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Comment on Comcast goes 100 Mbps commercial in Minn/St. Paul — for $370/month! by Comcast Exploring 250 Mbps Service – Though 50 Mbps to 100% and 100 Mbps to 20% is the 2011 target. « Things Red Wing

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:09:26 +0000

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Comment on Straight talk from a Verizon supervisor… by mikex

mikex — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:27:01 +0000

I’m a cable guy from a long time ago. I owned the company. Some tree cutters cut my brother’s plain old telephone service (POTS), so he asked me to fix it over the weekend. I put on cotton gloves because there’s voltage on that line, matched up the color codes from the three important wires, then stretched some junk wire I had in my cable truck to join them. Presto, the phone worked again. You can do that too if you know where the wire is broken. I put a little shelter over the wire so it wouldn’t get wet if it rained, which might have caused a hum in the line. Nevertheless, some kids came along and pulled the whole thing apart. My brother called the following Monday and had the Telco guys do a permanent repair with heat shrink and the whole nine yards. By the way, I owned the cable company at the time.

Comment on Quick pictures – Cox DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem service by Steve

Steve — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:34:26 +0000

Hi Doug

I have looked and searched pretty much everywhere. I guess I will have to go for the MOTO SB620? That is a 3.0 and can be picked up at Best Buy.

Thanks Steve

Comment on Quick pictures – Cox DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem service by Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:09:43 +0000

I don’t think you can get them over the counter at this point in time.

Comment on Quick pictures – Cox DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem service by Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:18:13 +0000

Where can I find one of these DPC3000 for retail purchase?

They only seem to be avail through cable provider.

Comment on Key highlights from France Telecom's HD voice deployment by Orange bringing HD voice to mobile phones in UK « HD Voice News

Orange bringing HD voice to mobile phones in UK « HD Voice News — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:57:09 +0000

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Comment on Belkin Gigabit powerline network adapter – Tech support lame by Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:54:11 +0000

I was going to suggest upgrading the firmware; the newer version was more stable.

The lack of software tools provided with the Belkin is a pretty big oversight.

I may go complain to Belkin at CES about it if I find 5 minutes in my schedule. The Gigabit devices provide more raw speed than the 70Mbps Netgear 4 port Powerline bridge devices, but the Netgear devices have 4 ports and better software.

On a per-port/device basis, I would have to buy another two or three Gigabit devices AND play cable swap in some instances.

Here’s to hoping Belkin rolls out a 4 port Gigabit Powerline adapter at CES…

Comment on Belkin Gigabit powerline network adapter – Tech support lame by Phily

Phily — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:19:42 +0000

Just updated using this updater: http://en-uk-support.belkin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/835/kw/Gigabit%20Powerline/r_id/166
Now running 23569 firmware – seems to have resolved my ping/connection drop issues. I can now see the units swapping between the higher and lower homeplug speeds with the indicator light swapping from blue to amber semi randomly. Kinda annoying you can’t see the speeds in a windows app like yea can with the Netgear units…oh mumm

Comment on Belkin Gigabit powerline network adapter – Tech support lame by Phily

Phily — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:25:47 +0000

After using the adapters after my old Netgear 200 units gave up the ghost I got a pair of Belkin Gigabit adapters – using them in the same sockets as my old Netgear units (they are now in the trash) and their speed isn’t any better – but now I have another problem, the connection through them drops at random.
Try doing ping tests to a device on the far end of the Belkin Gigabit connection, I’ve noticed i get dropped pings every 5-10 pings. Very annoying…

Comment on 8×8 gets ready for HD communications by Wideband voices 2009 – 9 people talking about HD Voice that you need to listen to « HD Voice News

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:14:25 +0000

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