Why shouldn't he have 4 or 5 addresses? Most colo providers will either allocate a /30 or /29 to your machine, and there are very good reasons for this.

Playing the "conserver ipv4 IPs!" game is ridiculous when there's a standard right there that will completely remove these type of concerns. It's time to move on.

360 does not support ipv6, so you can't be seeing it on there. For the others, those are probably link local addresses or link locals AND actual routable IPv6 addresses, if you have an ipv6 device advertising routes (could be happening, some devices already do this automatically). You need to read up on how ipv6 works.

If you want light, always in text format, easily searchable, and fast, maildir + mairix is your answer. You don't even need to keep your mail in a flat structure. Place this on a server with IMAP/s access, and you'll never have to move your mail again. Just make sure you have good backups. For the fastest results ever? Access your email over SSH using mutt. The only drawback is that if you're not a CLI person (and this doesn't even't use it that much), you're going to hate this, or at least have to pile on a few scripts to web-ify mairix and its search results.

And no offense to the gmail users, but true blue email types would never turn over their emails to anything not completely under their control.

Um, what do you think he was doing? It doesn't matter how secure your wifi network is if you can't cleanly get a signal through all the hundreds of OTHER base stations operating on the same frequencies in the immediate area.

Rather than re-iterate, I'll just link to a similar reply I had made from the other day. Summary: it's weird what you experienced in Chicago, and I had the exact opposite of what you experienced (plus a much larger set of data - 63 POPs to be exact). Did you try and move it anywhere else? Since it's WiMax, you can just go anywhere with power...

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1669832&cid=32403606

I'm not sure why you put that in after following your logic of latency (there can be, if the infrastructure is done incorrectly) or throughput, unless you're indicating that for the latter it won't be cost effective to handle a certain amount of customers based on available bandwidth. I'm assuming you're not including battery life that you mentioned afterwards, as that would probably not be applicable in a DSL-replacement scenario. Enlighten please?

Las Vegas - that makes sense. From everything on the broadbandreports.com forum, LV + Clear is failing badly. I'm not sure why as you LV doesn't appear to be a difficult city to cover with WiMax, but what do I know...

Supposedly the Motorola units will have bridge mode eventually, though I'm not holding my breath (really, is it that hard? It's in the interface, just disabled). It's fairly annoying (similar experiences to yours with VPNs/port forwarding), but since it works well otherwise, we're willing to use workarounds... for now.

My experience is completely different. In Chicago, we literally have 50+ of these things deployed all over the city, all at 6/1 speed tiers. We regularly get 10mb down (well above our bandwidth tier), and always get at least 1mb up. Latency is anywhere from 50-100ms to most hops; it could be better, but Clear is somewhat nacent and I hear they're focusing more on raw bandwidth than latency (apparently with 4G you can approach the latency of wired services). We've had these units in place for about 7 months now, both as primary and out of band connections - we really couldn't be happier. The only thing that could be improved upon is the lack of NAT control on the devices they currently use.

I have a feeling that wherever you are, the backhauls are completely overloaded. This actually happened to a couple of our POPs - one in particular was only getting 1/1 and was getting daily dis-associations from the WiMax tower sometime between 1 and 3AM for about 20 seconds. Customer service was unbelievably accommodating though - they said that work was being done on the tower that particular POP was associating with, and that we wouldn't be charged AT ALL until the tower work was verified complete and our connection was stable. Basically we had an ok and usable connection for free, and when whatever work was completed, we knew right away - the bandwidth jumped up to right where the other POPs were. Consider me impressed with their customer service, to which I'm normally used to horrible, horrible experiences.

Sigh. Read the parent. Then the GP. Then the GPP. Unless you live in some kind of bizzaro world, the logic involved in such compensation does not exist, ergo, borderline troll.

Troll? Some people have a strange definition of the word...

That's the point - it was ridiculously off topic to the point of almost trolling.

And this justifies downloading it how?

So? It's still DRM. Getting screwed nicely is still getting screwed.

because by limiting the platforms on which a service runs will broaden their customer base, enabling them to have better bargaining power with the studios who control source distribution? Thank god you don't run netflix.