FWIW, the baseline electricity rate here is only 11 cents/kWh, but there's
a tiered rate schedule and the extra power pushes me into the 200-300% of
baseline category. That has a marginal rate of 38 cents/kWh.
So Bob what are you planning on doing with the retiring Alpha system?
Keeping it, sorry :-) It's a nice server...
Bob
Sampsa,
You JUST moved! Looking to move again so soon???
FIOS (in NH) was DSL over fibre up to 20M down. If you are looking for
bandwidth look where Verizon competes with what used to be Bell South.
Another option might be in Washington State or some other high-tech area
with infrastructure that some big company paid for either directly or
indirectly.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 19:34
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] CODA replaced by CHARON
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be
available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell
my flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by
Be Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get
14-16 down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got
two lines and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:43, Gregg Levine wrote:
My problem is that my apartment (flat to you) is as old as the
hardware we sometimes discuss, call it tail end of the Sixties. So
even though they recently updated the copper, I do not believe it is
capable of supporting FIOS, but it may be available else where in
Queens.
Well you should do what we do in my building (built during the latter end of the glorious reign of Queen Victoria, 1890s or thereabouts) - just drill a hole in the wall, Conservation Orders be damned :)
That's how I managed to get at least dual LNB satellite ports in every room - the sat guy dropped a single coax and one optical cable from the roof along the outer wall, the coax powers some crazy muxer on the roof that sends 16 LNB feeds over the optical cable into a demux in my machine room with 16 LNB coax outputs. Result: Sky HD everywhere. Woo hoo. Best GBP 2500 ever spent :)
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be
available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell my
flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by Be
Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get 14-16
down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got two lines
and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
Hello!
Well it is available on new construction everywhere in Staten Island,
and everywhere in general on Long Island.
I believe if people want it, then it is available the same way in
Westchester CO.
As for NYC? (Manhattan and the Bronx, also Queens and Brooklyn), well
they got permission to offer the TV service for people who want it,
the data delivery end may also be included.
My problem is that my apartment (flat to you) is as old as the
hardware we sometimes discuss, call it tail end of the Sixties. So
even though they recently updated the copper, I do not believe it is
capable of supporting FIOS, but it may be available else where in
Queens.
In fact regarding the Dalek, Forbidden Planet (The bookstore) is
selling a reasonable range of Doctor Who items, so I've got the Third
Doctor watching me type, and a Dalek trying to get its grubby
protuberances over everything I do.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:24, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
That's what I'd heard, that's not great. Any idea when FiOS will be available? I suppose this gives me some time to line up visas and sell my flat, always did want to live in NYC...
I have a reasonably ropey DSL here (wires provided by BT, IP service by Be Unlimited, which is really O2, which is really Telefonica) and I get 14-16 down, 2-2.5 up / line - got so fed up with the "low" speeds I got two lines and a load balancing router.
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much
can you get up/down?
Sampsa
Hello!
Typically 1.5M one way and 768K the other. AT&T keeps mucking up the
figures so I can't get a straight answer out of them.
I ended up sticking with AT&T (Who was my dialup service provider)
when those clowns at Verizon couldn't give me a straight answer at
all. This is before FIOS of course......
My one problem is that technically it's a consumer grade connection as
opposed to a business one so I can't do very much with it. I did at
one point investigate the AT&T business offerings but I never got an
accurate response from that office.
And even though I have TWCNY for cable TV, they've stopped offering me
their version of broadband access for some reason.....
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 4 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
That's a great arrangement - what are the broadband options like - how much can you get up/down?
Sampsa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Phil Mendelsohn <phil at rephil.org> wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA
at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something
like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't
matter) in the winter to get those rates...
Phil
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Hello!
I live in a typical NYC apartment where the power costs (including
fuel gas for cooking) are bundled into the rent so they never tell me
the rates.
But the last time I check on the ConEd rates here they were on a par
with both places. And sometimes they were so low the utility needed to
bundle the power (electric) rates with steam and gas to convince us to
believe them. Remember in NYC as well as in some parts of Westchester
CO, Con Ed supplies both gas and electricity, and steam plus the other
two in Manhattan.
So Bob what are you planning on doing with the retiring Alpha system?
How big is he, and so forth.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
Bob Armstrong wrote:
CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E)
but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA at
something like 38 cents/kWh
Here's a comparison you won't enjoy:
Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.)
But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't matter) in the winter to get those rates...
Phil
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
I live in London, but this weekend will probably the first weekend
this year I won't be here.
Dan
2009/11/3 Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>:
Guys,
If you're in or around London this weekend, let me know - I'm throwing a "92
Years Since The October Revolution" themed house party. Why? Why the hell
not.
Sampsa
