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alexpgpEvents meshed well this morning. My telecon ended around 7:45 am and as I was heading for the car, I got a call from the cable installer to say he was on his way. I beat him to the house by a few minutes.
It turned out his job was to install a "trap" that is designed to keep me from getting cable TV while allowing me to get broadband service. As the fellow worked carefully in our waterlogged back yard, I called TimeWarner to see if I could set up their basic service and their one French channel and one Russian channel for what their brochure indicated would cost about $30 per month, with the idea being to avoid another service call (and installation charge).
I was rapidly disabused of the idea when the TW sales rep explained that, between this and that, getting the service I described would cost about $70 per month! Oh, well...
In any event, the broadband installation went well, although the installer wouldn't touch my wireless router, saying something about "liability issues." What he didn't say - and perhaps didn't know - was that upon initially connecting to the network, TW captured my VAIO's MAC address (a unique address that identifies my VAIO's network hardware), which thereupon became a necessary component of any connection to the system. Fortunately, I have DD-WRT running on my wireless router, which includes a capability to "clone" a MAC address, for just such an occasion.
So here I am, connected to the cloud via cable, and let me tell you: the throughput so far is pretty good, exceeding a half megabyte per second over my wireless link to the router!
I now return myself to my regularly scheduled day.
Cheers...
It turned out his job was to install a "trap" that is designed to keep me from getting cable TV while allowing me to get broadband service. As the fellow worked carefully in our waterlogged back yard, I called TimeWarner to see if I could set up their basic service and their one French channel and one Russian channel for what their brochure indicated would cost about $30 per month, with the idea being to avoid another service call (and installation charge).
I was rapidly disabused of the idea when the TW sales rep explained that, between this and that, getting the service I described would cost about $70 per month! Oh, well...
In any event, the broadband installation went well, although the installer wouldn't touch my wireless router, saying something about "liability issues." What he didn't say - and perhaps didn't know - was that upon initially connecting to the network, TW captured my VAIO's MAC address (a unique address that identifies my VAIO's network hardware), which thereupon became a necessary component of any connection to the system. Fortunately, I have DD-WRT running on my wireless router, which includes a capability to "clone" a MAC address, for just such an occasion.
So here I am, connected to the cloud via cable, and let me tell you: the throughput so far is pretty good, exceeding a half megabyte per second over my wireless link to the router!
I now return myself to my regularly scheduled day.
Cheers...
