I was finally able to download that 1 GB printer driver assortment, but only by wandering around trying different wifi spots.
I knew that I could have downloaded just a 24 MB driver for my specific printer but that would have come at the cost of bringing that printer with me to a wifi spot so OS X would see that it was connected via USB. If OS X can choose my driver because it identifies itself, why can't I just tell OS X myself? Or Epson; Epson's driver download page specifically says to plug the printer in then let OS X take care of it. Some wifi spots have a lot of capacity but rate-limit individual clients. In the case of my dialup I would be able to download that 24 MB driver but there is some problem somewhere out on the Internet backbone. I don't really know but speculate that it has to do with the routers all being optimized to server Facebook to cable modem users. I used dialup from rural Maine from 2001 to 2003 and it worked just fine; it even worked OK to set up IP masquerading so my ex and I could share the dialup service. If I traceroute from here in Salmon Creek, Washington to my server at Hurricane Electric in Fremont, California it goes through dozens of routers, many of which are clearly in the same data center. That is, I'll go through ten or twenty routers at Level 3 in Seattle, then another ten or twenty in Fremont. When I start my day I "flush the tubes" with the following: $ sudo ping -c 100 -f apple.com $ sudo ping -c 100 -f berkeley.edu $ sudo ping -c 100 -f www.vatican.va By tracerouting before and after that flushing, I can see that my packets traverse far fewer routers. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
