OT: VERY SIMPLE HOME NETWORK

[Bill Vermillion]

When asked his whereabouts on Mon, Dec 27 15:54 , Fairlight took the 
fifth, drank it, and then slurred: 

> At Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:03:30PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
> suspect Brian K. White was observed uttering:

> > If the alarm system uses the same phone line, then it seems like a 
> > no-brainer that you should filter it since:
> > a) it's on the line and it's not a dsl modem
> > b) you had any sort of problem at all
> > c) actually, "a)" was enough already

> In theory, yes.  In practise, not necessarily.

> I've been told that some people never even need filters at
> all--they simply have no problems. My in-laws are sitting at
> 18000 feet from the CO and they have two -hardwired- phones
> that have no jacks--wire from wall to phone entirely--and they
> have absolutely no problems. I don't even think they filtered
> the fax machine. They get a full 1.5/256 pipe's worth with no
> latency. I've benched it repeatedly. (Ask John how anal I am
> about testing circuits!!! [Be prepared for an exasperated, yet
> humorous response.])

....

> Say, I've been wondering, so long as we're on the topic.
> Everyone and their uncle seems to be saying their broadband is
> 70x faster than dialup. Earthlink comes to mind. So is everyone
> offering 3mbit, or do you think they're comparing against a
> 28.8 modem instead of a v.90? :)

Earthlink can be two different services.  My DSL is provided by
Sprint, but all the management, SMPT, usnet, etc., is from
Earthlink and my news source uses <myloginname>@earthlink.net
though I get billed by Sprint.

OTOH if you go with the cable system they will also give
you a choice of Earthlink or RoadRunner on cable. AOL has pulled
back a lot of their broadband offerings and I don't know if those
are still availbable locally [The AOL decision really seems
bizarre from my POV].

Locally using my handy dandy 'bc' I calculate the current speed
difference with the local cable at 89.28x faster than V.90.
[actually the 5Mb/sec goes into effect in three weeks or
as they say in computer-speak RSN].  I never saw a V.90 run
at it's full potential.

And when it comes to claims of speed [or anything else] you never
really know what the sales department is going to say. :-)  Salemen
are often the bane of the engineers. 

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com