2008/9/10 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: >> >> $ ping google.com >> PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 >> time=180 ms > > What seems to be the problem here? >
180ms? At my university I can get it down to 17ms. That's an order of magnitude difference. Also, browsing from my ISP is _slow_ even though the download speedometers show that I am doing the 180 kb/sec that I pay for. Large files do download as they should, but connecting takes a very, very long time. Just typing in google.com and waiting for it to load can take upwards of 15 seconds. >> Are there any known problems / gotchas with OpenDNS? I do know that >> they redirect google queries through their own servers and return ads >> in place of unregistered domains, but those 'features' can be turned >> off. Anything else that I should be aware of? > > How do you do that? > You can sign up for an account, you are identified by your IP. There are tools for people with nonstatic IP addresses. >> http://what-is-what.com >> http://gibberish.co.il >> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > I've changed my terminal to rxvt-unicode and now I can see all > characters except the second from the end which is show as an upright > rectangle. xfce4-terminal is showing them all correctly, but bigger. I'm > using the same default font for both (Terminus). > >> ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü > > Here I see the German "Umlaute" and the "scharffes S". > Yes, that is correct. In fact, if you can configure your terminal to get gibberish out of those two lines, I would appreciate if you send to me the gibberish in a private email. I use it to help translate gibberish back into legible Hebrew and German. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
