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Comment Re: ISP: Mine isn't so bad (Score 1) 113

No, I'm in DFW. Houston I think is the 4th largest city. But DFW is the 4th largest metropolitan statistical area. Houston/Woodlands/Sugarland area is 5th.

There are some places around that can get symmetrical fiber, but my area of Arlington isn't one of them.

Supposedly the city signed a deal to roll out fiber to the whole city, but it's been something like 3 years since the "groundbreaking" and I haven't heard a peep of an update from the city, or the company they are working with to do the rollout.

Best I can get is Spectrum 1Gb down/40Mb up for $95. The download is fine but the slow upload speeds are driving me nuts, and of course the price is pretty bad considering what other areas can get for cheaper.

Hell, my friend has a cabin in Arkansas, about 45min north of Hot Springs. Absolutely the middle of nowhere. It's about a 30 min drive to the nearest gas station. But he can get symmetrical gig fiber for quite a bit less than what I'm paying.

Comment Re:Complete Bulls*** (Score 1) 191

Some of the most useful drivers in CUPS are "Generic PCL Laser Printer" and "Generic PostScriptPrinter". The Canon drivers for my ImageClass MF8580Cdw offer some extra features, but both of those drivers work with it and many other printers if you're just concerned with printing. It will also work over lpd, HP's hpjis or whatever, HTTP, or HTTPS. I used to have (and probably still do in a drawer) a standalone network print server to hook up to non-network-native printers. For that I could use PCL or PostScript generic drivers depending on the printer, too. Or I could actually FTP a text, PS, EPS, PCL, or IIRC PDF file directly to the print server.

Comment Re:Usable? (Score 1) 42

Comment Re:Out of curiosity. (Score 1) 250

You'd really just need your gateway router to do NAT for you. We could reserve a /8 for mapping active v6 connections into your v4 network. The internal v4 network doesn't need to know who it's actually talking to unless you've got a server that cares about accurate logs. You can log the mappings of the NAT from the router. If you do care at the server who's accessing it, run v6.

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