Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Well, this is interesting....The best I was getting after the latest Cox speed upgrade was:But, with Wondershaper(QoS) turned off, I'm now getting speeds like these:It might be acceptable to stay with my current set up, rather tha… more »

I had been thinking of getting one of these units for a while, though wondering if I could use just as an AP.Meanwhile, Cox has been improving its speed...but I wasn't seeing the improvement. Could see the upstream improvement, but not so much with… more »

Today, I finally pulled the trigger again....and canceled my home phone service. But, I'm keeping DSL.Originally, when I first moved to Manhattan, KS there were issues on whether or not I could get a local number from a VoIP provider. And, I was in… more »

I rated this 4 stars.:rs::rs::rs::rs::ys:I wonder if there'll be more....Watching this stream was hard for some reason....I first started watching it on my Cox HSI connected TiVo HD, I saw that it was an HD stream...so I thought I made th… more »

Yeah, NetFlix asked me about this. :cool:I was looking around on NetFlix website trying to figure out how to report video problems of instant viewed material. But, couldn't find anything.At one point during the play back the video broke up and w… more »

Last night I experienced another Kansas Weather Event. Starting to wonder if I had known about these things, would I have called Manhattan, Kansas home?Last night it was rain, and lots of it. I may as well have been a solid water coming down everyw… more »

I rated this 3 stars.:rs::rs::rs::ys::ys:At first I was gonna watching it on my DSL connected TiVo HD, but saw that it was trying to stream in HD quality....but dropped down to not. So, I switched to my Cox HSI connected TiVo HD where I could ge… more »

Many months ago, I was looking at the slow WDS bridge from my main desktop to the rest of the network. The rest of my network which includes both of my Internet gateways, as well as numerous multimedia devices (include my TiVo HD and AppleTV)...so I wan… more »

I rated this 4 stars.:rs::rs::rs::rs::ys:Used the Netflix Instant on my TiVo HD (connected to Cox HSI Preferred). Initially the quality was 9 bars, but it degraded quickly to only 6 bars.Maybe I should've used the TiVo HD on my DSL connectio… more »

I was bored and playing around with my AppleTV, I'm way behind on my video podcast viewing...but there's only so much I can take in at once.So, I was playing around with other parts of it, and looked at Trailers. Finally saw the Star Trek trailer.… more »

I rated this 3 stars. :rs::rs::rs::ys::ys: This is the first show I've watched using NetFlix Instant, it was okay. The lack of subtitles was kind of annoying, and it was difficult to reverse. There was only one spot where the picture broke up.… more »

It is day two of the latest DSL upgrade. No change in sync rate, since its already reached the upgraded rate. But, DSLreports spectrum analysis gives somewhat more room on the downstream. Guess that'll ensure a stable connection. Downstream Maxra… more »