Try out Speedtest.net

OK. Just got my new wireless-n MIMO router, a D-link DGL-4500 gamefuel router. Now, I think this may have something to do with the outages I've been having the past week, but it is an incredible coincedence that I jumped up to this speed with the new router. Previously it had been no slouch at around 10,000 kb/s. There's a way to copy your results as a link and hyper link. This is about the average of my scores. Everyone, go to speedtest.net and use the midpoint of your results and post them. It'll be kind of curious. I'll try the dsl at work tomorrow.

NFL rant

OK, here's my situation. I work weekends. I work until 8 pm almost every night during the week. Now that I'm on the west coast, that means I miss almost every freakin' NFL game except for the first quarter of the early games on Sunday and the 2nd half of the Sunday night game. I get to watch about 5 minutes of Monday or Thursday night football. I know I'm probably in the minority on this issue, but I want to know how Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL for god's sake offer a way to watch games with your broadband access and the freakin' NFL can't?

Isnt' the NFL supposed to be the big dogs of all the leagues? I can subscribe to MLB and watch 6 games at once from my laptop, but I am restricted to radio broadcasts with the NFL? Now I am thankful that now NFL Network is actually broadcasting the Thursday night games, albeit only with lookins half of the time, but the only reason they are doing it is to get more people to start liking NFL Network and pressure their cable company to stop being douchebags and include it in their general sports package. See this article on CrunchGear.

Now tell me, am I asking for too much? I would gladly pay probably up to $40 bucks a month just for the priveledge to watch my beloved Bears each and every Sunday. You know what, maybe I'll just buy a Slingbox and say "Screw you NFL, I don't need your broadband package anyway."

Just for the record, I have been paying $10 a month for the past 2 years just to listen to Bears games while I'm on the road.

The Fastest Internet Connection: Blue Hair In Sweden

This is becoming maddening!!! Everyone is getting all the cool stuff that I wish were in the U.S. It seems that an old Swedish lady has become the fastest surfer on the Internet, as crazy as that sounds. Sigbritt Löthberg is sporting a 40 Gbps Internet hookup!!! And the kicker is that she's 1200 miles away from the accusal connection source. All using fibre Optics.

So how fast is that? She could download a full High Definition DVD in 2 seconds!!! Or if she would like, watch 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously.With standard broadband you would be looking at hours, so now regular broadband is turning into dial up.

According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place.

"I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has," said Peter Löthberg

If the distance is truly unlimited, I'm ready for my hook up!!!
Read the entire article here. [The Local via Crunchgear]