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   More issues with the Monopolistic Phone Company's “wireless service unit”
                                        
Day three of the “wireless service unit” and it's becoming clear why so many
people are returning it [1]. Bunny's laptop seems to drop consistently from
the network, and I can't figure out why it's happening. She needs to turn off
Wi-Fi, then turn it back on again, and she can use the Internet for some
random period of time.

There was a spontaneous reboot of the “wireless service unit” last night. The
thing takes an unusually long time to boot up. We're talking a solid five
minutes or so.

The signal strength of the internet connection fluctuates wildly throughout
the day.

And the only positive aspect I found, the IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6)
assignment, isn't what I thought it was. It, too, is reassigned at random
like the IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) address. **There is no need for
that to happen!** The IPv6 address space is large enough to almost assign
every grain of sand on Earth its own IPv6 /64 network address space! There is
no reason to reassign IPv6 addresses **at all!** 

Sheesh.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/08/14.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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