I havbe found teh Intarnets
They were right where I left them.
So, after two weeks of my internet being down for arcane technical reasons (*cough*), I got a new ISP, and I once again have network in the apartment.
Given the choice in ISP's between DSL courtesy of SBC/Ameritech/AT&T/whatever else they're calling themselves these days, and cable courtesy of Time Warner, I went with the DSL. Time Warner wanted to bundle network with digital cable, which I did not much like, and while they had a decent introductory rate, the base rate sucked. SBC gave me decent bandwidth at a decent price, and I figured if the quality was bad I'd dump them.
Portability was also an issue; the DSL lets me plug the splitter into any phone jack in my apartment, so I didn't have to string hundreds of feet of CAT-5 cable around the place. (No, I don't agree that stringing CAT-5 cable "builds character.")
On the bad side, SBC made me buy their hardware, which is a DSL modem/router made by 2Wire. That wouldn't have been my first choice. However, the setup wasn't bad. Aside from having to figure out the port-forwarding issue, everything was relatively straightforward.
Anyway, the thing conected with few hassles, transfer speed is respectable (if somewhat less than the gigabit to which I became accustomed while at CWRU), latency is low, and all seems cool.
And I will say this: after two weeks of no network, when I started up my game and it connected, all was suddenly made right in the world. I have a monkey on my back that is internet addiction, and he is a vicious bastard.
So, after two weeks of my internet being down for arcane technical reasons (*cough*), I got a new ISP, and I once again have network in the apartment.
Given the choice in ISP's between DSL courtesy of SBC/Ameritech/AT&T/whatever else they're calling themselves these days, and cable courtesy of Time Warner, I went with the DSL. Time Warner wanted to bundle network with digital cable, which I did not much like, and while they had a decent introductory rate, the base rate sucked. SBC gave me decent bandwidth at a decent price, and I figured if the quality was bad I'd dump them.
Portability was also an issue; the DSL lets me plug the splitter into any phone jack in my apartment, so I didn't have to string hundreds of feet of CAT-5 cable around the place. (No, I don't agree that stringing CAT-5 cable "builds character.")
On the bad side, SBC made me buy their hardware, which is a DSL modem/router made by 2Wire. That wouldn't have been my first choice. However, the setup wasn't bad. Aside from having to figure out the port-forwarding issue, everything was relatively straightforward.
Anyway, the thing conected with few hassles, transfer speed is respectable (if somewhat less than the gigabit to which I became accustomed while at CWRU), latency is low, and all seems cool.
And I will say this: after two weeks of no network, when I started up my game and it connected, all was suddenly made right in the world. I have a monkey on my back that is internet addiction, and he is a vicious bastard.
posted by Craig at 6:53 AM
1 Comments:
Everyone knows that it's not the stringing of the cable that builds character, but rather getting all the little wires into the connectors in the right order and crimping it by hand.
Geez.
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