Hi Robert, Sorry to hear about your loss
I have been concerned about the same thing happening to me since someone was interrupted just after they had broken into my house some years ago - I keep copies at my son's house to ensure that if all goes west, I can still recover. (PS I agree that hardware can be replaced - the sweat and tears of many years work is almost irreplaceable) Re: Wireless - it sounds great BUT where I have just moved to I cannot get DSL (due to cost cutting by the telco some years ago which they are slowly addressing)- I tried wireless options. It will either "work" or you will have big problems - you need line of sight and even trees on the edge of the beam can affect performance. You mention that you live on a mountain - can you "clearly" see the wireless transmitters from your roof ? Also, the distances involved are important - you may need to get a larger antenna, etc. All at additional costs, etc. Also, before "signing up" check out the link sharing arrangement. With all broadband environments, all clients "share" the back-end bandwidth - in Australia, it appears that the wireless providers do not use "fat" back-end pipes. Therefore, while there are only a few clients, all will be well, however, when there are many (as in my area due to lack of DSL) performance can be s..t (This sounds like the affect you were experiencing with DSL - fast link to exchange but too many clients sharing the back-end link) If you have trouble getting "wireless" direct, and you know someone close by (that you do have line-of-sight to) and they have with fast broadband ... an option is to establish a point-point link to their house and then piggy-back on their broadband connection (pay for a speed upgrade and then pay them say half of monthly bill) - there are several Internet sites that provide details of what is required Best of luck with your "forced upgrade" Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Meek Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: OT...Wireless networking As I'm now forced to set up a whole new system, I'm considering the idea of switching to a different type of Internet access while I'm at it. At my old address I had Comcast Broadband cable and it was great! Very fast, no lag when playing games on-line, and very dependable. But where I'm at now the ONLY thing available is thru Sprint and their supposed broadband DSL service! In fact I can't even get a different phone carrier here so I abandoned my phone and am using the line strictly for DSL. I bought a new Windows based Pocket PC, which includes a cell phone, for voice communications. Still however, this DSL seems to be a lot less than what they promised or what others who have competitive DSL accounts get. Sometimes it crawls along at less than average dial-up speeds, and other times it requires constant re-booting in order to keep it working at all! Anyway, my wireless phone account is through Verizon, and they also offer broadband wireless internet access that can be used via the pocket PC and/or a desktop system, and not only would it be cheaper all around, but it's advertisements also quotes speeds that are better than DSL service! Does anyone out there use a wireless setup? If so I'd appreciate hearing back from you, whether your experiences are good or bad. Primarily I need to know if there are different types that need consideration, or different modem/router configurations that can effect overall speed, if it's a reliable system 24/7, if the download and upload speeds under actual use are as good as I've been led to believe, and if there are any hidden problems associated with them, such as long lag times when playing online games like Battlefield 2. Although this last item isn't a priority, I DO like to take a break late at night and spend an hour or two getting rid of my aggressions! <g> It really helps when I get stuck on a particular problem! Lastly, I have a lot of information on my laptop that I would like to move over to my new desktop when it arrives. Unfortunately neither the CD-RW or the floppy on the laptop work at all and so the only way I can transfer this stuff is via a direct connection. Can that be accomplished in a peer to peer network between two machines just using an Ethernet to Ethernet cable, or an Ethernet to USB? All the data I had on networking is also gone of course, and I don't remember what it said about setting a system up to do this. Note, I do NOT want to have to go out and buy another piece of software, like Norton's PC AnyWhere, just to enable this ability for a couple of days! from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderator for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
