Comments on: Earthstink Highspeed Offline http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:30:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Aaron Bockover Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:00:28 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-317 Eventually I'll move my old content and projects over to my Wiki, but I really don't have the time right now. Apologies for broken links. As for PPPoA, I'd give it a try if I was still with Earthlink/DSL, but I'm on RoadRunner now, and it's working great. MUCH faster, and haven't had a single outage. Thanks for your input! Eventually I’ll move my old content and projects over to my Wiki, but I really don’t have the time right now. Apologies for broken links.

As for PPPoA, I’d give it a try if I was still with Earthlink/DSL, but I’m on RoadRunner now, and it’s working great. MUCH faster, and haven’t had a single outage. Thanks for your input!

]]> By: Adam http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Adam Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:43:19 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-316 I stumbled here from MusicPD.org, the link to the Joystick client on their page 404s but hitting your FCD gives me your blog. Anyway. Have you tried connecting to your ISP with PPPoA? I assume smoothwall supports PPPoA and if you're lucky your ISP does too. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode" rel="nofollow">ATM</a> is a more robust protocol than Ethernet and has managed to keep one of my flaky lines up longer than the running the ppp over Ethernet. It's worth a try anyway. I stumbled here from MusicPD.org, the link to the Joystick client on their page 404s but hitting your FCD gives me your blog.

Anyway. Have you tried connecting to your ISP with PPPoA? I assume smoothwall supports PPPoA and if you’re lucky your ISP does too. ATM is a more robust protocol than Ethernet and has managed to keep one of my flaky lines up longer than the running the ppp over Ethernet.

It’s worth a try anyway.

]]> By: SUB-Z3R0 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-286 SUB-Z3R0 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:37:29 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-286 Here at Québec, Canada, my ISP is Vidéotron, it's a cable provider and my download speed is of about 5.1 mbps, I rarely have outages, but most of the time they are due to ice storms, which are frequent here :P. I pay only 39$ CND per month, which is about 29$ USD. I am really happy, though I have a download limit of 20 gigs per month :( Here at Québec, Canada, my ISP is Vidéotron, it’s a cable provider and my download speed is of about 5.1 mbps, I rarely have outages, but most of the time they are due to ice storms, which are frequent here :P. I pay only 39$ CND per month, which is about 29$ USD. I am really happy, though I have a download limit of 20 gigs per month :(

]]> By: Aaron Bockover » Blog Archive » WordPress 2.0 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Aaron Bockover » Blog Archive » WordPress 2.0 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:12:12 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-225 [...] On Friday the cable dude came to hook me up with a more reliable and faster connection to the outside world. It’s pretty awesome. Again, I’m impressed. [...] [...] On Friday the cable dude came to hook me up with a more reliable and faster connection to the outside world. It’s pretty awesome. Again, I’m impressed. [...]

]]> By: Upgraded Internet Access at the law of averages http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Upgraded Internet Access at the law of averages Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:19:40 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-223 [...] Aaron wrote about dumping Earthlink DSL for Time-Warner cable internet service. I feel his pain, except I just did a different sort of upgrade. I’ve been a Comcast Cable internet service customer for years. And it hasn’t been half bad. I’m not sure it’s been half good either, but that’s a different story. But two days ago I traded one evil incumbent monopoly for another with the installation of Verizon FIOS internet service. This is fiber optic based service—5 Mbps downstream, 2 Mbps upstream, $34 per month. For an extra $10 per month you can get 15 Mbps downstream. The savings per bandwidth aren’t as dramatic as Aaron’s, but hey—it’s freakin fast. Which is interesting if you think about it, since Comcast also claimed a downstream speed of 5 Mbps on my cable service. [...] [...] Aaron wrote about dumping Earthlink DSL for Time-Warner cable internet service. I feel his pain, except I just did a different sort of upgrade. I’ve been a Comcast Cable internet service customer for years. And it hasn’t been half bad. I’m not sure it’s been half good either, but that’s a different story. But two days ago I traded one evil incumbent monopoly for another with the installation of Verizon FIOS internet service. This is fiber optic based service—5 Mbps downstream, 2 Mbps upstream, $34 per month. For an extra $10 per month you can get 15 Mbps downstream. The savings per bandwidth aren’t as dramatic as Aaron’s, but hey—it’s freakin fast. Which is interesting if you think about it, since Comcast also claimed a downstream speed of 5 Mbps on my cable service. [...]

]]> By: Aaron Bockover http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Aaron Bockover Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:25 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-219 Wow. Thanks everyone for all the insight. I have switched both my mother and grandmother from DSL or Dialup to TWC broadband for both Internet and voice, and they are both very happy. The connections are very sturdy and very fast, and the savings and extra features with the digial phone is a wonderful bonus. I do not have any "home phone" service. If I really wanted a "land line", I'd probably go with Vonage, like Tanner has, as it's cheaper than the phone service from TWC and you can actually "do stuff" with it, but I'm mildly happy with my cell phone (though I hate my provider, Cingular, but who doesn't) and SkypeOut (but as of today, <a href="http://abock.org/2006/01/19/ekiga-and-diamond/" rel="nofollow">Ekiga+Diamond</a>) for International calls. Wow. Thanks everyone for all the insight. I have switched both my mother and grandmother from DSL or Dialup to TWC broadband for both Internet and voice, and they are both very happy. The connections are very sturdy and very fast, and the savings and extra features with the digial phone is a wonderful bonus.

I do not have any “home phone” service. If I really wanted a “land line”, I’d probably go with Vonage, like Tanner has, as it’s cheaper than the phone service from TWC and you can actually “do stuff” with it, but I’m mildly happy with my cell phone (though I hate my provider, Cingular, but who doesn’t) and SkypeOut (but as of today, Ekiga+Diamond) for International calls.

]]> By: Jae Stutzman http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Jae Stutzman Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:45:16 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-218 Well...I should read the comments before I post.... Well…I should read the comments before I post….

]]> By: Jae Stutzman http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Jae Stutzman Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:43:41 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-217 Don't forget to cancel you landline phone as well. You can do Vonage or something else now that you don't need to have a phone line for DSL. Don’t forget to cancel you landline phone as well. You can do Vonage or something else now that you don’t need to have a phone line for DSL.

]]> By: Phillip Rhodes http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Phillip Rhodes Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:58:28 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-214 My old room-mate and I switched back and forth between DSL and Roadrunner a couple of times a few years ago... before finally settling on Cable for about the last 4 years. There was a time when TWC cable had a few issues (there DNS servers in particular haven't always been really reliable), but it's been rock-solid for almost as long as I can remember now. I moved into a new place back last May, and immediately signed up for Roadrunner, and I can't recall a single outage since I've been there. Right now, for my money, cable is definitely the way to go. sb does make a good point though, about the packet sniffing. Do anything that's really important over an encypted protocol. Your neighbor may sniff your IRC nick password or your AOL IM login, but for me, that's not something I'm really worried about. My old room-mate and I switched back and forth between DSL and Roadrunner a couple of times a few years ago… before finally settling on Cable for about the last 4 years. There was a time when TWC cable had a few issues (there DNS servers in particular haven’t always been really reliable), but it’s been rock-solid for almost as long as I can remember now.

I moved into a new place back last May, and immediately signed up for Roadrunner, and I can’t recall a single outage since I’ve been there. Right now, for my money, cable is definitely the way to go.

sb does make a good point though, about the packet sniffing. Do anything that’s really important over an encypted protocol. Your neighbor may sniff your IRC nick password or your AOL IM login, but for me, that’s not something I’m really worried about.

]]> By: sb http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/comment-page-1/#comment-213 sb Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:10:14 +0000 http://abock.org/2006/01/18/eartsink-highspeed-offline/#comment-213 My DSL sucks too... http://bronson.rinspin.com/articles/2005/10/21/adsl Beware cable though. It makes you real intimate with your neighbors. Running a packet sniffer is real, um, educational. I had cable when I was living in Santa Barbara. Some dumbass on my block managed to set up a DHCP server that handed out bogus IP addresses. Knocked everybody on my block off the internet for a week. Cox kept saying that there was nothing they could do... An entire week. It still gives me the heebie jeebies. My DSL sucks too… http://bronson.rinspin.com/articles/2005/10/21/adsl

Beware cable though. It makes you real intimate with your neighbors. Running a packet sniffer is real, um, educational.

I had cable when I was living in Santa Barbara. Some dumbass on my block managed to set up a DHCP server that handed out bogus IP addresses. Knocked everybody on my block off the internet for a week. Cox kept saying that there was nothing they could do… An entire week. It still gives me the heebie jeebies.

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