The day has come…! I can finally get something faster than 1.5Mbit/s at home. I have applied for the 8Mbit/s upgrade with Internode and I will be leeching Linux ISOs as soon as they go to air in the US…
Internode has enabled 8Mbit/s … woot
January 10th, 2007 · No Comments
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Why Telstra's FTTN network is a furphy, was a furphy and is always going to be a furphy
February 3rd, 2006 · 5 Comments
I just posted this comment at Whirlpool at about Telstra's proposed "Fibre to the Node" network.
Thorpiedo wrote:
Some of Telstra's proposals are outrageous, but some (i.e. FTTN) would solve many problems we currently face with the availability of higher-speed broadband in…
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Warming up to WiMax
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments
I just posted a review of Unwired's new PCMCIA card on APCMag.com. (My incessant nagging to get a look at one of these finally paid off!)
I'm looking forward to the day my laptop has WiMax built in and can access…
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Shock: Gusworld prefers dial-up
October 3rd, 2005 · No Comments
Turns out I was wrong about Angus Kidman, self-professed "excessively well travelled journalist/junket whore".
He uses dialup most of the time when he is overseas if his hotel doesn't have in-room broadband.
I don't know whether that makes me more technologically advanced…
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Traceroute from a 747
September 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment
I'm extracting some true geek pleasure out of being on the internet while in a 747-400, 35,000 feet up en route from Heathrow to Singapore thanks to the Boeing Connexion wireless broadband system on the plane. And because I got…
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Observations of a travelling geek
September 27th, 2005 · No Comments
Angus Kidman would be proud; I've been travelling Singapore, France and the UK for the last few weeks and been giving my 15" Apple PowerBook, Nikon D70 digital SLR camera and Sony Ericsson S700i mobile phone a workout.
I've made some interesting discoveries:
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