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Archived Do Helium-Filled Hard Drives Perform Better Than Air-Filled Drives? (backblaze.com)
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[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is going to sound so arrogant...
LOL Please read this with the best reading possible?
Umm... I actually paid FairPoint to get DSL. Except, I covered the purchase price of a new DSLAM and the new copper to my road and to my home. I had to get 1/2 the neighbors to agree to sign up (all of them but one did), and I had to pay those costs. They covered the installation cost for the DSLAM and the new line.
Why DSL? Because fiber can't be bent beyond 30 degrees and copper is regulated by the PUC - meaning that I can actually use any service provider I want in the State of Maine. (You may have similar protections where you live.) Fiber has no such protection and cable has even less. I got mad at FairPoint once and switched to GWI - and they had to provision the service at cost to GWI, it's the law.
So, I have DSL and a business-class connection. They actually still charge me the same amount as they do for the home service, but they keep upgrading my speed. I get 15 down and the only crappy part is that I get 1.25 up - which makes uploading video a bitch. I have two distinct line and they both get adequate throughput.
And, yes, I realize most folks can't just pay their TelCo to put in DSL. I know, it makes me sound a bit snobby - but I only had satellite as point-to-point wireless was very, very sketchy. So, something had to be done and I bit the bullet and had the work done.
[–] lord_nougat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Oh man, that reminds me of the time I got bonded ISDN to a house just because. That was kind of a long time ago. Then we moved, and I got a T1 line because it made sense as a business expense.
But here, the stupid laws protect businesses and not consumers. They think that since we have a 'choice' of DSL or SUPER SHITTY cable, that's not a monopoly. Idunno; fuck Los Angeles right in the pussy. Oh well... at least our property values keep going up insanely, so I figure on holding on to the place until I can walk away with a cool million in cash. Hopefully the dollar is still worth something by that point...
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Pretty much all my land works for me. My trees are harvested, my blueberries are harvested, and I'm officially signing papers for the farm on the 14th.
I have a place in FL that doesn't make me any money and I have a place in Boston that is rented out.
I tried to live with satellite. I even tried going back to dialup. I couldn't. I was in a test market area for cable Internet in like 1998 or 1999. I haven't been able to be content with narrowband since.