FibreOp is finally to my neighbourhood!\u00a0 I have my appointment booked for the first part of January to get it installed.\u00a0 I am really looking forward to it because:<\/p>\n
a) it gets me off Rogers Cable services.\u00a0 Not only is FibreOp cheaper but I won’t have to listen to the “We are experiencing higher than normal call levels” – even at 2:00 AM – only to have them tell me to reboot my digital cable box;<\/p>\n
b) it upgrades me from Warp 3 – yes, the original 1.5 MB down\/ 768 KB up service – to 30 MB down\/30 MB up.\u00a0 The CSR I was talking to said that I would notice a speed increase.\u00a0 No 5h1t!\u00a0 Ha, ha!<\/p>\n
This means, however, that my nice multi-zoned and firewalled home network setup is toast.\u00a0 For now at least.\u00a0 Others have told said, and I have done far too much Googling on the subject, that “yes” I can host my web server on FibreOp but I really do not like the way that you have to use the FibreOp supplied router.\u00a0 It seems like a nice<\/em> home router but it is not up to the level of my SonicWall routers.\u00a0 Maybe things will change but…<\/p>\n I have a server hosting provider out of Montreal.\u00a0 I wanted to keep it in Canada as I prefer to stay national if possible.\u00a0 Not that I don’t trust U.S. PATRIOT Act laws.\u00a0 No, not at all…<\/p>\n My sites have been moved to the new hosting service.\u00a0 The weather station was a little challenge as I had to move everything over to SCP and Cumulus doesn’t support SCP yet.\u00a0 Anyway it is working now.\u00a0 And so is the blog which you are reading now.\u00a0 I actually didn’t have to read too much to remember how to backup and restore a database and permissions \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FibreOp is finally to my neighbourhood!\u00a0 I have my appointment booked for the first part of January to get it installed.\u00a0 I am really looking forward to it because: a) it gets me off Rogers Cable services.\u00a0 Not only is … Continue reading