<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:48, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xcssa@xcssa.org">xcssa@xcssa.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As for the Linksys and DD-WRT, I know of no way to set an IP in the<br>
firmware image <SNIP><br>
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On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:08 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">wrote:<br>
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> Side note, has anyone had any luck flashing DD-WRT or similar to a<br>
> Linksys WRT54Gv6? I need to figure out a way to make the Linksys<br>
> accept a local 10.10.x.x IP, and with its default firmware it will<br>
> only do 192.168.1.x.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I cannot speak to 54Gv6 (I have v3, GSv1.1, GLv1), but all my WWRT54G's have DDWRT v23 use 10.135.x. Granted, I am not using them for DHCP, but I am positive that non-192.168 are supported.<br>
<br>RE: Speed<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5">> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:23 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San<br>
> Antonio <<a href="mailto:xcssa@xcssa.org">xcssa@xcssa.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> My friend has a 6mbps connection and he's probably getting around 5,<br>
>> although he's in a pseudo rural area so it's pretty good. I use<br>
>> standard AT&T DSL and have had amazingly few problems. The only major<br>
>> issues I've had is that their 2Wire DSL Routers suck. Avoid those or<br>
>> even buy one on your own and hook it up to a Linksys W54G (preferably<br>
>> with DD-WRT flashed onto it :) and call it done.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Agreed. I use M0n0walls at my locations, and then have actual WAP's rather than using ISP "wireless gateways"<br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5">>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 12:17 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio<br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> AT&T Elite DSL claims to get 6mbps. Is that true? Price seems<br>
>>> slightly cheaper than cable modem, but as usual I'll have to get the<br>
>>> second bill to be sure of that. It's close. One friend of mine<br>
>>> says<br>
>>> "DSL is slow" but 6mbps is fine for me now.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Non-turbo cable (what I have now) claims 7mbps and turbo cable<br>
>>> claims<br>
>>> to get 15mbps, but online reviewers are very critical of the claim<br>
>>> for Turbo.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I get 15M down/1M up on my non-good customer Turbo (I am told that those with "bundles" can get 15M/2M Turbo)<br> <br>I was going to go with "naked" ATT DSL, but uploads were maxed at 768, and I needed more than that for my job, so TWC was the only option, and this was before the "good customer/bundle Turbo with 2M up"<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5">
>>> I can also get Grande, they were out a couple of years ago setting<br>
>>> up my neighborhood. How is that? They claim 8mbps for $39.95 and<br>
>>> 12mbps for $49.95. I know the neighborhood was hooked up with fiber<br>
>>> but I don't know if they run fiber to each house. I might get the<br>
>>> 12mbps package if it actually delivers that, also gives twice the<br>
>>> upload speed (useful for media sharing stuff like Orb and VNC, I'm<br>
>>> not doing any hosting).</div></div></blockquote><div><br>You don't have to be a server to saturate upload speeds. I work with large files (ISO, VMWare Images, etc) and uploads with 512K take a really long time. Lately, I have also discovered the wonders of BitTorrent, and having that "extra" 512K up makes me less of a leach, and hence get better download speeds. I am also of the opinion that a 10:1 Down:Up ratio is silly. I am thinking that 4:1 or 5:1 on the outside is more realistic. Simple TCP protocol overhead required to drive the max download saturates the upload. So if I am in the middle of an un-governed upload, my download speeds drop to <3M, since the ACKs and other control traffic gets congested at the firewall (M0n0Wall).<br>
</div></div><br>I have also heard good things about Grande, despite the fact that I cannot use them either ;)<br><br>John Pappas<br>