I'm BAACK!!!

[Guyver]

Okay, after a 2 week long hell without internet access and a move to a new city, a switch in employment, and a fight with the phone company (lousy lines), a 4-day install for the cable modem, and a 2-day move everything and clean the old apartment, I'm back and raring to go... After about a week's sleep (lol)

Anyways, not that anyone appears to have missed me, I am up and going with the new 1Mbit @Home service from AT&T, and so far (after the problem with the road construction crew tearing out the node), so good...

I will be trying to get onto UT later to see if it helps the lag issues I used to get...

Talk at you all later...

Guyver

[SCompRacer]

Let me be the first to say glad to see ya back, Guyver. Many major changes in your life, I see.

Is that 1Mbit service real pricey?

[Guyver]

Thanks....

Just a few, and with the sign-on bonus and relo package, their may be a few more ... Although they may not be "hardware" related....

The @Home service is 39.95 a month. The first month is free, 2nd month $20.00, 3rd month full price....

If there is interruption in service, you call in and let them know, they put you on a list, and when it's up again, you call back and they credit you for the down time... (I wish there weren't any but that would be in a perfect world)

As they get more outdated hardwire replaced with fiber, the capacity and number of people sharing bandwidth will go down.

Currently 2-wire shows about 400+kbit/s for connection speed while I am downloading Gentus from ABIT...

Guyv

[RoGuE]

Welcome back Guyver

I also suffer from lag in UT, but thats down to my super fast 56K modem connection

[ALBPM]

And we thought you were building some new monster system

Glad your back up and running.

Paul

[Guyver]

Don't I wish (on the system that is)...

The service (once they got the node fixed), hasn't been down once. Today I'm averaging 460Kb/s, which is a heckuva lot better than 56k...

Got NetIce's BlackICE Defender in place and working well. The only hits are coming from my own service provider's security monitoring.... - they are locked out cold...

Guyv

[SCompRacer]

Does your service get interrupted that much? Price wise it is getting more affordable. I bought a Zip parallel so I can DL those big files at work and carry them home.

I also interviewed but didn't get a position in St. Louis, Missouri. I was offered a position in Minnesota though. Way too cold up there though, might as well be in Canada.

Stuck in Illinoise I guess, with my Courier 56K.

[This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 04 April 2000).]