“The internet forecast this week is looking glum. Make sure you have your 3G phones handy since it’s a doozy! We’re looking at frequent outages across <Jenn Cutter’s residence> with sporadic bursts of frustrating connectivity. Gtalk will work nearly without fail but good luck trying not to time out on IRC or actually load a web page. These connectivity windows will occur at dial-up speeds, reminding us all of those scary days we actually used to play MMORPGs on such a connection and paid, equivalently, what we do these days for cable/dsl. Hahaha, memories. Now back to the studio for sports…”
Ugh. Still fighting with this. Anyone in the area have a weatherproof several hundred metre cable and a modem/router I can mooch off of? I only use around 90GB of traffic a month :)
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You use only 90 gigs a month…I can top that!
Well, Gtalk is (barely) better than nothing.
I’ve heard that you have better luck with 2 soup cans strung up on a string. I use Empathy on Ubuntu and no one I know uses Gtalk, just IRC or Jabber (XMPP). Mostly IRC, thats how I get any direct contact with the devs. I only know of one person on Gtalk…me. Maybe Gtalk is more popular with certain circles? At any rate, I prefer IRC.
Also use IRC for group conversations, but Gtalk is great.
I use it to talk to a lot of friends and colleagues, it archives the chat automatically to my Gmail account, you can transfer files and images smoothly.
I’d like to get all my friends on it so I wouldn’t have to have AIM open.
I used something like 350gb last month >.> I think I irritated Comcast. Still, you’re welcome to lay some CAT6 from my place to yours. I wonder if you’ll have to pay customs for all that data?
Just splice an OC-192 and run an optical fiber to your place. That should take care of that pesky speed issue. Should have enough bandwidth for all of your web sites and your connection from home.
And if thats still not enough you can splice an OC-768 fiber line . ツ
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