BPI inside

Tag: Personal

  • Datamining

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  • Destiny

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  • Lifesign – Part 2

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  • Lifesign

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  • The worlds first oil-free economy

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  • MacGyver Returns – A Narrow Escape

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  • Broadband arrived

    Yeah, finally. Last Thursday my broadband order was delivered.

    Set it up using the ADSL-modem which was delivered three days earlier with some slight problems. The problems arised because I don’t like to start those "wizard" setup tools which are bundled with every providers connection and install crap all over the system. So I had to manually set up some things but the modem refused to work because it had no templates(?) installed. Had to fire up the providers setup-tool but canceled execution after it had the missing templates transfered. Strange stuff.

    Well nevertheless. Yesterday I purchased a Netgear DG834G ADSL modem and wireless router and installed it instead of the providers modem. Worked completely flawlessly and I was online with the new hardware within minutes.

    Later in the evening I upgraded the firmware on the router from version 2.10.22 to 3.01.25, which I found on Netgears DG834v2 Support Download Page.

    And since it runs embedded Linux and the source is availabe I’m looking forward to hack the crap out of it.

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  • Sent out the order

    As said last friday I sent the order form for the broadband ADSL connection to Inode.

    I’m curious how long it’ll take until the connection is up. I’m already looking out for an ADSL modem which has built-in WLAN support so that we can take andvantage of our wireless freedom of our laptops. Perhaps I’ll even set up one computer as some always-on thing for continuous connection and service providing. Dunno yet, there are some obstacles to drive around with something like that.

  • Acquiring broadband?

    The last few days I’ve been thinking about boosting my internet connection at home again. I thought about that already about a year ago but did not find anything suitable at that time.

    Of course I was looking for something all the time but only recently something changed. Somewhere around Christmas Inode enhanced their ADSL reselling products by two optional upgrades:

    • 7 GB Transfer Upgrade & Fair Use
    • 20 GB Transfer Upgrade & Fair Use

    With these upgrades I finally found a product which enables me for low-cost massive broadband. "Fair Use" in these options means that the transfer volume can be transgressed to 110%, without that there is no limit but I have to pay for every excess MB.

    I chose to buy the smallest available ADSL package (384/128 – 500MB) and enable the 7 GB option for it. I don’t really need a faster line and I doubt that decent online gaming (except fast FPSs) is affected by it.

    Well, including the option the price for the whole package lies below 30×80, very fine for me 🙂

    The order form is lying on my desk and I plan to send it over to Inode today. Better to do so because after the 15th I’ll have to pay extra installation fee.