From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 28 23: 5:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AE237B405 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6T65W859200; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "David Johnson" , Subject: RE: Network throughput Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:05:31 -0700 Message-ID: <002901c117f4$7955a6c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <01072822531000.31045@weathertop.home> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's easy - and these days Home Depot carries a whole selection of stuff. It's kind of funny to go in there and see boxes of CAT-5, crimp tools, RJ45 jacks and plugs and such the next row over from the bags of steer shit and fish head fertilizer in the Lawn and Garden section. :-) I know there's an anthropological lesson somewhere in there! Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: David Johnson [mailto:david@usermode.org] >Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:53 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Network throughput > > >On Saturday 28 July 2001 10:18 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Anyway, what I hope that you draw from all this is that DSL is not a >> rock-solid circuit delivery mechanism and that the last 30 feet of wire >> inside the house can kill the circuit as surely as a bridge tap or load >> coil in the Telco section of the circuit. > >Thanks for the laughs! > >>From my location and proximity to the telco, I should be getting double the >DSL speeds I currently receive. But I never complain. I may be dense >on a lot >of topics, but when my phone lines are thirty years old, run 200 feet from >the MPOE to my apartment wall, and then twenty feet from an ancient 4-prong >jack to a modern jack, and then another ten feet to my computer, I >figure I'm >getting awesome speeds! > >If I wasn't so lazy and knew what I was doing, I'd replace that old 4-prong >and eliminate ten feet of line. > >-- >David Johnson >___________________ >http://www.usermode.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message