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Hugh R 07-31-2004 05:43 PM

Testing the Speed of my new Internet Connection
 
Nothing here, just checking out my new Comcast cable modem connection for uploading a picture of my backyard last summer.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1091324590.jpg

id10t 07-31-2004 06:18 PM

Scary.

If you want a real speed test, you can have one done at www.dslreports.com

Moses 07-31-2004 08:22 PM

Or try www.2wire.com

Hugh R 07-31-2004 08:50 PM

Hey

Thanks. I'm not real impressed with the wireless antenna for one computer. The Linksys ethernet card for the laptop is great, the D-Link antenna for the main computer is so, so. I may just go with a ethernet cable for that one. Those tests are very cool.

I've been on a coal-fired dial up for years, and because I live on a private street, I've been trying for years to get high speed cable or DSL, and on Friday, we finally got it. Its amazing, to open up threads on pelican with pics used to take 10-20 minutes, now it takes seconds, or less.

Hugh R 07-31-2004 09:01 PM

testing
 
Testing to make sure my new email will work with pelican. Please disregard.

84porsche 08-01-2004 07:50 AM

It looks like it is burning fast.

Hugh R 08-01-2004 09:54 AM

84

Yeah, it did burn fast. It burned about 16 of my 18 acres in less than an hour. Got rid of a lot of brush though.

84porsche 08-01-2004 11:21 AM

At least it didn't get your home. Was your area undeveloped land or did you have something growing on it? With all the technology we have they still seem so difficult to put out. Somehow other people say fires are part of nature and they restore the land and they allow for new growth. I haven't entirely understood that statement yet.

Hugh R 08-01-2004 12:09 PM

Fires clear out the dead and diseased plants and trees. The ash is a fertilizer for the forest. It allows new growth to get sunlight were before the fire the undergrowth was shaded out. Since my house was OK, the fire was one of the best things that could happen to my property. Now I have grasses which will in decades be shaded out and out competed by more brush, which burns extremely hot. Since the brush is gone close to the house, I go out each Spring and kill the emerging brush with Roundup that is growing within about 200 feet of the house, as a fire break. My property, according to the Fire Department, hadn't burned in over 50 years, so it was time.


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