Re: [H] Comcast 250 GB Limit and monitoring software

2008-09-16 Thread FORC5
rollover usage would be nice, if they indeed cap things. fp At 10:08 PM 9/15/2008, James Maki Poked the stick with: Thanks to all who responded with comments, suggestions or viewpoints on the coming change to Comcast. I am not happy with the cap, even if I don't surpass it, because it leaves me

[H] Vista FireWire support

2008-09-16 Thread James Maki
I am looking at a firewire-to-ide bridge board at FireWire Depot; http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1643 In the description, it states that it Support Win98SE, ME, 2K, XP, Linux, FreeBSDS and MAC OS 8.6 or higher. No mention of Vista. I wrote customer support asking about

Re: [H] Comcast 250 GB Limit and monitoring software

2008-09-16 Thread James Maki
And to make matters more upsetting, I am seeing Comcast ads for their internet service touting downloading movies, tv and music. They have a special price for new customers of only $24.99 per month for the rest of the year. Now, why does a company that is complaining of network saturation by their

Re: [H] Wireless N router

2008-09-16 Thread Naushad Zulfiqar
Which budget Linksys N router do you have? WRT150N? If yes, then you're in luck, you can install DD-WRT on it and experience performance like never before :) On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: At 01:18 PM 9/13/2008, Ben Ruset typed: Agreed. I tried a

[H] mATX mobos

2008-09-16 Thread Naushad Zulfiqar
I'm thinking of building a new system. I really really don't want a monster case style system. After looking at shuttle's prices, I think I can build my own for a bit cheaper, but I would like to do a bit of comparison first. I have settled on a Silverstone case

Re: [H] Future PC thoughts? (maybe long, but worth reading :)

2008-09-16 Thread Soren
Thanks Scott, and, yeah, I've looked into the Soekris products. They seem expensive, though, as I would need some additional Soekris components for the purpose. At the moment, Asus' new Eee PC 701 for the firewall seems like a good buy. This is for my home office, so the cheaper the better.

Re: [H] Future PC thoughts? (maybe long, but worth reading :)

2008-09-16 Thread Soren
Not yet, but I've set up a few of the 54 models for friends. My reason for a stand alone system for firewalling, is that with my current solution, I've had absolutely zero spam, trojans, spyware, and what have we - for years. And I'd very much like to keep it that way. I'll check out the

Re: [H] Wireless N router

2008-09-16 Thread Soren
I set up one of those for my dad some months ago, as they needed some more power (big old house with thick brick walls). Works flawlessly, easy to setup, smooth internet connetion whereever in the house (using full encryption), with two laptops sharing only 1Mbit. Cards in the laptops are