[MLUG] Switching from Bell

[a gardner]

Cool, thanks for the info.
I figured that there would be some work around needed, seeing as how bell
owns all the lines...

I'll have to give bell back their 2wire router, so buying a new one was
already on my list.

and if I'm buying, its gotta run linux :)

As a side note, I've got the Dell inspiron 1525, which comes preloaded with
ubuntu.

and it still has myriad hardware issues.

bah!

Anyone ever gotten a laptop where everything works the year you bought it?

My mom had a t30 thinkpad and its almost perfect...
and my hpdv2120ca (worst lappy ever) finally works after two years (wout
ndiswrapper)... it was a broadcom thing.

currently on my inspiron, if you connect to an wireless-n it hangs. and
lspci dosnt even show the ethernet card, wtf is that?

Dell has their own patched kernals, which is already stupid, but that they
dont work...
really...

somthing better on the horizon i hope (i could never afford one of those
linuxcertified laptops, why are they so dear?)

k done ranting.. :)









On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Dave Vasilevsky <djvasi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Leif Thande <leif.thande at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > But still Teksavvy has a way better service than Sympatico and they
> > are against the throttling so they might get it removed in the future
> > (even if they lost before the CRTC).
>
> Moreover, both Teksavvy and Acanac support methods to circumvent
> Bell's throttling.
>
> Teksavvy allows Multilink PPP (MLPPP), which is usually used to bond
> two lines together. You can, however, use MLPPP on a single line,
> which still evades the packet-inspection and throttling. The downside
> is that most routers don't support MLPPP, so you'll probably need to
> buy a WRT54GL and flash it with open-source firmware (or add a few
> NICs to a Linux box, and set it up as a router). Also, it is
> conceivable that Bell will eventually find a way to throttle MLPPP.
> Link: http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=594003
>
> Acanac provides each customer who asks with a minimal VPS, which they
> insist on calling an "Online PC". Data from the VPS to the net is not
> throttled, so you can use SSH proxying to get around the throttling.
> Its hard to imagine Bell finding a way to throttle this--the VPS is
> outside their control, and SSH is encrypted. I guess they could
> throttle all connections to Acanac, or all SSH tunnels, but that would
> be so blatant they might as well also redirect google.com to
> sympatico.ca. Link:
> http://community.acanac.com/Acanac/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5903
>
> Apologies that the links are Windows-centric, they're still the best
> explanations out there. I assume most people here can figure out the
> Linux equivalents :-)
>
> Dave
> _______________________________________________
> mlug mailing list
> mlug at listserv.mlug.ca
> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /pipermail/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca/attachments/20081230/c7d4d912/attachment.htm