Cogeco finally cut me off for mutilating my bandwidth cap and I am not happy – I can not live without my interweb tubes!  Luckily a neighbour has graciously left their AP wide open, just asking for me to join.  I looked into using Tomato to join their network and act as a wireless client, however it didn’t work as well as I’d hoped.  I needed my phones to work (since I strictly use VoIP) so I couldn’t just connect with one system, I had to latch my entire network on to theirs.

I went ahead and installed Firestarter on the laptop that got the best connection, I then installed dhcp3-server and set my eth0 static.  I started up Firestarter and shared the connection, I then plugged my eth0 into the WAN port of  my DDWRT.  VoIP calls were pretty bad until I allowed incoming traffic from my ITSP (using firestarter) however my entire network is connected and running well (without having to modify settings on my router).  I called Cogeco and my service should be re-enabled as of tonight so of course I will stop leaching at that point.  It is just nice to know that there is always a backup plan for this type of situation.

So for the past year and a half I have apparently been destroying my bandwidth cap with Cogeco.  I am currently paying ~ $80 monthly (internet only) and get 16Mbps Down, 1.5 Mbps Up with Cogeco Residential Pro.

I have a 100 GB combined bandwidth cap and was looking for another upgrade.  This is the next logical step :

Difference in price : ~ $20 monthly

Difference in bandwidth : 100 GB (200 total)

Extras : 1 static IP

This is my usage according to Tomato over the last three weeks, personally I think it is worth the upgrade.

I think that it is ridiculous people are requesting VMWare console ported to Mac as it really is not necessary.

Just one of the many reasons I adore Asterisk.