From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 680AF1382C5 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6F58E095D; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-out-auth2.hosts.co.uk (mail-out-auth2.hosts.co.uk [212.84.127.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 876ABE093D for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-149-69-253.range86-149.btcentralplus.com ([86.149.69.253] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kl75r-0002aN-Da for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:09:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: antlists Message-ID: <8320c0f9-eef2-6198-478c-828b7b1d4eeb@youngman.org.uk> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:09:36 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 81cc9cda-5596-4097-aa8b-00a070032e45 X-Archives-Hash: 44af6079f05ec1a51a0a580aec40cab2 On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: > Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet > service.  It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is > over 100 times faster than my current DSL.  It only costs $4.00 a month > more than what I'm paying now.  Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec. > Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed.  Another good thing, same > speed BOTH ways.  I can upload videos just as fast as I can download > one. Yeppie!! > > My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires > me to plug in a ethernet cable.  In other words, OS doesn't matter.  I > suspect it does but we will see. We went to fibre recently. They put a new box on the wall which takes an RJ-45 instead of the previous situation where ADSL took an RJ-11. All the blurb says "works with BT Hub 6", which we already had, so I didn't bother getting a new router (you had to pay for the "latest and greatest" Hub 7). When the guy installed it - "where's you new router, it won't work with this one". No apparently you can't just plug it into any old network port, the router needs a dedicated WAN link and the Hub 6 came in two versions, one with an ADSL modem and one with a fibre uplink. So it sounds like you need to swap your ADSL router for a cable router or whatever it is, but apart from that you'll be fine. (And then some sales guy working on behalf of BT knocked on the door, was surprised to find we were already BT customers, and rigged up some deal that (a) threw in a Hub-7 free, (b) changed our calling plan to remove the one-hour limit and add free calls to mobiles, and (c) knocked about £2 off our monthly bill!!!) Cheers, Wol