[TriLUG] cause for alarm?

[Nick Goldwater]

Perhaps Verizon will have a viable FIOS offering by then and perhaps there will even be a competitive wireless option too! (It's nice to daydream) If we had some real competition perhaps it would be reflected in lower consumer costs.

Nick


----- "Roberto J. Dohnert" <robertdohnert at mailshack.com> wrote:

| Ye should wait until the fires die down.  I was talking with a buddy
| of 
| mine whom works for TWC.  He couldnt give me many details except to
| tell 
| me he couldnt give me many details but the detail he did give me was 
| that this is a test and its going to hit the major metropolitan areas,
| 
| Texas, Florida, New York, CA etc before it hots NC, but he couldnt
| tell 
| me when/if this will affect NC anytime soon.
| 
| Jim Ray wrote:
| > Well, I think we should do some on site diagnosis at the earliest
| > possible convenience. Do not forget to bring technical tools like
| > surfboard (and I don't mean some motorola modem).
| >  
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]
| On
| > Behalf Of Greg Brown
| > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:43 PM
| > To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
| > Subject: [TriLUG] cause for alarm?
| >
| > After all this discussion of possible metering on TWC I decided to
| check
| > the stats on my public router on at the outer banks (the public
| wi-fi
| > network - I figured, if any network, a public one would have a lot
| of
| > bandwidth eaten up).  What I found was interesting:
| >
| > In/out packets 44281817/56033743 (1.86 GB/3.83 GB)
| >
| > 'cuse me?  More outbound than inbound?  This particular modem has a
| 3/1
| > connection so the outbound is faster than most however I still
| would
| > have thought, over 60 days, the download would have been much
| higher
| > than the upload.  I wonder if the counters wrapped.
| >
| > What think yee?
| >
| > greg
| >   
| 
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