[ale] Speedfactory upgrade

[James P. Kinney III]

www.x10.com . They have the most obnoxious pop-up ads and persistent
email advertising. I have a firecracker starter kit. It has a serial
port module that babbles wirelessly to a powerline receiver module.
There is a power control module that the modem wall wart is plugged in
to. When the software detects a loss of connectivity, it calls the
firecracker sender (there is Linux software for all of this stuff!)
which signals the receiver module to send a power-off signal to the
specified device (the wall wart power block) then it waits 3 seconds and
send the power-on signal.

Dig around for the home automation pages on the x10 site. Then dig out
your wallet!

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:21, Adrin wrote:
> Okay, what is this X10 device??   I have had earthlink/mindspring for years.  Recently
> during storms and  heavy rain, I loose signal.  Usually giving the DSL modem a 1 minute
> rest brings everything back around. Would love to be able to do this through a cron along
> with maybe setting up a pppd dailin sometime.
> 
> I usually don't bother to call earthlink about the outage. Really tired of the same old
> scripted ?? step message and auto response email. Maybe one day I will get all my email
> changed over to a new ISP and do a switch where I don't have to pay extra for static.
> 
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of James
> > P. Kinney III
> > Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:04 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Speedfactory upgrade
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 08:53, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > James Taylor wrote:
> > > > I transferred to speedfactory about a month ago, and it's been mostly
> > > > satisfactory.  I've had a one hour outage which seemed to have been a
> > > > Bell back end maintenance problem.
> > > >
> > > > I have been a little concerned that I've had outages during
> > > > thunderstorms when my power blinks.  I've got all the equipment on UPS,
> > > > but in the lightning storms we've had lately, there have been a couple
> > > > of times when it's taken 5-10 minutes for the DSL modem to reconnect.
> > >
> > > Wierd.  I've got all my hardware behind ups's as well.  There's been
> > > some nasty storms of late, but I've never had any weather related outages.
> > >
> > > You didn't have these problems prior to the move to Speedfactory?
> >
> > I have similar disruptions with my DSL from Speakeasy. If the atmosphere
> > is highly charged, the sync has a tendency to go out. I have tracked
> > this issue through 3 different DSL carriers (BellSouth, Speakeasy and
> > Eathlink). The SDSL connection would remain intact while the ADSL would
> > fail. Apparently, the ADSL sync is more fragile and disruptible than the
> > SDSL. Just as the higher frequency signal tends to bleed out of the low
> > quality twisted pair wires feeding my house, it seems that the broad
> > spectrum emissions from lightning can bleed in.
> >
> > I have an X10 device on my dsl modem and a cron job that pings my
> > upstream router. When I get no response, I reset the modem with the X10
> > power socket.
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
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James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
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