[wplug] Pittsburgh DSL questions

[Ben Beige]

Armstrong up here in butler county has all "Server side" ports blocked, 
that hasn't stopped me and my brother from running sites on other ports and 
using no-ip.com to redirect to the right port


At 12:45 AM 2/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>On Feb 15, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Lance Tost wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
>>>         For connectivity, DSL is a crappy technology. This is the
>>>twenty-first century. We should not be using circa 1800's technology in
>>>this day and age in the form of unshielded untwisted copper pair.
>>
>>According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coax_cable#Timeline, coax
>>cable was patented in 1884 :)
>
>I would also point out that old technology needn't be replaced just 
>because it is old.  The bicycle is 1800's technology as well, and is still 
>more practical than something super-modern like the segway.   To 
>paraphrase Neil Postman, the question to ask with any new and 
>revolutionary technology is "what is the problem to which this is the 
>solution".  Cable internet is great for downloading mail and web 
>access.  That's what I've got right now, download speeds are terrific.
>Upload speeds are rather poor but usually irrelevant.  For a while I was 
>having constant problems with outages but the third time they reran the 
>cable from the street seems to have finally fixed it (I hope).
>
>>>         Cable is the way to go for residential connectivity.
>>
>>Not for me.  Not without static IPs and not with that ridiculously low
>>upstream cap.  I've also heard many complaints of cable getting dog-slow
>>when your whole neighborhood is on browsing... No personal experience
>>though.  One of my in-laws has a problem where they sometimes have to shut
>>off their cable modem and *unplug* their cable from it for 5 minutes to
>>get it to work again.
>
>I'm not sure who the predominant/only cable internet provider is for 
>Pittsburgh as I have not checked into cable much, but if it is Comcast 
>then you also have to deal with the fact that just about every useful port 
>is blocked.
>
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Ben Beige
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