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Greetings from the Pacific Northwet. After our recent Snow-pocalypse, we also suffered a run of flooding. Amazingly enough, it wasn't directly due to the 13+ inches of snow I had at my house, it was a combination of the snow and the monumental
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WARNING: Rambling and ranting ahead. Read at the risk of losing time you could be spending doing other things! As I noted in my last post, I was to be migrating to FiOS TV on 21-November. Well, first let me say that every person I've talked to on the
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Thanks to the intrepid reader, TJ, who notified me that NHL Center Ice was now available on FiOS TV . After 14 years of service, I will bid a adieu next Friday to DirecTV. For those of you wondering why I've been touting FiOS, it's currently
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Some of you may remember much earlier this year I had upgraded my FiOS package to 15/15Mbps. Well some time between then (February) and a few weeks ago (late October), I discovered that the price for my 15/15Mbps package was the same as the newly
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It's actually the 15Mbps / 15Mbps package, but I can't find any test servers that will actually push the 15Mbps up limit, so it may not be a "pure" 15Mbps up, but man is it close. Next question is "why"? It does make it easier to work from home and also
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Yes, I'm alive, just have been very busy lately. I just had to share this because I was joking with a friend of mine not long ago about all the iTunes updates after the iPhone was released. (Aside: Yes, I own an iPod. No they do not fire us for using
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A little "before" action And now the AFTERS! It's funny to see the differences in tests though Speakeasy's test gives me; Download Speed: 15456 kbps (1932 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1596 kbps (199.5 KB/sec transfer rate) SpeedTest.Net gives me;
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A scant 7 days (and 8ish hours) from now I will hopefully be tripping the fiber light fantastic. I've been dying to get my hands on FiOS for a long while. More so after my wife had her business cable line installed at the house (she's a virtual worker
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