I knew that it was not going to be good, but the need for a good place to live at a reasonable cost with the option to purchase was pressing. I think that I can work it all out, I have done so for others so I should be able to do it for my self. Half the fun is making it all work the way I want it to in the place I have chosen.
All of the places that I found that had the proper comms infrastructure were either dumps or exorbitant in price. This is nice, it is far enough out to be nice and quiet, and yet only 4 miles from down town Kelso, and Longview is just over the river, and of course if we want real night life we are still not that far from Portlandia... As to HughesNet, they I guess are sucking the rubes for all they can, sad but they have the only access for some people, and so they can ask whatever the pike will carry. I did not expect cable to get out this far, but figured that at only 4 miles from a center of town that they should be able to reach out here with DSL, when the guy I talked to said 18K ft, I figured that I was in trouble. When I lived in Tampa they flew through the 18K ft limitation (my first contact with DSL was when they offered it to anything within 16K ft, my last contact with them was out to 22K ft. I bet they are sipping the USF from the government, but does not look like they are doing much beyond the city limits. I am going to try to work with the local WISP and see what I can come up with there, they appear to be much more inclined to work with me, and that is a environment that I know well. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chuck, > > Thanks for the clarifications. > > <rant> People don't pay enough attention to the communications > infrastructure when they move. If the interwebs are important to you, > as they are to most people on this mailing list, they really deserve > much more consideration. It is common to assume that we are living in > the 21st century. This is sadly not the case, even in parts of > Portland, much less many rural areas. </rant> > > If you want to figure out what is going on, you can install tcpdump on > your OpenWrt device and sniff for the DHCP traffic. I've been known > to pipe the PCAP data from tcpdump over ssh to a real computer to > dissect it with wireshark, e.g. on the OpenWrt device: > > # tcpdump -s0 -w- [tcpdump options here] | ssh $user@$hostname 'cat > > /tmp/diagnostics.pcap' > > then, after you've captured enough data, back on $hostname: > > $ wireshark /tmp/diagnostics.pcap > > > -- > Russell Senior, President > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
