Huh. That might help Jenny. But the thing is, they don't seem to have anything else actually set up properly, and they aren't billing us until the modem arrives, so who knows if we can actually dial in. We can't set up our account until the modem gets here so I doubt it.
This connection is better than dialup anyway. Faster certainly. It's just that Windows XP doesn't know how to handle wireless connections worth shit. If there's the slightest delay in a request it tries to pull up my old VPN connection to IU instead of waiting on the wireless. Sometimes, gasp, at the edge of a wireless network's range, packets drop! Oh no!
Idiots. They get resent. Honestly.
Basically it's a fast, but very narrow pipe. You can load one webpage at a time at broadband speed, but too much stuff at a time and the router at the other end gets flustered making sure everything gets where it's going across the parking lot of doom.
We're probably going to go with Comcast service now, unless SBC gets the modem here in a couple of days. This has been... well, outrageous really.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:51 am (UTC)This connection is better than dialup anyway. Faster certainly. It's just that Windows XP doesn't know how to handle wireless connections worth shit. If there's the slightest delay in a request it tries to pull up my old VPN connection to IU instead of waiting on the wireless. Sometimes, gasp, at the edge of a wireless network's range, packets drop! Oh no!
Idiots. They get resent. Honestly.
Basically it's a fast, but very narrow pipe. You can load one webpage at a time at broadband speed, but too much stuff at a time and the router at the other end gets flustered making sure everything gets where it's going across the parking lot of doom.
We're probably going to go with Comcast service now, unless SBC gets the modem here in a couple of days. This has been... well, outrageous really.