Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
: On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:01:27 -0400 Brian Riley (maillist) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Direcway bi-directional satellite since April and am fairly happy with it. Isn't there a daily download limit of 500 or 800 MB? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
Ooppps that was $100 up front and $100/mo versus $600 upfront and $60 a month - same service, just one way is financing the equipment and installation. On 9/9/04 10:37 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:01:27 EDT Brian Riley (maillist) said

Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
and say 'wire the whole town or wire nothing!' Cheers ... BBR On 9/9/04 11:21 AM, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:37 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:01:27 EDT Brian Riley (maillist) said: My download speeds

Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
Oh yes, there are some real dirtbags on both Dish and Direct internet services ... I was lucky I found a local dealer in Milton, VT who was a real pleasure to work with. On 9/9/04 11:32 AM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus the local Direcway licensees were scum, trying to get

Re: FYI: Philly considers wireless Internet for all

2004-09-08 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
I will second the vote for Pat's Steaks, personally I always felt that Reading Terminal Market should have been considered in violation of a dozen or more provisions of the Geneva Convention! I always get a kick out of New England shops that offer real Philly Cheesesteaks ... when I point out

Re: Verizon offering 3Mbps

2004-09-08 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
I have had Direcway bi-directional satellite since April and am fairly happy with it. I have the DW6000 modem/router unit that feed my LinkSys WRT54G and have two Macs, a p4 running WinXP and two Linux boxes plus a Linux laptop and a Netgear Print Server on the system. Every thing seems happy

Re: Mail, PIMs, CRMs and not Windows :)

2004-01-26 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
I must concur about the whole office V.X suite on OSX ... I know some guys of the development team and it is a whole separate code base. In many ways the Mac office suite is 'ahead' of the windows code base. Mant features appear in Office Mac then show up the following year in office XP ... I

Re: RH9 - setting up to a print server????

2003-10-05 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
This would defeat the whole purpose of having the print server, i.e. Not having to have a given computer up and running in order to print, the print server and printer use about one-fifth the the electricity that a Winders box uses! (I live off the grid and saving 80-130 watts matters!) On

RH9 - setting up to a print server????

2003-10-04 Thread Brian Riley (maillist)
I just installed RH 9 on one of my machines and it pretty much all works. I have a network here with an Apple Airport doing DHCP and have a NetGear PS110 (hard addressed as 10.0.1.100) print server on the net. I currently have two Winders XP boxes and two MacOSX boxes using the print server and