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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Down here in Apple Valley, we've only got maybe 1-1.5 inches in the past 24 hours. Consider yourself lucky this time around. It was slicker than goose grease this morning. It did warm during the day and the roads were much nicer when I came home. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Down here in Apple Valley, we've only got maybe 1-1.5 inches in the past 24 hours. That's about to change for you. Looks like your on the edge of the big dump.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Fixed my last dilemma. Broke down and bought a wireless USB stick. Works pretty slick. Tried to use 2 wireless routers, one in bridge mode, but didn't pan out. Should be set now.
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hunterkasy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 300 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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just wanted to stop in and say hi, it has been a while, my crunching has slowed down a bit since my dual core went down for good, it was 7 years old, a good old friend.
my neighbours have really fast Internet, they have their Internet through charter, on speedtest.net my neighbours Internet average was 13mb down and 1.3mb up, I can download a 667mb torrent in about 6 minutes the speed average around 1.35 mb (their wireless router is un-secured) my Internet is through arvig, speedtest.net gives me a average of 1.35mb down and .35mb up when downloading the speed stays at 235kb I am looking at switching to charter but I have to look into the cost more |
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
Down here in Apple Valley, we've only got maybe 1-1.5 inches in the past 24 hours. That's about to change for you. Looks like your on the edge of the big dump. Again, looks like we're missing the worst of it hear, it's mostly farther south. Only about 2 more inches. I like snow a lot, I wish we were getting more! AWD and snow tires make it fun!
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
just wanted to stop in and say hi, it has been a while, my crunching has slowed down a bit since my dual core went down for good, it was 7 years old, a good old friend. my neighbours have really fast Internet, they have their Internet through charter, on speedtest.net my neighbours Internet average was 13mb down and 1.3mb up, I can download a 667mb torrent in about 6 minutes the speed average around 1.35 mb (their wireless router is un-secured) my Internet is through arvig, speedtest.net gives me a average of 1.35mb down and .35mb up when downloading the speed stays at 235kb I am looking at switching to charter but I have to look into the cost more I have probably the same thing from Charter. It's advertised at 16mb/2mb I think and I rarely see it slow down. The have a "burst" thing too where you will see over 20mb for short periods. And no bandwidth caps! :D
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Primary Server: Intel Q9550 @ 3.0ghz, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4830 Backup Server/Gaming: Intel Q9550 @ 3.4ghz, 8GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4870 My ICF Home Build: http://icfbuild.blogspot.com/ |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7701 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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just wanted to stop in and say hi, it has been a while, my crunching has slowed down a bit since my dual core went down for good, it was 7 years old, a good old friend. my neighbours have really fast Internet, they have their Internet through charter, on speedtest.net my neighbours Internet average was 13mb down and 1.3mb up, I can download a 667mb torrent in about 6 minutes the speed average around 1.35 mb (their wireless router is un-secured) my Internet is through arvig, speedtest.net gives me a average of 1.35mb down and .35mb up when downloading the speed stays at 235kb I am looking at switching to charter but I have to look into the cost more I have probably the same thing from Charter. It's advertised at 16mb/2mb I think and I rarely see it slow down. The have a "burst" thing too where you will see over 20mb for short periods. And no bandwidth caps! :D No bandwidth caps so far. I have heard (unverified) that if Charter believes you are a bandwidth hog you will be throttled back no matter what you are paying. Maybe they had just talked about doing that and never did. Beware if they get monopoly rights in your area. Anyway it is good to hear from you again hunterkasy. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Bearcat, I'll be thinking of you and wishing you well tomorrow!
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The new little laptop with the AMD fusion chip arrived yesterday. I haven't had much time to put into it yet but it looks good so far. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I'm going to wait until Ubuntu Natty comes out to make it dual boot, as Natty is supposed to have the right drivers for this chip right in the kernel.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Bearcat, I'll be thinking of you and wishing you well tomorrow! Thank you. Am ready to get this done. The wife will be bringing my iPad so will pop in quick to say hi afterwards. Congrats on the laptop. You'll have to update us on the performance. I've been following the new PSP, NGP, with it's quad core chip. Will be interesting to see how all these small chips coming out will work out. Seems the tablets are a big target. I'm waiting on HP to release there new WebOs tablet and Pre3. I see apple will put a dual core chip in the next iPhone. Getting amazing the power that goes in our little gadgets.
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