[MLUG] Switching from Bell

[Jean-Francois Theroux]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:05 PM, a gardner <ariccanfly at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Anyone ever gotten a laptop where everything works the year you bought it?


Yup just did. My new AA1 is running Lenny. Every device works. Even the
webcam.


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> My mom had a t30 thinkpad and its almost perfect...
> and my hpdv2120ca (worst lappy ever) finally works after two years (wout
> ndiswrapper)... it was a broadcom thing.
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> currently on my inspiron, if you connect to an wireless-n it hangs. and
> lspci dosnt even show the ethernet card, wtf is that?
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> Dell has their own patched kernals, which is already stupid, but that they
> dont work...
> really...
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> somthing better on the horizon i hope (i could never afford one of those
> linuxcertified laptops, why are they so dear?)
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> k done ranting.. :)
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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Dave Vasilevsky <djvasi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Leif Thande <leif.thande at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > But still Teksavvy has a way better service than Sympatico and they
>> > are against the throttling so they might get it removed in the future
>> > (even if they lost before the CRTC).
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>> Moreover, both Teksavvy and Acanac support methods to circumvent
>> Bell's throttling.
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>> Teksavvy allows Multilink PPP (MLPPP), which is usually used to bond
>> two lines together. You can, however, use MLPPP on a single line,
>> which still evades the packet-inspection and throttling. The downside
>> is that most routers don't support MLPPP, so you'll probably need to
>> buy a WRT54GL and flash it with open-source firmware (or add a few
>> NICs to a Linux box, and set it up as a router). Also, it is
>> conceivable that Bell will eventually find a way to throttle MLPPP.
>> Link: http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=594003
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>> Acanac provides each customer who asks with a minimal VPS, which they
>> insist on calling an "Online PC". Data from the VPS to the net is not
>> throttled, so you can use SSH proxying to get around the throttling.
>> Its hard to imagine Bell finding a way to throttle this--the VPS is
>> outside their control, and SSH is encrypted. I guess they could
>> throttle all connections to Acanac, or all SSH tunnels, but that would
>> be so blatant they might as well also redirect google.com to
>> sympatico.ca. Link:
>> http://community.acanac.com/Acanac/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5903
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>> Apologies that the links are Windows-centric, they're still the best
>> explanations out there. I assume most people here can figure out the
>> Linux equivalents :-)
>>
>> Dave
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Jean-François Théroux
Linux/network security consultant
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