stuff that will never be converted that still needs flash.
The lack of flash support has probably been the biggest pita of using an ipad. IIRC android supported it for a time but later dropped support so if I want flash on the go I have to go with a windows tablet.
IMHO windows tablets wouldn't be that bad but their on screen keyboard support is terrible.
With ios and android the osk is fully automatic whenever you need it it just pops up but windows you have to bring it up manually a lot of the time.
Though I suppose I could get an actual keyboard with a windows tablet since they have wired ones they ought to work pretty decent.