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Adventures off the Net

14 Jan '07 - 22:19 by benr

Loosing your internet connectivity can sometimes be considered a forcible break from the hustle and bustle of life on the net.... unless you work from home. Last week my Comcast Internet connectivity started tweeking on me. Network speeds dropped significantly but I brushed it away as network troubles or upgrades or something. The speed issues got worse and worse to the point that just logging into a system via ssh took minutes. We did some major internal network changes last week and getting anything done was a massive struggle making a tense situation really painful and extremely frustrating. Friday afternoon the network just crapped out completely.

My cable TV has experienced problems as well, with a heavily distorted picture (the tell-tale digital "pixelization" effect). No TV and no network has meant a lot of family time, which is good, but I'm falling behind in my workloads significantly.

Finally today someone from Comcast came out and as it turns out there is a problem with my network tap off the main-line. His diagnostics showed network signal rising and falling widely but doing so in the lower end of the range, all below 30%. And the crappy thing is that apparently replacing that tap requires a specialist, all of which are off until after the holiday weekend.

Working out of a Starbucks sucks. I'm in one as I post this. How people do it on a normal basis I don't know. Just working on a MacBook is a strain for me... its so confided, unlike my monster Solaris box(es) at home which assist in work.

So anyway, I'm off the net until Tuesday. Anyone waiting for stuff from me should keep waiting.

I will say that one upshot besides all the family time is that you really can focus when you don't have Google, Wikipedia, mailing lists, email, and otherthings available to you. I've been improving my e-mail skills lately and having nothing but the Cyrus SASL and Postfix source tarballs to get you through a test installation helps to keep you from getting side-tracked. ;)

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Aha, that must be why my container isn’t ready yet. :-)

Joe (URL) - 15 January '07 - 10:25

“Working out of a Starbucks sucks. I’m in one as I post this.”Why don’t you simply drive to your workplace? Is it too far?

UX-admin (Email) - 15 January '07 - 14:45

And I like to read simple paper books :)

ultramen (Email) (URL) - 15 January '07 - 20:42

I am painfully remembering the days when All I had was dialup. I would admin a bunch of systems from home. I only used one ssh session, but the remote system was running screen to save all my progress. Luckily, I can run most of my stuff via command line. Heaven forbid if I needed to forward X (insert breaking wood noise here).

I wish I had remote access to all my stuff from home. OFW . . .

Hope normality returns soon!

Craig A. Betts (Email) (URL) - 16 January '07 - 11:32

Verizon Fios, if you can.
Reasoning: name one service in your house that has practically 99.5% uptime. Cable? Nope. Electric? Can you say rolling brown outs during the summer? Phone? Exactly. Self powered, and with FIOS (if available) fiber optic speeds. Plus, they are beginning to offer cable/movie services.
One monopoly(comcast) versus another (verizon). I’ll go with the one that offers better uptime.

Bob (Email) - 17 January '07 - 12:04

Cyrus SASL is an irremediably broken piece of crock. Build Postfix with Dovecot SASL instead.

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