Spent the last few hours getting this to work on my LAN.

Now I can fill up those 250gb and 300gb drives :-)

Jim is a member of my politics forum, and is also a song writer.

His latest song Save the Planet can be found on Jim Coyler’s web site. His plans are to distribute the album at Hard Rock Cafe. Good luck Jim!

Here are the lyrics to “Save the Planet” mp3 (see link above).

SAVE THE PLANET

We’re floating on a grain of sand in the vastness of space
If future generations are going to inherit this place
We’ve got to Save The Planet
Do something while there’s still time
Save The Planet
This earth is yours and mine

The tropical rainforest is disappearing more everyday
We’ll never replace it, we’d better not burn it away
Save The Planet
The wonders of nature are free
Save The Planet
Have you ever planted a tree?

If the skies are blue
And the oceans too
Isn’t this a better home for me and you?
If the air is clean
And the land is green
Wouldn’t you like to be part of this lovely scene?

I’m thinking of the animals that once roamed the African plain
Their numbers have dwindled, pretty soon none will remain
Save The Planet
Do something while there’s still time
Save The Planet
This earth is yours and mine
Save The Planet
The wonders of nature are free
Save The Planet
Have you ever planted a tree?

Save The Planet
Save The Planet
Save The Planet
Save The Planet

c2005 Jim Colyer ASCAP
Jim Colyer

I live in Los Gatos, CA.

Well holy crapcast batman!!! at least it ain’t just me. I even went out and bought a new $80 linksys modem because the friggin’ tech support lackies claim there was nothing wrong.

here’s my scenario. On wedneday evening (6/15/05) I started having really bad connection, it was like dialup. I called tech “no outage reported in your area”. Those f-ing d–chbags think cycling the modem will cure everything. Next time I’m telling them “Look i’ve talked with you 15 times in the last 3 days. Don’t you think I’ve tried that already?”

Anyway, back on point. Thursday was dialup type speed too, although thursday morning at around 3am I got them to admit there was an “OS Upgrade” they were performing in my area.

Thursday evening, dialup type speeds. Got a tech to “ping” me, and said there was 7% packet loss, and he’ll send a guy out. “No outage reported”. I checked online, and there WAS an outage reported: http://tinyurl.com/7pqph

Friday it didn’t work at all (bought a new modem, thought maybe it was me). They claimed yet again “no outage reported”, after seeing these posts, I know they are full of sh*t. You know, I don’t mind an outage once in awhile, but when they don’t sync up their tech support phones guys and the network engineers on this, it really chaps my hide. One time I called friday (i called 4 times already today) I got an automated “outage alert” in my area. “Press 1 to get an autmoated callback when the outage is fixed”. It’s been 15 hours, and I still haven’t gotten that call - called two more times. One guy claimed “no outage reported” and the other intiially said none, then 10 minutes later after cycling the modem said “oh wait. there is a dhcp sync up issue in your area”. WTF don’t you just look a little closer before we go through this bs all over again? (this is all going on my blog at http://www.chovy.com) I’m PO’d at Comcast lately.

PS - I run Linux as well as XP, and use “mtr google.com” to check my packet loss (typically at around 50%, which explains the slowness), as well as the tests here at dslreports. Tonight I’m getting 350kbps down and 357kbps up.

Your download speed : 358876 bps, or 350 kbps.
A 43.8 KB/sec transfer rate. <-- this is very slow, usuaally get around 500KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 359732 bps, or 351 kbps.