Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-16 Thread bobgir2004
 I think the very definition of insanity is repeating the same action
 and expecting a different result.

Once saw a motivational poster:  If you always do what you always did,
you'll always get what you always got.

Except with computers.  Sometimes repeated restarts solve the darndest
problems.

Bob



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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread Tim Collier
The area I live in is currently being served by Adelphia Cable.  But,  
we got a notice in the mail a few weeks back saying that they are  
being bought out by Comcast.  There is supposed to be about a year  
for the transition to take place but I 'think' I'll be happy with  
Comcast.


Tim
On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Pacer wrote:


My Fellow PowerBook-philes and Tim,

Cable Modems would be nice if only we did not have one of the worst  
iterations of the Comcast Empire where I live.  It was formerly  
known as MediaOne, then later as ATT Cable and Broadband.   
MediaOne has the dubioius distinction of having the poorest  
customer service rating of any cable company ever.  Ever.  It was  
fantastic.  Man I still shudder about MediaOne.


Regardless, I will be moving to Birmingham, AL which only has  
Charter I understand.  I had to deal with them in Athens, GA.  They  
are not as technically savvy as Comcast, nor do they know how to  
run networks in general, plus they do not have as many nifty  
features, but goodness ... it's like the difference between Sun and  
Microsoft in cultures.  Sure, I'd prefer a Linux or Apple kind of  
culture, but at least it isn't an uncaring empire.


On an aside:  Apparently Paul Allen does have a stake in Charter.  Eh.

Still, business lines are expensive so I won't be able to run any  
nifty home-made servers from leftover computers running everything  
from NetBSD, OS 8.5 to RedHat 9.  I plan on getting the DreamCast  
an Ethernet adapter and turning it into something   That oughta  
be funny.  If my Mac SE had a larger hard drive I might even  
network it  (G)


Good luck with y'alls DSL and/or Cable Modems  and watch out  
for the lightning!  :-)


Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon


Tim Collier wrote:


I live in South Florida and we have thunderstorms everyday  
especially  in the Summer.  I used to have BellSouth DSL and had a  
similar  experience.  I use a cable modem now.  No more problems.


Tim





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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread david

On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:40 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:


on 13/06/05 22:12, Pacer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I live in South Florida and we have thunderstorms everyday  
especially

in the Summer.  I used to have BellSouth DSL and had a similar
experience.  I use a cable modem now.  No more problems.



For what it's worth, I used to have a Linksys router and, after a
thunderstorm, I found that it would not boot properly anymore and  
had to
throw it away. That's the first and only time a computer device of  
any kind
went belly up like this. I don't have to tell you that I never  
bought a

Linksys device again...

After growing up in the big city, 25 years ago I moved into the  
middle of rural Ohio where it was possible to make a local call by  
dialing just 4 numbers and until four years ago, the house I bought  
was referred to by locals as The Brinkman Place who, I might add,  
hadn't lived there since the late 1950s. Having moved into the middle  
of nowhere, I learned a great number of things that, up to then, I  
had no need or desire to know. For example: A thunderstorm 25 miles  
away can cause a surge in the phone lines which every phone in the  
county will survive but will kill a $300 modem that the insurance  
company won't pay for. (This was 83-84.) Another thing I learned the  
hard way (and amazingly enough even today too many people are unaware  
of) is that all surge protectors wear out and should be replaced  
frequently.


david


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread Kristina

 For what it's worth, I used to have a Linksys router and, after a
 thunderstorm, I found that it ...belly up like this. I don't have to tell you
 that I never  bought a Linksys device again...


I too live very rurally in NW Indiana,  and  built this house  at the edge
of a field where the  land mostly huge acreage of  soybeans or corn, except
for this subdivision which is a sand hill left by theglaciers which followed
THE FLOOD.  The soil is composed of  sand and oak leaves and has a  water
table which is only  about 2 feet down. I think it is an electrical
conductor of the most natural kind, its a wonder the moles don't all have
curly hair!

 I blew 3 modems for our dial up service the first  summer we moved in until
I found THE surge protector for the phone.

Now with the totally worthless linksys router, which like I mentioned is
being recalled and was mistakenly marketed for the US...I have explored
$everal kind$ of fre$h  $urge protector$ andhave had to try again  5 times
as they keep $ending the$ame equipment at $print$ ex$pen$e!!!

I have also contacted the Sprint field office to ask them to find  check
the grounding of the phone line and use ...something better.

Isn't it insanity to keep trying something that doesn't work?

I now await their new 2.0 versionof equipment. If I had a choice in DSL
service I would take it. Cable TV isn't even offered. I was thrilled to get
DSL, as homeschoolers we use technology for online classes, and library
like resources.

Kristina


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread David Lesher

There are things you can do to reduce lightning damage odds dramatically.

You need a good arrester (protector) with 3-wire gas tubes and/or 
'delta modules' at the service entrance. You MUST have a good ground. 
(Deity Help You if you are on a granite mountain...). You protect the 
power as well as the phone line WITH THE SAME GROUND POINT.


And you install things correctly. Most telco's fall down in that area...


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread David Lesher

And never ever use internal modems, be they DSL or dialup flavor.

External ones are good sacrificial lambs for your motherboard's longevity...


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread Timothy Luoma


On Jun 14, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Kristina wrote:


Isn't it insanity to keep trying something that doesn't work?


I think the very definition of insanity is repeating the same action  
and expecting a different result.


Or maybe that's marketing... I have a hard time telling the two apart.

TjL



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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-14 Thread Kristina
on 6/14/05 1:19 PM, Timothy Luoma at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Jun 14, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Kristina wrote:
 
 Isn't it insanity to keep trying something that doesn't work?
 
 I think the very definition of insanity is repeating the same action
 and expecting a different result.
 
 Or maybe that's marketing... I have a hard time telling the two apart.
heh heh heh... so right.

on a bad day insanity is motherhood...repeating the same thing and expecting
a result

...or maybe that's overstating the obvious,
...you have peanut butter on your shirt.

K


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-13 Thread darm0k

At 10:33 PM -0500 06/12/2005, Kristina wrote:

on 6/12/05 9:12 PM, Pacer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 By the appearance of the thunderstorm outside and the propensity for my
 DSL to go down in severe lightning, maybe mother nature will stop me .


Since I have had the Linksys Gateway G ADSL  wireless router...every puff of
bad weather blows the modem.
I mean Sprint has sent us 5 count em 5 new router/modems...several
techs...and 2 different surge protectors...$$$

Last nite  another blown wireless modem...and Sprint  now says that this
particular router is being recalled and it  was never supposed to be sold in
the USA.


The fact that a surge is hitting you so often, either thru your phone 
line or thru your power line is BAD.  VERY BAD.  It means your home 
is improperly grounded.  This is a fire hazard.  DO NOT ignore it. 
Fix it.


- Dan.

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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-13 Thread Kristina

 The fact that a surge is hitting you so often, either thru your phone
 line or thru your power line is BAD.  VERY BAD.  It means your home
 is improperly grounded.  This is a fire hazard.  DO NOT ignore it.
 Fix it.


That's what I thought too...it must be the lines...

Thanks for the warning
Kristina


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-13 Thread Kristina
on 6/13/05 9:02 AM, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Palm pilots are generally quite compatible with macs. I know my M500
 has never had a problem, OS 9 or OS X.
 
 What do you need one to do?


Schedule and project plan?...as portable files that fit in a purse...

I am not sure  what can be done with it
I have  homeschooled for the last 13+ years  and have just 2 high schoolers
left, having graduated my first last year.

The school thing is a huge planning project 6+ subjects w texts times the 2
dc  remaining around my table, who also take 2 instruments, play in an
orchestra and a Christian rock band, grimace, take karat.
In addition  both older girls have private students, piano guitar and
violin, amounting to 20 some families traipsing in and out of my home...

I need more  help  memory at my fingertips than my brain can do
I want to be able to plan a textbook, plot assignments, projects and tests
and  have the PDA  report the day's event of who's showing up and where do I
have to be and what do we have to do. with an alarm.

I also want world peace

Kristina
 also the cool gizmo factor appeals to me


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-13 Thread Tim Collier
I live in South Florida and we have thunderstorms everyday especially  
in the Summer.  I used to have BellSouth DSL and had a similar  
experience.  I use a cable modem now.  No more problems.


Tim
On Jun 12, 2005, at 11:33 PM, Kristina wrote:


on 6/12/05 9:12 PM, Pacer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


By the appearance of the thunderstorm outside and the propensity  
for my
DSL to go down in severe lightning, maybe mother nature will stop  
me .





Since I have had the Linksys Gateway G ADSL  wireless  
router...every puff of

bad weather  blows the modem.
 I mean Sprint has sent us 5 count em 5 new router/modems...several
techs...and 2 different surge protectors...$$$

Last nite  another blown wireless modem...and Sprint  now says that  
this
particular router is being recalled and it  was never supposed to  
be sold in

the USA.

My my my

Kristina
who would welcome any suggestions as to what I shoulld look for on  
ebay
concerning a  PDA which would b compatible with my  G3 /PB  OS  
9.2.2...or at

least what to avoid?


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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-13 Thread Pacer

My Fellow PowerBook-philes and Tim,

Cable Modems would be nice if only we did not have one of the worst 
iterations of the Comcast Empire where I live.  It was formerly known as 
MediaOne, then later as ATT Cable and Broadband.  MediaOne has the 
dubioius distinction of having the poorest customer service rating of 
any cable company ever.  Ever.  It was fantastic.  Man I still shudder 
about MediaOne.


Regardless, I will be moving to Birmingham, AL which only has Charter I 
understand.  I had to deal with them in Athens, GA.  They are not as 
technically savvy as Comcast, nor do they know how to run networks in 
general, plus they do not have as many nifty features, but goodness ... 
it's like the difference between Sun and Microsoft in cultures.  Sure, 
I'd prefer a Linux or Apple kind of culture, but at least it isn't an 
uncaring empire.


On an aside:  Apparently Paul Allen does have a stake in Charter.  Eh.

Still, business lines are expensive so I won't be able to run any nifty 
home-made servers from leftover computers running everything from 
NetBSD, OS 8.5 to RedHat 9.  I plan on getting the DreamCast an Ethernet 
adapter and turning it into something   That oughta be funny.  If my 
Mac SE had a larger hard drive I might even network it  (G)


Good luck with y'alls DSL and/or Cable Modems  and watch out for the 
lightning!  :-)


Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon


Tim Collier wrote:

I live in South Florida and we have thunderstorms everyday especially  
in the Summer.  I used to have BellSouth DSL and had a similar  
experience.  I use a cable modem now.  No more problems.


Tim




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Re: DSL and storms

2005-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/05 22:12, Pacer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I live in South Florida and we have thunderstorms everyday especially
 in the Summer.  I used to have BellSouth DSL and had a similar
 experience.  I use a cable modem now.  No more problems.

For what it's worth, I used to have a Linksys router and, after a
thunderstorm, I found that it would not boot properly anymore and had to
throw it away. That's the first and only time a computer device of any kind
went belly up like this. I don't have to tell you that I never bought a
Linksys device again...

-Laurent.
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DSL and storms

2005-06-12 Thread Kristina
on 6/12/05 9:12 PM, Pacer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 By the appearance of the thunderstorm outside and the propensity for my
 DSL to go down in severe lightning, maybe mother nature will stop me .


Since I have had the Linksys Gateway G ADSL  wireless router...every puff of
bad weather  blows the modem.
 I mean Sprint has sent us 5 count em 5 new router/modems...several
techs...and 2 different surge protectors...$$$

Last nite  another blown wireless modem...and Sprint  now says that this
particular router is being recalled and it  was never supposed to be sold in
the USA.

My my my

Kristina
who would welcome any suggestions as to what I shoulld look for on ebay
concerning a  PDA which would b compatible with my  G3 /PB  OS 9.2.2...or at
least what to avoid?


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