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Dear Time Warner

Posted at January 12, 2008 5:15 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

Hello,

You dial access dialer does not work with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I’ve confirmed this with tech support. It hasn’t been updated in a very long time anyway, so it’s probably time for an update.
Or, better yet, release the PPP script so that we don’t have to use your horribly outdated proprietary dialer and you don’t have to support it. That way it’ll work with OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Note: This may need to be forwarded to someone in the company who actually understand what PPP is.

Ben

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I’m switching from RoadRunner to pigeon

Posted at September 23, 2007 8:17 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

…but it’s going to be slower than his current modem and there might be a lot of packet loss due to Hawks ;-)

Wrong. A 4GB Flash disk can easily be attached to a pigeon’s leg. If round trip time is even 30 min (1800 sec) between his home and the collection point, and only one pigeon is in flight at the time, you get 4GB = 32Gb =~ 32,000,000,000b. 32,000,000,000 bits / 1500 s = 17,777,777 bits / sec = 17 MBps. This is faster than FIOS!

Latency may be a problem as would be packet loss.

-b.

From Slashdot commenter b0s0z0ku.

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Slower Internets?

Posted at June 7, 2007 11:07 pm | In Personal | By: Ben Woodruff

Cat stuck in tubes

Rochester Road Runner (Time Warner Cable) seems to be slower the last week or so. Speed tests have proven it…

Maybe I should give them a call…. :(

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Live podcast? + Time Warner problems

Posted at April 8, 2007 6:58 pm | In Podcasting | By: Ben Woodruff

Jordan and I may be getting together to record a podcast in the same room! woot.
Normally we are talking over Skype, which can be annoying due to bandwidth issues and such.

Also apparently TWC had some trouble with their cable lines and because they don’t want you using their dial-in service as a “backup” if your home cable goes out, they were nice enough to disable dial-in logins today. I was unaware of these problems because my cable at both home and work was working fine, so when I went to my grandparents and tried to dial in… I was not happy. So I drove over to work and tried to talk to them over their Live Chat support… they were rude and basically told me that even though there was no real reason I should not be able to login to the dial-in access, I couldn’t because of the cable outage. Thanks Time Warner! Stand up service.

It’s a pain in the butt to get their dialup to work even when they don’t close it off due to unrelated problems. I made a post a while ago on how to work around RoadRunner’s horrible dialer and connect under OS X. You can probably do something similar under Windows and Linux but unfortunately I don’t have specific instructions. The key thing is to use aolnet/ent.youremail as the user name.

It sucks that there are no good ISPs.

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Road Runner Dial Access Fix

Posted at December 24, 2006 6:44 pm | In Research | By: Ben Woodruff

I’ve been having trouble using Road Runner’s dial access for the past few months.
They’ve always claimed that it has been a problem on my end, and that because of that, they couldn’t do anything about it.
As I’ve posted before, I recently purchased a MacBook Pro (Macintel). Their dialer didn’t work on that. Totally different machine, 100% different software, different operating system, etc. This time they blamed it on the fact that it has a USB modem.
I’ll explain in this post how I got the dial access to work under OS X with Apple’s USB modem, WITHOUT even having their dialer installed.
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