Please wait...
If you're in a metropolis like NYC, chances are *someone* has either lit your building or deliberately deployed a metro ethernet infrastructure into it. Good luck anywhere else though. Your best bet is to order an OC3 so they have to run fiber :)
The PON technology that runs FiOS is *capable* of QoS but they're not using it for anything other than reserving enough bandwidth for voice. To be honest, I'm still absolutely thrilled with my FiOS service; it's blazingly fast *all* the time and I've had close to zero downtime in the nearly five years I've had it. There is certainly no business class SLA attached to it, of course. But it's still several orders of magnitude more dependable than anything the cable company is capable of delivering.
disconnecting the modem from both the cable and power. I had to upgrade my modem so I purchased one, at that
point my IP address changed, but I don't think it has changed since. I logged it at one time and a Dec 3, 2013
shows the same IP address as today.
It may not be static, but it hasn't changed.
class SLA attached to it, of course. But it's still several orders of
magnitude more dependable than anything the cable company is capable of
delivering.
Two tin cans tightly connected with a string would be "several orders of magnitude more dependable than anything the cable company is capable of delivering."
Goodbye Internet. Hello Hinternet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio
Not that it would get much data across quickly, but low data requirements would find a way.
still in use.
What IG said. From a provisioning standpoint, when I have a client that insists on FiOS, it's actually considered a Broadband equivalent, on the order of Cable or DSL - definitely not T1. Believe it or not, we can even get an SLA for it - it's just not worth much once the calcs are done. T1 and MPLS are still the way to go if you need decent quality of speed and dependability....if you can afford the cost, that is; the jump is huge.
Meanwhile, what I usually see cost conscious buyers do is simply get broadband service from two or more providers (one telco and one cablecrap) and use one as a backup for the other. After about half a dozen support requests to change a VPN peer address in a two week period, our ops guys figure out that they're on a dynamic IP and tell them we don't support that and they have to figure out a way to make it work automatically.
them we don't support that and they have to figure out a way to make it
work automatically.
Heh.
It's cheap to get a static IP from VZN and TW. Their QOS still sucks, even with the static IP...
not recently. For some reason Amazon put it on "the cloud" for me and then told me I can listen to it whenever,
wherever I want.
I can't listen to it in my car when I want.
The cloud has clouded your brain
You're talking to a brain in a vat. IG uploaded his consciousness to teh cloud last year.
As for who or what you ate lunch with the other day... I don't know. Be worried.
Wow. Just ... wow.
Douchebag cable companies are now using SUBSCRIBERS' ROUTERS as public wi-fi hotspots.
Comcast: [ http://tinyurl.com/o23vvps ]
Cablevision: [ http://tinyurl.com/ogztv2a ]
Even if they quietly offer an option to turn it off, how many subscribers are going to know? How many will instead just assume they have lousy service instead of understanding that someone in the area is sharing their bandwidth?
The firmware supposedly doesn't count against the subscriber's bandwidth, but there's only so much bandwidth in the wired pipe into the customer prem to begin with.
Douchebag cable companies are now using SUBSCRIBERS' ROUTERS as public
wi-fi hotspots.
So... all the customer need do is go to the local tech-toys Big Box store and buy his own DOCSIS V(whatever) cable modem - without any wireless at all - and a good wireless router and run his/her own equipment.
That has two advantages.
1. you can give the cable company their modem back and no longer have to pay a monthly fee for "leasing" their modem
2. you now have absolute configurable control over your own "site." Want to let some folks use your wireless? Put in a password and tell them ("pennyisaleech" as on Big Bang Theory is just one!).
The traffic from the provider to the modem could be separate but the wifi might cause bandwidth problems.
Every once and a while I check the available wifi signals around the house, I occasionally pick up one that
looks like a business name along with the same name with "Guest" after it, the guest is open. I wonder if that
is a TimeWarner(almost Comcast) modem/router. This is a strictly residental area so I have no idea where that
signal is coming from.
Aftermarket cable modems abound. With and without WiFi. I recommend without. A simple modem that is just that - simple - talks to the cable on one side and ethernet on your side.
Connect that to an aftermarket ethernet/WiFi router. I ***strongly*** recommend the cicso home office router. About a hundred bucks. Probably not at Best Cry, but maybe at Frys. Try NewEgg on line. I've been running that thing at home for over a year and I love it.
way back in the days when wifi routers were pricy, there was a company called 'la fonera' around here.
they would give you an accesspoint for free. it would have a second antenna, for the public hotspot.
since theres QOS and bandwith shaping in the linux kernel which works pretty well nowadays (which you will find in most routers) I don't see the point in not doing it?
I have always hated the devices branded by the ISP. They had ridiculously little configuration options and performed like crap, often. In germany, the Fritz! Box is widely used, often unbranded. Had some security issues lately, but overall gives fine grained control and can be pimped with the freetz! software. Kind of a parasite mod, which lets you do even more basic linux stuff. Like running dropbear.
The el cheapo ISPs here wont give you support if you do not use their crap box, some even do not give you the login credentials. And I doubt that my mom could exchange an ISP box with a free one. She would refuse to do so, I guess. It is also one of the most common tasks I do for my clients, only very few of them dare to do it themselves.