haha, I have evdo on my phone. But without a reliable internet connection, my home phone reroutes to my cell, so I wouldn't be able to get any phonecalls at all if I used it as my primary connection.
What, pray tell, drove you to such a desperate high tech act?
DSL modem failure prior to recieving the replacement.
Wait…you're saying that you don't have a hot spare sitting around someplace? Dude, you loaned me a DSL modem while I was waiting for mine to arrive in the mail. What happened to that old tank of a Westell?
All I'm sayin is I had dialup backup ready to rock, and reconfiguring my network to do pppoe was extra effort.
egads!! that takes a real trooper to endure that harshness.
on the other side of that coin, I had half expected you to have an elaborate antenna rigged on your roof to pick up stray wifi signals from the neighborhood as a backup.
i am sure you could get one of the neighbors to agree that "in the unlikely event of a network outage, it is groovy for paul to piggy back", or whatever tickles their fancy.
aye, but is free Merit really worth the hassle? *hairball*
i figured as much. i just had to take a stab at Merit. (I found some documentation with their name on it in my filing cabinet the other day which was from a 1997 NANOG meeting). sorry.
must have been a bitch just to upload the picture!
haha, I have evdo on my phone. But without a reliable internet connection, my home phone reroutes to my cell, so I wouldn't be able to get any phonecalls at all if I used it as my primary connection.
Uh, when you're done with that, the Smithsonian would like it back…
it's v.90 baby. none of that silly ancient v.32 stuff
What was I thinking? You're not old school at all!
totally not, this is high tech stuff.
What, pray tell, drove you to such a
desperatehigh tech act?DSL modem failure prior to recieving the replacement.
Wait…you're saying that you don't have a hot spare sitting around someplace? Dude, you loaned me a DSL modem while I was waiting for mine to arrive in the mail. What happened to that old tank of a Westell?
All I'm sayin is I had dialup backup ready to rock, and reconfiguring my network to do pppoe was extra effort.
egads!! that takes a real trooper to endure that harshness.
on the other side of that coin, I had half expected you to have an elaborate antenna rigged on your roof to pick up stray wifi signals from the neighborhood as a backup.
This is much more legal, and just as free.
i am sure you could get one of the neighbors to agree that "in the unlikely event of a network outage, it is groovy for paul to piggy back", or whatever tickles their fancy.
aye, but is free Merit really worth the hassle? *hairball*
Who said anything about Merit? I'm dialing into my own RAS.
I have a portmaster 3 on an ISDN circuit all to myself.
i figured as much. i just had to take a stab at Merit. (I found some documentation with their name on it in my filing cabinet the other day which was from a 1997 NANOG meeting). sorry.
oh, and it's on a static IP, on dialup.
sweet.
Yikes. And I thought that a 56k upstream was bad.
You brave, brave man.
haha, and I'm sharing it with my servers and as well.
It's brought us closer together too, as there are plenty of ways to kill time while pages download.
Re: Is it?
I love USR modems. They're rock solid.
broadband is pretty cheap these days. Who is your local phone provider?