Sean's Technological Journeys

Well, according to news reports, my area (the mid-atlantic region) is weathering a catastrophic winter event (a.k.a. a blizzard). As I wrote before, when the snow comes knocking, DSL invariably craps out. This storm serves as another datapoint confirming that, yes, there is definitely a break in the cable shielding somewhere along the landlines that provide our DSL -- whenever we get enough moisture, it gets in there and shorts it out.

One snag in the process of setting up the EvDO for the second time is that I forgot to set the Gateway on the clients (the desktop computers connecting over 802.11) to 192.168.137.1 rather than 192.168.137.254. If you recall from my previous post, .254 is the IP of the router itself, and .1 is the IP of the LAN adapter on the laptop hosting the EvDO connection. I had accidentally punched in .254 as the gateway, and obviously that didn't work -- .254 is just a "dumb switch", translating between 802.11n and ethernet. .1 is the connection endpoint that does the real work, namely ICS.

Anyway, another stab in the eye for Verizon the landline carrier, and another victory for Verizon Wireless. If only EvDO were faster, I would cancel DSL entirely...