Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Emit Well Over 100,000,000,000 SPAM Per Day
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, bbgruff
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wrote
on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:43:31 +0100
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> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
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>> [+] I pay $40 per month for a 1.5Mb/s ISDN connection. There are
>> cheaper plans, I'm sure.
>
> You really meant to type that?
>
> Curious:-)
>
It's an Earthlink plan, autobilled. I've not looked into
the details lately. They also supply phone service, as
well as a small NAT router and some lowpass filters that
I get to stick on every phone in the house -- unless I
really want to hear loud white noise.
I probably should have said DSL instead of ISDN.
The bandwidth I tend to get is 150 kB/s; I assume 1.5 Mb/s.
This is adequate for light-duty gaming; my pings tend
to run 200-250 milliseconds which may be in part because
I have *another* router (the one Earthlink gives me has
all of two jacks and one of them is for the phone line)
in the network path.
I've not seen a Wi-Fi hotspot near me, though in theory
I could receive it using my laptop. Certainly I can see
hotspots readily enough, and even route through one at work
(it's a college library AFAICT so I don't really want to
consume all of their bandwidth. ;-) )
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