To persons w/ a cable modem

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Noah Fields <noah at concord.org> wrote:
> I have apparently different experiences with RCN:
> 
> I was also a bleeding-edge adopters for somerville RCN.  And it
> really *was* painful the first week.  ... Now the connection seems
> to always be up, and is quite speedy.  I get between 50K - 120KB /
> Sec Down pipe, and about 20KB / Sec up if things are really flowing
> right. I have had the connection drop for multiple hours on a few
> occasions, which is worse than what my Mediaone friends experience.
> But I am a satisfied costomer. (knock wood)

Excellent!  Well, after all the waiting, I got a call from one of
the tech-support managers (Susan) late this afternoon confirming that
the techs are doing the Somerville overhaul between 2am and 6am tonight.

Hopefully, they don't accidentally knock the plug out of your existing
working service.  ;-)  Apparently a large percentage of Somerville
customers are suffering through non-working service, but some of the
hardware is up and running fine.

I believe the Hybrid hardware is supposed to perform better than M1X's
hardware--anyone done any benchmarks, simple ones like Noah's above?

In another thread, Christoph wrote:
> I did not know that BLU was an acronym for LinuxPimp.com...
> And no, the DNS name is not in use yet...

I take it that job-seekers and employers-seeking-help aren't welcome in
your inbox?

> Does anyone know of a good freeware telnet client for winblows 95?

I used to use WinQVT/Net, but now I've switched to Tera Term with SSH
extensions.  Look on my Linux box at http://envoy.ci.net/download for
ttermp23.zip and ttssh14.zip.  The Unix/Linux sshd source code is there
too.  (If RCN changes my IP address tonight, check this URL again after
about 10am Tuesday.)

-rich
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