So, I've been thinking about planning for TX. I plan on eventually pitching the boss on working 1 week/month in CA and the rest of the time from TX out of the house. This would keep me earning a CA-grade income on a TX cost of living, which would help me kill off some very long-term-annoying debt much more rapidly and possibly help me accumulate scratch for restarting my currency trading. To do this effectively, though, I'll need rock-solid internet access that allows me "local" quality access to Oracle X-Window clients (client & server is backwards in X) over a VPN, not to mention real-time web-conferencing -- an aggregated DSL line is not going to cut it. Any advice from y'all networking geniuses out there? I know at least SuperBiff knows something about this kind of stuff, but I'm a Luddite and don't know anything more than I have to.
If the cost is not too high, I was also thinking I could open up a WAP for members of the hive....
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Look into a business cable line (not residential.. too flaky for stable RD/VNC/VPN). I pay $79/mo for 5mbit down, 2 mbit up with a 24-7 uptime guarantee with SLA.
DSL is garbage; no one who isn't poor should be using it both for tech reasons and the fact that one shouldn't be supporting these corrupt Telecoms who are working hard to put toll booths on net traffic.
So you're gonna commute a whole week a month to CA? That might get really old really fast..
It may indeed get old, but part of the point will be to negotiate not having my salary adjusted -- probably worth it. Besides, I'm not sure that my work would be possible otherwise.
Jim, if you can pull that off and keep a Cali salary while living in Texas, you're going to be able to afford all kinds of stuff you never even dreamt of. If I remember your salary right, then you'll be in good shape. I don't know about business cable -- I'd email Jonathon, since they have a WAP (but a weak one) in their house.
I'd be more concerned about finding out who eats the airfare, and what you do for crash space during that week... assuming you've got that and the job pitch, the rest is just details.
Somehow I'd bet whatever the WAP is is going to be too slow for his purposes..
There's no way I could use a WAP -- period, end of story. I was just thinking I could open up one with the extra bandwidth. A consumer-grade WAP won't even be noticeable on the link I'll need.
Will a FiOS line work? The phone company keeps begging us to let them dig up out yard to put in FiOS lines. It's something like $40 a month.
That's a good question: the thing I wonder with all these guys is the "up to" on all their speed numbers. If those numbers are their "burst" numbers that happen on happy occasions when the stars align, but otherwise things're stuck at 384Mbaud, that's not so good. If, otoh, their 5/2 or 10/2 numbers are reliable, that'd be ok. Ideally I'd want a 10/10 link (faster would be a waste), but I can't imagine that'd be remotely within my budget (whatever my budget turns out to be).
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