Hello ! NIce to meet you !

[AnyFree]

Hello !
I joined to this forum a few days ago. I think here is a nice forume.
I also love Fedora Linux very much. Here is Korea and I am Korean.
In case of Korea, Fedora Linux is using for linux education in a lot of school such as high school, college and University.
So, I also love Fedora core linux.
In my case, Fedora core 5 is using at my house for a security server.
I'm running it for Private Firewall, Proxy server and FTP server, Personal web server.
Below is my home-network pic.


Have a good day !

[joe.pelayo]

Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy your Fedora experience.

[AnyFree]

Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy your Fedora experience.
Thanks a lot.
Have a good day !

[sailor]

Welcome to the forum!...It is good to hear that Fedora is becoming a teaching OS in schools :)

[JN4OldSchool]

Welcome AnyFree. It is good to know Fedora is being used in Korea!

[erikd]

Welcome. Nice diagram. Wow. Fiber to the home. What speeds can you achieve?

[hugbees]

Hi! Great that you guys use linux in school, here in Norway we started experimenting with it a few years ago and only in a few schools.

cheers

[dtpucci]

Welcome to Fedora and this forum. Hope you can add to the learning and levity.

[AnyFree]

Thanks all !
Have a good day !

[AnyFree]

Welcome. Nice diagram. Wow. Fiber to the home. What speeds can you achieve?
Yes, right. FTTH is Fiber to the home.
In case of Korea, most internet users are connected with FTTH from your home to your ISP. The maximum speed is 1 Gbps but its speed is limited by ISP.
But I can get maximum speed 60Mbps at my home.
We asre called it 'Optical LAN'.
You know, most of Korean Internet type is a optical network.
Have a good day !

[AnyFree]

Welcome AnyFree. It is good to know Fedora is being used in Korea!
Yes, Computer egineering students of Korea are like Fedora Core Linux very much.
I think Fedora linux better than other linux.
In case of Korea, a lot of engineers are learning Linux system long since.

[AnyFree]

Welcome to the forum!...It is good to hear that Fedora is becoming a teaching OS in schools :)
Our government is planning to introduce main server with Linux base than othere system such as HP-UX, SUN Solaris.
You know, HP-UX and SUN equipmemts are very expensive.
But Linux is not, also it has the stability as HP and SUN.
So, I think Linux will grow up in the Sever market in the future.
Also, most electrical appliances will have a embeded linux in the future.
So, Linux is great operating software.

[erikd]

Yes, right. FTTH is Fiber to the home.
But I can get maximum speed 60Mbps at my home.

Cool.

Verizon is advertising 30-50Mbps service. It's not available here yet, but they're laying fiber around here at a frenetic rate, so I'm looking forward to being hooked up relatively soon.

[AnyFree]

Cool.

Verizon is advertising 30-50Mbps service. It's not available here yet, but they're laying fiber around here at a frenetic rate, so I'm looking forward to being hooked up relatively soon.
Where are you living now ? Can I ask it for you ?

[codergeek42]

Welcome to the Fedora community, AnyFree. Hopefully, you enjoy your stay. :)

[Thetargos]

Cool.

Verizon is advertising 30-50Mbps service. It's not available here yet, but they're laying fiber around here at a frenetic rate, so I'm looking forward to being hooked up relatively soon.
I'm green of envy (and I'm not talking about video cards here)... The day we get such speeds, most of the world will be running in 10s of Gbps :(

The top speed the fastest ISP provides down here is 2mbps, which is what I've got.

[joe.pelayo]

I'm green of envy (and I'm not talking about video cards here)... The day we get such speeds, most of the world will be running in 10s of Gbps :(

The top speed the fastest ISP provides down here is 2mbps, which is what I've got.
MMM, I believe someone (perhaps Megacable) is starting to offer 3mbps.

Joe.

[erikd]

Where are you living now ? Can I ask it for you ?
I'm in Raleigh, North Carolina

I'm green of envy (and I'm not talking about video cards here)... The day we get such speeds, most of the world will be running in 10s of Gbps

The top speed the fastest ISP provides down here is 2mbps, which is what I've got.
Well, don't be too envious, I've done a little more research and found out that my state is not currently in the public deployment plan. I'm not sure how old this information is, but here's a link to the coverage. http://www.fiberexperts.com/fios-availability.html

The link's copyright date is old, so I'm not sure if it's been updated lately. I'll probably call Verizon at some point, but I'm in no hurry at this point since I know it's going to be a while. I'm on their notification list anyway.

FWIW, here's a Wikipedia entry for FiOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fios

[Thetargos]

MMM, I believe someone (perhaps Megacable) is starting to offer 3mbps.

Joe.
They better. Someone has to put up against Prodigy or they'll keep us sunk for quite a while still... Cable Internet in the end (in their current state with Cablevisión, anyway) is still more expensive, as they sure offer your Internet plus Cable TV, but they also offer less speed and less channels than what I've got with Sky + Prodigy. For the family even the speed reduction, as little as by 500kbps is not an option (all members of the family have rather high bandwidth requirements and a 2mbps line is barely cutting it).

[joe.pelayo]

They better. Someone has to put up against Prodigy or they'll keep us sunk for quite a while still... Cable Internet in the end (in their current state with Cablevisión, anyway) is still more expensive, as they sure offer your Internet plus Cable TV, but they also offer less speed and less channels than what I've got with Sky + Prodigy. For the family even the speed reduction, as little as by 500kbps is not an option (all members of the family have rather high bandwidth requirements and a 2mbps line is barely cutting it).
After four years with dial up (until 2005) I was absolutely happy to get a 512kbps connection, and when they upgraded it to 1mbps I welcomed it.

However I must admit that Prodigy's service is not the best (even though I get it through AT&T) because some days I notice the connection is rather slow and upon testing it I have found it to go off to 128kbps (for small periods only) according to their own test methods; when that occurs they know about me in the phone (and that solves the problem).

I hope too that real competition arises in that market.

Joe.

[Thetargos]

Actually I've found that their 2Wire modem/router combos are quite slow and sluggish. I've been a customer of "Infinitum" from mid 2002 (we started off with 256kbps, and been scaled up ever since). Back then, they did not offer any routers, rather you had to buy one separately, of which now I'm thankful. Pretty much all my friends have Infinitum with a 2Wire router/modem. Before I had a spare system set up as the firewall/router-file server (which ran beautifully with FC2, then got upgraded to FC5 and now is only a file server), but I needed to scale up the network for wireless, so I bought a Linksys WRT54G router flashed with the dd-wrt firmware. I couldn't be happier. I have noticed that my friends with 2Wire setups (particularly older models) have quite a high latency in their connections (by that I mean that the time their machines sends a request to the network and then receive data is quite high, in the order of several tens of seconds), if it is to a high traffic site, it is worse still. They used to blame Prodigy until I proved to them it was their routers/modems, I hate that of Prodigy.

[marcrblevins]

AnyFree,
Welcome to Fedora Forum!

[joe.pelayo]

Actually I've found that their 2Wire modem/router combos are quite slow and sluggish. I've been a customer of "Infinitum" from mid 2002 (we started off with 256kbps, and been scaled up ever since). Back then, they did not offer any routers, rather you had to buy one separately, of which now I'm thankful. Pretty much all my friends have Infinitum with a 2Wire router/modem. Before I had a spare system set up as the firewall/router-file server (which ran beautifully with FC2, then got upgraded to FC5 and now is only a file server), but I needed to scale up the network for wireless, so I bought a Linksys WRT54G router flashed with the dd-wrt firmware. I couldn't be happier. I have noticed that my friends with 2Wire setups (particularly older models) have quite a high latency in their connections (by that I mean that the time their machines sends a request to the network and then receive data is quite high, in the order of several tens of seconds), if it is to a high traffic site, it is worse still. They used to blame Prodigy until I proved to them it was their routers/modems, I hate that of Prodigy.
Is 2wire a brand name? As mentioned above I have my connection through AT&T (which provided dial up for me before, infinitely superior to AOL) but charges come in my Telmex bill as Prodigy so it is a rebranded Prodigy after all. I've got a SpeedStream DSL modem from them only (it has printed "Infinitum" on it), and that's it, as far as I know it does not have firewall capabilities. Since I wanted both my laptop and my desktop to access internet I bought an Encore router which also works as a firewall.

Perhaps I will move to Prodigy later just to get a Wireless modem (is it a router too?).

Thanks.
Joe.

[Dan]

Welcome aboard, AnyFree.

That was a very nice initial post, and a nicer diagram. <..:D..>


Dan

[Thetargos]

Joe (pepe)

Yes, 2Wire (www.2wire.com) is a brand name known for many, many products. And yes, they're modem/routers/WLAN APs. The newer models (grey and white, square shapes) are much better than their beige line was, as they have less latency. Their firewall is decent, but nothing spectacular.

[marcrblevins]

My twin bro has AT&T/Yahoo(was SBC/Yahoo) service came with that 2Wire router thingy. He still uses it. I looked at that 2Wire weblink provided, doesn't mention AT&T or Yahoo, I'm lost. Oh well...

[Thetargos]

2Wire has a key system for providers, but you can use a "master" key which is provided by them directly to "enable" the devices via their web-ui. As long as you enter that key, you're fine. My provider isn't listed either, and they exclusively use 2Wire equipment, and I've been using the keys off their site to activate a hefty number of modem/routers.