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HiVolt
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Joined:
2000-12-28
(13th year!)
email:
Not public.
Membership:
Premium
Kudos:
19
Editor of these FAQs:
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Inside Wiring FAQ
Location:
Toronto, ON
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TekSavvy DSL
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TekSavvy Cable
Posts:
51732
Last seen:
2013-10-06 00:18:26
Visits:
6891
Profile
interests
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Computers, Cars, Mountain Bikes, Digital Photography, Movies
my age
:
34
my computer
:
Desktop: i7-3770k @ 4.5ghz, Asus Maximus V Formula Mobo, 32GB DDR3-1600 Ram, Samsung 840Pro 256GB SSD, EVGA GTX680 Superclocked, 1TB Seagate 7200rpm, 2x Seagate 2TB Green Samsung 18X SATA DVD-RW, SB X-Fi Titanium PCI-E, Enermax Galaxy 850W PSU, CoolerMaster Stacker Chassis, Corsair H80i Water Cooling, Logitech MX5500 K/M, Dell 30" LCD Monitor, Behringer MS40 Speakers, APC SmartUPS 1500, Windows 7 Professional x64.
Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad X220, i7-2620M, 12.5" IPS Anti-Glare, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, Intel WiFi, BT 3.0
HTPC: Apple Mac Mini, Intel Core2Duo 2.26ghz, 4GB DDR3-1066, 160GB HD, 8X SuperDrive, Airport Extreme & Bluetooth hooked up to a Sony 42" HDTV via DVI, OS X Snow Leopard & Plex Media Center.
Network Attached Storage:
QNAP TS-419P II, 4x2TB WD Green RAID5
QNAP TS-869 Pro, 8x3TB WD Red RAID5
favourite classic film
:
Scarface
My day job
:
I'm a Digital PrePress Technician & System Admin at a Web Offset printing shop in downtown Toronto.
I work in the industry
:
Printing & Publishing
Inspirational Text
:
If its not Scottish, its CRAP!
On TV I'm watching..
:
Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Top Gear, NHL in the winter, MLB in the summer
My first name
:
Martin
My mobile phone
:
Apple iPhone 5 64GB (Jailbroken)
I like to listen to
:
Pretty much everything but Rap/HipHop & Country.
Photography Equipment
:
Canon EOS-50D 15mp
Canon EF-S 18-200mm
Canon EF 75-300mm III USM
Sigma 10-20mm EX HSM
Sigma 150-500mm OS HSM
Canon SpeedLite 430EX
Sandisk Extreme III 16GB CF
Profile
My home connection
Setup
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DSL
Siemens SpeedStream 6520 ADSL2+ modem
Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato/MLPPP firmware to circumvent Bell Canada traffic shaping.
Cable
Motorola SB6120 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem
NetGear WNR3500L Router running TomatoUSB firmware
LAN
Dell PowerConnect 2708 8-port Gig-E switch
Speed down/up
:
8/0.8mbit DSL and 24/1mbit Cable
ISP
:
TekSavvy
ISP charge/month
:
$40 DSL, $48 Cable
Kudos Received
Was a great help with my new hard drive decision, even provided links to sites to help.
Logan Five
,
82 days
For spending lot of time on investigation VDSL problem related to Bell's equipment and providing us with very useful information.
s_tux_g
,
110 days
Congrats on 50k and thanks for all the informative posts. :).
polkaroo
,
164 days
Thank you for your continuous participation in the TekSavvy forum. :) - KUDOS.
TSI Andre
,
179 days
thanks for the quick and helpful response.
hopetindall
,
184 days
Thanks for the fantastic VDSL modem information you shared on the forums!.
vdsl_n00b
,
193 days
the guy knows everything.
jono181
,
198 days
HiVolt is the hero of DSLreports, Canadian forums :^).
Cloneman
,
269 days
+1 Yippie Ki ai Ay U gits a kudo's just 'coz I R feeling like a Kudoka :p Cheerz.
TwiztedZero
,
1.3 years
Fast & valid response.
Thanh
,
1.5 years
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