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 »

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 »

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 »

Back when I first moved here, I wanted to get DSL.... they offered 3 tiers (that I knew of...) 1.5/384, 3.0/512, 6.0/768. Of course, I wanted the top one. But, they said for my area they could only offer me the lowest. But, it was better than dialup… more »

Of course, I'm talking about my Ubuntu server (well, maybe not obvious....except that I'm not known for doing upgrades). I had debated waiting for Hardy Heron's release before building this Linux server. Except that I had bought the box back in Decem… more »

I survived....almost 7 hours without power. It got really cold. I was worried I'd have to sleep without heat....but I did find my old sleeping bag. Unfortunately, I had trouble after power came back. My Windows desktop lost its mind....guess I ne… more »

Looks like I experienced a nearly 24 hour outage of my Cox HSI service.... :## Wonder if my TV recordings for the period were affected....guess I'll find out when I get home from my business trip on Saturday..... :**: more »