-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 WC>  Hey got a 52K connection yesterday!
 WC>  50 percent of the time 50667KB with the rest mostly 47 - 49.

 RJT> Sounds like your efforts to get a decent pair on the phone line are
 RJT> paying off here...


And to top it off Internet Junction accepts payment by check
on a quarterly basis at 1/2 the cost of Verizon!!!
Next month I'll have 2 ISP's for a short period until I
86 Verizon.  IJ has unlimited time at 9.95 with only the proviso
you can't stay linked full time and doubles available server
storage to 20 Meg :-)
Of course if I do go DSL it will be even harder to get a
second clean line if I'm using another ISP should I get stuck with
a cruddy second pair.
Actually I understated a bit, getting 50667K maybe 60 - 70
percent of the time but still only the one 52K.

 WC> I guess support these days is
 WC> limited to 1/2 the expected CMOS battery life :-(

 RJT> Yeah.  Though I was thinking of printer manuals when I wrote that.

 There was support for my old bubblejet in the CAB files on the drive :-)

 RJT> There aren't any details about how to talk to the bloody thing,  escape
 RJT> sequences and whatnot like they used to give you.  And when I got my
 RJT> 14.4 Zoom modem, the booklet that came with that was abosolutely
 RJT> pathetic!  There was *nothing* in there about fax capabilities,  even
 RJT> though it was supposed to be a fax-capable modem.  I guess they just
 RJT> assumed that you'd use the software they gave you with it to do fax
 RJT> handling.

I've got nothing at all on the PCI Rockwell HCL, have to search
for a Limux driver for that and failing that just use the one
in the NEC I know is supported. Feeling sorta rough today
and not quite up to moving the tape backup and printer
over here to install Linux  on this machine.

 RJT> If it weren't for an accident in my running across a
 RJT> reference to it on their bbs,  I wouldn't have known that there was
 RJT> another, bigger manual available for the thing.

I figured since the H.P. Pavilion was such a later model there'd
be lots of support on the web, imagine my surprise when I found
about 1/10th the support of my P.B. 486 and that of limited usefulness :-(
I guess an industry comsumed by "plug and play" sees economic
stability in disposable computers with only the few willing to hassle
what it takes to stay competitive with older equipment :-(
Notice how my 433MHz Pentium suddenly became older equipmemt in my
eyes, took 9 years for that to happen with my 486, a month with
the H.P. Pentium.
Linux will be the salvation of both this and the NEC
but only when I get a solid backup solution before playing
around.
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