I regret to say that I will be unable to attend and present at tonight's
NHRuby user group meeting. Nick Plante, however, will still be giving
his talk on Rack. You can expect the meeting to wrap up around 8pm
instead of 9pm this evening.
I apologize for the sudden change of plans and short
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter,
happens the first Monday of most months. On June 2nd, we'll be meeting
at the Hopkinton Public Library [1] from 7 PM to 9 PM. Directions and
maps are available at
http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org/directions.htm. Open to
Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be
decent, but now they are horrible.
Whats driving me away:
Internet: Blocking port 25. Yes, I could illegally hack my modem, but
its not worth it. There goes all my logwatches and cron job outputs.
Cable: Their compression
Speaking of this, oddly enough about 2 days ago I got a few logwatch reports
from my server at home, sure enough I checked and my port 25 is now
unblocked. You may want to check yours as well.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Various things Comcast is doing
for internet call the people at mv.com - great service, nothing
blocked, and a free static ip just for asking
... if you can get them. We're under a mile from the CO here in west
concord and we're failing the loop qual because they dont have enough
capacity. Fairpoint DSL (formerly verizon) is
Mine was blocked last night. After asking the tech at comcast about it a
few times on if there was a time. He found out that it was at 3:01 on
the 19th. Oddly enough, thats when my logwatch reports are sent from 2
different systems.
How long was yours blocked?
Dan
kenta wrote:
Speaking of
I'm in Southern Nashua. Right at the border, so I think that mv.com is
out. I will look into fairpoint though. I know I can't get fiber (that
would be ideal), I've never done DSL before, but I know its different
setup with PPoE and such.
Dan
Arc Riley wrote:
for internet call the people at
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They [Comcast] used to be decent ...
They did? ;-)
I am strongly looking at DirectTV for tv ...
I've got a friend who has DirecTV and really likes it. Same number
of channels, same quality, for less money. He says he
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm in Southern Nashua. Right at the border, so I think that mv.com is
out. I will look into fairpoint though. I know I can't get fiber (that
would be ideal), I've never done DSL before, but I know its different
setup with
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 21:29 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
I am strongly looking at DirectTV for tv ...
I've got a friend who has DirecTV and really likes it. Same number
of channels, same quality, for less money. He says he almost never
has signal problems (rain fade) -- only if there's
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:18:17 -0400
From: Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
I'm in Southern Nashua. Right at the border, so I think that mv.com is
out. I will look into fairpoint though. I know I can't get fiber (that
MV is available far beyond Nashua. I
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never done DSL before, but I know its different
setup with PPoE and such.
Not sure what you mean by that. I'm no networking guru, but I have DSL
(from TDS, in Hollis), one box has a combined modem/router/wireless
hub with
Ben Scott writes:
Where are you located? If we know where you're at, we might be able
to make specific recommendations. In the Manchester area, give MV a
call (http://www.mv.com). Around Haverhill or Amesbury (MA), try USAi
(http://www.usai.net).
For those in MA, I'd highly recommend
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... TOS/AUP ...
That is all fine and good, but it doesn't absolve them of the fact that
an agent of the company is not informed (perhaps strategically) properly
about their service regulations.
True enough. But the
On May 20, 2008, Dan Miller sent me the following:
Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be
decent, but now they are horrible.
What ISP is a good alternative to Comcast?
This seem to be a recurring topic. Perhaps it should be added to the
wiki? The general
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:17 -0400, Dave Johnson wrote:
Ben Scott writes:
Where are you located? If we know where you're at, we might be able
to make specific recommendations. In the Manchester area, give MV a
call (http://www.mv.com). Around Haverhill or Amesbury (MA), try USAi
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NH seems to have this thing against competition among cable providers.
It's negotiated on a town-by-town basis in NH; contact your local
public utilities office. Sometimes, the town will give a cableco
exclusive rights
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:34 -0400, Chip Marshall wrote:
On May 20, 2008, Dan Miller sent me the following:
Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be
decent, but now they are horrible.
What ISP is a good alternative to Comcast?
This seem to be a recurring
Jarod Wilson writes:
I'm rather fond of my Verizon FiOS here in Tyngsboro, MA. No PPoE, PPoE,
etc., just straight up fiber to the optical network terminal on the
outside of the box, ethernet from there to my switch, off which I hang
stuff, utilizing the 5 static IP addresses I've got. $99/mo,
The world of telecom regulation is a maze of twisty passages, all
different. Regulation -- the way it's been done in this country --
hasn't really worked very well so far. Of course, neither has
deregulation. Maybe it's because we always seem to be doing both at
once. :-/
Bell had a gov
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be
decent, but now they are horrible.
Whats driving me away:
Internet: Blocking port 25. Yes, I could illegally hack my modem, but
its not worth it. There
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 23:22 -0400, Star wrote:
I also live in Southern Nashua, and did have Verizon FiOS until about
a month ago... kept having problems trying to pay my bill, and
finally got fed up with having to be transfered a bunch of times
'cause the phone company didn't know that they
Last week, on Thr 15 May 2008, the MerriLUG group met at Martha's
Exchange in Nashua. We were privileged to have Christoph Doerbeck
presenting on Linux DAW. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 people
were there. You can find the slides from the presentation on the
GNHLUG web site:
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