🚀 go-pugleaf

Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader <presence@mungepanix.com> wrote:
> 
>> There's some mandatory modem you need to get for $100. It's total 
>> bullshit, but they don't seem to be items you replace all that often.
> 
> I think you need it though, the one they gave me is a hybrid of sorts, does
> the adsl2+ or whatever it's called compatability, which is only good to 6mb
> and the other mode for the "up to 24mb".

I'm not sure why I have to buy the damn modem, and not also buy some line 
card out in the alley or pay for some other crap.

My current speedstream 4100 is pretty dusty though. It says first booted 
upin March 2006 and has the old ugly SBC logo all over each page.

> I dunno, maybe there is no difference but at least the Moto nvg510 they gave
> me doesn't use that stupid mac address based firewall. That drove me nuts
> when trying to put two ip's on a single interface with some of the machines.
> 
> There is one stupid thing on that 510, there is no admin login. If you just
> go to 192.168.1.254 on the lan, or someone visiting you, the default status
> page shows the network key for the wireless, in plaintext.

All those devices are pretty jenky. I'm using a cisco ASA because it has 
POE so I can run my access point and a camera (I'm a cam whore) off it, 
plus it doesn't break VPN traffic like whatever the early 2000s IOS on my 
2620 had.

hopefully I don't run into the nonsense you did, but waching crappy 
youtube videos becomes obnoxious with 6Mb DSL if you want to see stuff at 
720hd or whatever they call it. Someody is traffic shaping that, somewhere 
along the line, but I can't determine who it is.

I just got two 3.8Ghz xeons for my 2006ish desktop at home, which I also 
got windows 7 for. Amusingly, throwing $30 upgrade parts from the computer 
scrapper places is still cheaper than just getting a new computer that can 
actually power 5 or 6 hard drives.