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Author Topic: What do you use for internet access? Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-30-2005 01:28 PM                     I have a new laptop with a wireless g thingy in it. I don't want a long term contract for service at my home so I will be using it at the Library and Starbucks, Borders and the like in my area. It's teeny tiny.  |  IP: Logged Don Cross Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Charleston, WV, USA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 01-30-2005 02:22 PM                     A note to people who may be a few miles out of range of higher speed internet... I'll have to do some more research and find a link of a person who did some contracting work for Apple. He was able to "connect" using various types of wireless internet; then placing an external (very tight focused) directional antanae which was aimed at a different building a few miles away. One of the examples he used in his site was that he would use places such as churches which had (bell) towers. He would simply offer the church to split the cost of using the internet connection. The one single downside was the cost of set-up; which was typically a minimum of $400-500 for the transmission equipment alone. Another reminder to people who use either always on connections or wireless connections; is to invest as much as ones budget will allow in all types of internet security. Its interesting that even computer experts will attempt to get away with cutting corners on internet security.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-30-2005 02:38 PM                        My Qwest DSL has been sucking major ass lately, I was very tempted to change services because they were offering me to have someone to come and figure out the problem for a fee of $100. Then for some reason when I did some adjusting from different phone/power jacks my DSL came back up. Hopefully this will be the last of my internet troubles.  |  IP: Logged Don Cross Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Charleston, WV, USA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 01-30-2005 02:46 PM                     Jennifer, hopefully internet will stay at a good rate. If it gives any problems in the future I could offer to talk you through fixing the problem.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 02-01-2005 01:10 AM                        Well, I was wrong that my DSL wouldn't have any more problems. It's still acting up every now and then. Don, thanks for the heads up but I'm changing my ISP anyway... TO CABLE BABY! The good stuff. I hate how my IP address keeps changing and yes I've tried every possible way to forward the IPs but I'm not going to spend $30 for tech support to let them tell me something I already know how to do. They probably have some stupid system detector to keep me from doing it myself.  |  IP: Logged Chris Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 105 From: Fairport, NY, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-01-2005 02:21 AM                        I have cable at home; you're right Jen, cable is definitely the way to go! Unfortuantely down here at school, I have to deal with a very annoying Broadband connection. Its always been painfully slow, and not always reliable. My best friend used to go to a tech school and he had a ridiculously fast T1 connection that I was always very jealous of!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-01-2005 02:51 AM                        T1 connections are anything but "ridiculously fast". In fact, they are pretty slow.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-01-2005 02:52 AM                        I have cable at home now, DSL at my day job -- slower than the cable, even though they're supposed to both be the same speed -- and still clunking along with dialup at the theatre. I have that "propel accellerator" installed on the dialup account and it makes film-tech load just about as fast as the damn DSL does.  |  IP: Logged Chris Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 105 From: Fairport, NY, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-01-2005 12:26 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer T1 connections are anything but "ridiculously fast". In fact, they are pretty slow. I could have been wrong in the termonology...though I do remember him saying that's what it was. I'll have to ask. All I remember is that he was able to download at amazing speeds, and I was jealous!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-01-2005 12:41 PM                     For my home setup, I've had a DSL connection through SBC for about five years. It seems to work fine for the most part. SBC has recently been upping the download and upload bitrates for customers to get more competitive since a number of cable carriers in places like Oklahoma City have been offering really huge download rates (some connections up to 4Mbit/sec). Our office connection is a wireless broadband setup. Bandwidth is pretty decent (around 700k to 1Mb per second upstream and downstream), but there is a latency lag of around 150 to 200ms. That makes it pretty useless if you want to do things like Internet gaming. We have this kind of setup since we're just outside the service range for DSL. These kind of setups can be problematic. The connection is dependent on line of sight with the ISP tower or a relay anntenae. And the connection can be stomped with interference. We had no connection for a couple days last week because of some kind of interference problem back at the ISP. No telling what caused it (they think folks at Fort Sill were running something that jammed them). An aside, maybe this might just be my perception, but overall I think Internet speed nationwide is slower. It seems like everyone has some kind of gripe about lag time. I would not be surprised if that is the case. The internet is completely infected with denial of service attacks and trillions of pieces of spam filling mailboxes every freaking day. The ISPs themselves share some blame in this for their lassie-faire attitude toward malware-infected e-mail and spam. The ISPs are losing lots of bandwidth and money for a problem they could largely solve themselves. If they run active anti-virus filtering that automatically deletes any malware infected e-mail coming through their servers that would free up a lot of wasted bandwidth. You wouldn't have so many PCs being infected with worms and being turned into bots that vomit out spam or run DOS attacks.  |  IP: Logged Don Cross Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Charleston, WV, USA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 02-02-2005 01:05 AM                     The next generation internet is in the works; and will work with all connections and speeds- from dial-up all the way to frame relay. Think of it as being a type of caller identification for the internet. This way there would be no practical way of forging an IP address. Think of the many other advantages this will have. Theres a probability that this will be available sometime in late 2006. Other goodies to look for in the near future: Pentium Five; otherwise known as five squared. Never guess what the entry level clock speed is? Can you say 5ghz? The range of spped should top out around 8ghz. Entry level systems should start out at about 2k. Most systems will come standard with a variation of RAID either mirrored or non mirrored versions available. In the box also look for options of: between 4-8 in chips, liquid cooling, 512 graphics card w/ twin fans. In other computer news: Longhorn OS soon to be renamed. Present program takes up almost 5gig of space. Can't wait to see how big the SP1 will be.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-02-2005 03:25 PM                        Still on Road Runner cable at home, and even though they've supposedly increased the bandwidth, some times of day it is quite slow. I suspect a few "power users" in the neighborhood.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-02-2005 06:19 PM                     quote: The next generation internet is in the works...(snip)... Think of it as being a type of caller identification for the internet. This way there would be no practical way of forging an IP address. As much as I would like to see this happen, I have strong doubts it will. Why? The amoral dirtbags in the direct marketing industry already polluted the "Can Spam" act and made it into the "You Can Spam" act. Through the same act, they made emerging IP caller ID technologies being developed by Yahoo, Microsoft and a number of others basically illegal. These fuckers out there think your computer and your e-mail box belongs to them. In the end, the spam assholes will make e-mail completely useless. You'll have to go back to snail mail on paper to get a note sent to anyone reliably. I swear, I think the amount of spam has more than doubled since that fake spam law went into effect. quote: Don Cross Pentium Five; otherwise known as five squared. Never guess what the entry level clock speed is? Can you say 5ghz? Considering Intel cancelled the 4GHz Pentium IV because of heat problems (the 3.8GHz unit already gets as hot as an electric iron) it is extremely doubtful the "Pentium V" chip will debut at any speed near 5GHz. Near term, Intel will roll out their 600-class numbered Pentium IV chips with 2MB of L2 cache late winter/early spring 2005. Around summertime, those "P5" named chips will appear. The design will be a "dual core" processor with the CPU effectively containing two symmetric CPUs. Each CPU core will have 1MB of L2 cache and probably will debut at a clock speed around 2.4 to 2.8 GHz. AMD, IBM, Motorola and other CPU makers are also fast at work on their dual-core and multi-core CPU designs. It's a pretty solid bet the next Apple CPU (likely the "G6") will be a dual core design. The 3GHz G5 chip was also quietly dropped because of heat concerns. Overall, I look at the heat problems in CPU design as a good thing. It means the software developers and other players in the computing industry will finally have to get off their dead asses and code multi-threaded applications. They're about 10 years overdue on this, IMHO. For the longest time the only reason for any user to have a dual processor box was to run Adobe Photoshop or some 3D rendering application faster. Now that the speed curve for CPUs is pointing now toward parallel processors (instead of making one CPU faster and hotter) it might create some new directions in computer design.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-03-2005 03:10 AM                        quote: Bobby Henderson I swear, I think the amount of spam has more than doubled since that fake spam law went into effect. i don't know why, but a couple months ago i just stopped getting spam. i used to get maybe 10-25 a day in both my accounts (yahoo and ythis), then it stopped with no action on my part. now i get maybe one every couple days. couldn't be happier. carl  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-03-2005 03:39 AM                     1.2Mb Qwest DSL connection for me. - Monte  |  IP: Logged

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