http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/ Rock River Linux Users Group Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:48 GMT Rand Thacker http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2875 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2875 If there is a list, I'd like to sign up for it now :) ... -- "I am the most humble person in the world!" Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:51:32 GMT Nick Hughart http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2874 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2874 I thought Rockford was all AT&T? Is there a lot of Verizon in Rockford? Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:32:44 GMT Egyas http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2873 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2873 Don't know about the Belvidere area, but Rockford is scheduled to get FiOS.  Just not anytime soon.  It is one of the MAJOR corporate pushes here at Verizon. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:32:01 GMT Egyas http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2872 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2872 You know, I have called Comcast TWICE in the past month to inquire about business plans.  I work from home, and I also run a web server, FTP server, and Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:54:15 GMT Tim Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2871 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2871 I get a 4 Mbps download speed and 384Kbps for $45 a month. There isn't much down time and mainly in the middle of the night. They try to give everybody an Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:43:38 GMT Nick Hughart http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2870 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2870 I see they have a tower in Capron. Would be interesting to see them continue to grow this way, but from what I've heard about other wireless providers I'd be Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:37:56 GMT Tim Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2869 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2869 Also, I don't know about in Rockford, but depending where you live in Boone county there are wireless internet providers. I know of three different providers. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:10:48 GMT Nick Hughart http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2868 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2868 For those of us who live in or around Belvidere and have Verizon, I'd say there is a better chance of AT&T moving in then us getting FiOS. And from what I hear Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:20:48 GMT Rand Thacker http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2867 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2867 FiOS, please, and can I get fries with that. ... -- "I am the most humble person in the world!" Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:28:25 GMT Dan Oglesby http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2866 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2866 I have always been a big fan of ISPs selling only guaranteed data rate services, vs the burst/oversell stuff you see from people like cable, DSL, and wireless Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:16:15 GMT sam williams http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2865 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2865 I found another article that goes into a little more detail about their intent. if you are warned twice within a 6 month period for hitting the limit you Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:53:31 GMT Nick Hughart http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2864 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2864 And everyone keeps trying to tell me how much they love Comcast, I think they need to get their head examined. 250GB is quite a bit of traffic though, I know Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:48:22 GMT Rand Thacker http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2863 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2863 Well, I used to love them, now I hate them. I mean consider everything Web 2.0 apps that ping almost constantly, my kids gaming, my gaming, I VPN and RDP to Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:35:56 GMT sam williams http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2862 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2862 Well Rockford and the surrounding areas it looks like our beloved Comcast is about to put into place a monthly download limit of 250 Gbytes. Many would ask Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:34:02 GMT sam williams http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2861 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rrlug/message/2861 Well I passed that tidbit along being a complete java noob. From what I gathered though, and I could be wrong, this will allow the jvm to handle locking