[ale] Better ISP?

[Cornelis van Dijk]

Wew, thanks guys, this post is going to keep me busy for weeks.
I knew ale was a treasure trove.
As I said in the initial post. the AT&T guys give me this look when I
ask for Linux. On one occasion they glibly said yes, but I he still
looked flabbergasted, possibly figured that we cross that bridge when
we come to it.
I am a miserable customer anyway, we still use rabbit ears, rather the
fractal square (which works quite good) for our TV. My wife only
watches GPB; we can almost see the broadcaster on top of Stone
Mountain. I  don't watch TV much. We still get a bunch of channels,
but most of it is garbage.
About the DSL or cable "modem" can I get one at, for example, Fry's,
and configure it myself? Or is it part of the installation? One of my
older machines has still Windows XP, so I could possibly do the
initial setup and then switch to Linux?

By the way, is there an DDOS going on somewhere? I had a hard time
connecting around 21.30, took me ten minutes. Even a dialup is not
THAT slow.

To answer one of questions above. Yes, the $22.- is per month.

Thanks a lot to all of you. Glad I rejoined ale. Cor




On 1/5/11, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> Wireless Wii == no HD quality.  I'm running wired Cat5 in the house to a
> Samsung BD w/onboard NIC on AT&T 6MB DSL and get HD as well as 802.11(G)
> and the studio Internet connected machines.  Still...looking forward to
> when FTTH comes to our neighborhood (or a functional "equivalent") as
> we're looking to add a couple more BDs to the mix.
>
> RinL
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:50 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>         Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>         >     Do they run new wires outside or inside or both?  I
>>         suspect that where
>>         >     I'll want the device inside the house is on the complete
>>         opposite side
>>         >     from where the wires enter the house.  Luckily it's an
>>         unfinished
>>         >     basement, so shouldn't be too hard to run the wire
>>         across it.  :)
>>         >
>>         > The new line was from pole to "modem". After the modem you
>>         run cat5e on your
>>         > own. Pick a central location with a power socket nearby and
>>         pull wires around
>>         > the house - OR - plug in a wireless router running ddwrt and
>>         crank up the
>>         > output signal :-)
>>
>>
>>         Yeah, well, the modem can't live where the wire comes through
>>         the wall;
>>         that definitely wont pass the WAF.  But I'm happy to have a
>>         dedicated
>>         coax that runs to where I can house the modem, and then of
>>         course I'll
>>         run Cat5e or Cat6 through the house.
>>
>>         Wifi wont work; it's not good enough yet (and definitely not
>>         good enough
>>         for HDTV).
>>
>> he, he. all of the bad hdtv we see comes from comcast cable line (not
>> the same wire as my data) . We stream netflix over wireless to the wii
>> with no problems even with 2 other laptops in use on the same wifi AP.
>>
>> of course the wii doesn't _do_ netflix in HD (no hdmi port).
>>
>>
>>         Thanks.
>>
>>
>>         -derek
>>         --
>>               Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>               Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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