Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.2 Beta 1 DVD torrent
- From: jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:08:23 -0500
into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Tuesday 31 October 2006
4:13 pm, Chuck Davis wrote:
I reformatted to put the question in front of the answer, as he top posted
his reply.
Just curious.. there seems to be a major problem w/ BS dsl in the
whole state of Florida, which they once blamed on ( take your choice
) fiberglass wires , and distance from a tree that was designated the
limit of the service ( I kid you not at all ) And currently they
blame on weather, corruption of the modem ( they supply ) or maybe
the wires or da dadah DAH! Linux ... somehow linux or the power of
the wires is "frying the modem". Call me crazy, I don't buy it.. and
in this case copper wired to the house is supposed to ensure that we
are getting their fastest thru put ; we are in the center of the area
they serve w/ this DSL system on our street. and as my results above
show, w/ only my email account picking up the mail every 2 hrs during
daytimes and 6 hrs at night, I I find it silly for them to blame the
OS.. I don't see how anything is frying the modem, their favorite
"fixit" idea is to unplug the modem for a few secconds and replug
everything back in.. or get rid of our router and plug the computers
directly into the modem, rather than into the router.. DuH! Don't see
how that is going to speed things up any.. didn't help before when we
just had the router and no modem needed..
The following was just under the bit that says " On Tuesday 31 October
2006 4:13 pm, Chuck Davis wrote:"
Well, of course I can't tell you what is wrong but I met an<snip>
interesting event a few weeks back. My DSL connection was really
slow. Finally my daughter called Verizon and, since she didn't have a
clue what they were talking about, put me on the line. They had me
hook my machine direcly to the cable modem and sign on to their speed
test site. The speed went to full speed immediately. I could not
believe it but there was no doubt it was my router. I got a new
router and my daughter then asked me, "Could it be because Conner (my
grandson) pulled it onto the floor a couple of times?" So, don't rule
out that it could be your router. Hook your computer directly to the
modem and test the speed. You, too, might be surprised!
Yes, but we replaced the router on several occasions even going to the
trouble of actually buying a couple of new ones! It doesn't change ... It
looks faster on their page ? So did going to Shields Up in the old days.
Make one think because he was mainly testing to see if you had the
Windows netbios port open , maybe still is. So you might , w/ a linux
system and a default Suse install , come out w/ a really glowing report.
Suse didn't open that port (213?) something like that .. you might tho,
actually still have vulnerabilities if you hadn't patched your system
regularly but Shields up wasn't the place to discover that. Bellsouth has
a Windows mentality , tho we are gradually winning some of the techs
over. The company policy is to treat all complaints as windows problems.
Ours when checked by plugging into their modem doesn't get more than a
couple of KBS faster. As I said, 10LBS up and 7 up seems way too slow for
anything that calls itself DSL.
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