Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC | reply to Cubytus
Re: Most reliable and speedy variety of WRT54G for Toomato/MLPPP
The CRTC approved Videotron's $50 overage fee. It looks like nobody protested it when it was proposed, either. That might explain why the CRTC just went ahead and granted the request to raise it. |
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
 ·Colbanet
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Purolator is very flexible and reliable, in my experience, at redirecting packages to where you need them to be.
I've also occasionally (but not always) been called by the Purolator driver asking to be let into my apartment when my buzzer didn't produce results (I was at the office, not at home). I appreciated that, even if it didn't help. |
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Cubytus
join:2007-08-24
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·Radioactif
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Fine! Now I know Radioactif didn't lied!
But, to protest against such a request, one must first be aware of the proposal.
Here, I must join voices with globus999 who stated that ISPs, on the whole, didn't take any action to mobilize their customers toward the issue.
As for Purolator, I will check if it's available with NCIX, but don't think so. The main attraction toward UPS service was the advertised 3-days service, which is obviously not the case here. Bad capabilities, ineffective customer service. In fact, the Lachine main storage is always full of disgruntled customers. |
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HKPolice
join:2002-08-09
Scarborough, ON
·Look Communications
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Re: best router
I've done a lot of research on linksys hardware and the wiki page says it all: »wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware···edcffe0d
There are many different models of CPUs being used, and the fastest compatible with Tomato MLPPP currently is the 264Mhz BCM4704 in the WRTSL54GS or Asus WL-500G Premium. It can be overclocked to 300Mhz easily too.
There IS a difference between the various versions of routers even if they're all at 200Mhz because the CPUs they use are different models. The oldest is the BCM4710 which came clocked at 125Mhz, then the BCM4712 @ 200Mhz which is by far the most popular cpu. Then came the BCM5352 @ 200Mhz which should be faster than the 4712 clock for clock. There's also the BCM5354 @ 240Mhz but it's not officially supported by MLPPP Tomato because it requires the "ND" version.
I wish Tomato's developer would release a firmware capable of running the newer Wifi-N routers because they have a much faster cpu in them: the BCM4705 which has double the L1 cache + 4 or 5 times the prefetcher cache of the BCM4704. |
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Cubytus
join:2007-08-24
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| Thx for the answer, although I already bought the WRT54GL and loaded it with Tomato/MLPPP 
The two other alternatives are a bit expensive, tough, and I wouldn't be able to take advantage of their advanced features, since I have no spare hard drive that can be used (Or I have to dismantle my computer!), and Tomato still doesn't support USB on it.
There exist the WL-500W, which is 802.11n draft compliant and has the same set of features as the 500g Premium, but is not supported by Tomato. Don't know why the developpers are lagging; I may have bought it as a current-generation router.
Isn't the WRT54GL overlockable also?
So far Tomato runs fine, available memory seems pretty low to me at about 13%, and load is presently very light (no WLAN, 2 PCs online but idle, very slow P2P (due to badly behaving DMZ) |
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Cubytus
join:2007-08-24
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Re: Most reliable and speedy variety of WRT54G for Toomato/MLPPP
Still in the topic about switching ISPs...
I just learned that Witopia.net offered a dirt cheap ($40/year) service to provide an OpenVPN service able to encrypt all your trafic to an unrestricted computer.
Well I know that most of the time a VPN service can seriously affect performance, but they provide a 30-day money back guarante if we're not satisfied. Seems solid to me.
Has anyone tried it? |
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