Damn I need to find the national post. Shouldn't be TOO hard to get it in Detroit - although I could just as easily make a trip to canada. It's only 10 minutes away
Damn I need to find the national post. Shouldn't be TOO hard to get it in Detroit - although I could just as easily make a trip to canada. It's only 10 minutes away
Thx lemonlime for putting this scan here, i've drive to Joliette and i tried to find one National Post , without success most of the place i've been only buy 2 or 5 copy of the NP and so they are out of order pretty fast and pretty soon on the morning. Most people here only buy 'Journal de Montréal', a french news paper that is made 'in quebec, for quebec people', so i've seen 3 piles of this news paper, but no NP. They was only some Globe & mail and The Gazet as english news paper. :shakehead
At least i've print your scan and it will stay in the scrapbook of my 'life achievement' forever
I feel sorry that the link of the site is putted on 2 seperated lines, but people who read news paper will surely deal with that and manage to come here anyway if they are looking to read the article, or will google it and find a website that link us anyway
Hahah guys you should have seen the face of my father when i showed him the scanned pciture of the article. It was awesome, at first he was thinking 'huh... this is a joke right ?' but when he realized it was true then he turn into a mood like ' ... All of this because of this tower in our backyard ? wtf: Internet is a weird thing with strange underestimated power as i can see'
LoL my father is not very familiar with the Internet technology, i've helped him to buy some items on EBAY, that's all haha
Sometimes he come in my room and watch me play WoW during 10 minutes... Without saying anything, then around out and go do something else hah
LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited November 2008
GooD, I just read your Internet tower story again for the third or fourth time, two years since you finished your tower and wrote the article. I still nod my head in respect to your determination and engineering.
What a surprise for me to see "Reply to thread '60 Feet to High Speed'â€" in my mailbox today
Well it was a hell of a ride for sure
For feedback tho i'm no longer living next to the chruch and i've moved with my girlfirend to a bigger city, with highspeed cable internet isp lol.
Internet with my tower was faster than 56k, but it was not stable... Some day i could do 320 k/s and some other day i could barely do 60 k/s and get d/c a lot of times per day. Trying to play online games was a horrible experience most of the time. (ping 150ms then whoops a 6000ms pike... 150ms... WHOOPS another 6000ms 10 mins later)
I would not say anymore that it was 'worth it' since i had a lot of stability problems with my connection and i moved to another city faster than i was planning but what can i say... i had to try lol
When you try you can fail, when you don't... well you fail everyday.
If anyone is interested, im still trying to 'sell' my 60 feet tower Wanna tell you're friend yours is bigger ? Well buy one ! haha just kidding.
I am going to build a special kind of tower my self. I am working on a portable tower its going on my RV.im making it so that it will exstend and retract. do you have a cable going up with a special receiver up on the top. my spelling bad but ho!well
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I'll scan it in..
I called bookstores, duty free, etc. National Post in Detroit? no go so far
My favorite quote:
Page 13
They hyphenated short-media.com on a column end, which makes it somewhat ambiguous: people will go to shortmedia.com first
* oh how I wish that stick-in-the-mud guy who doesn't even USE SHORTMEDIA.COM would finally sell the stupid name to us
At least i've print your scan and it will stay in the scrapbook of my 'life achievement' forever
I feel sorry that the link of the site is putted on 2 seperated lines, but people who read news paper will surely deal with that and manage to come here anyway if they are looking to read the article, or will google it and find a website that link us anyway
Hey GooD, shoot me a PM with your mailing address and I'll send you the actual cut out
Hahah guys you should have seen the face of my father when i showed him the scanned pciture of the article.
LoL my father is not very familiar with the Internet technology, i've helped him to buy some items on EBAY, that's all haha
Sometimes he come in my room and watch me play WoW during 10 minutes... Without saying anything, then around out and go do something else hah
I want like 20 copies
Can any canadian member help us out? I'll reimburse you.
What a surprise for me to see "Reply to thread '60 Feet to High Speed'â€" in my mailbox today
Well it was a hell of a ride for sure
For feedback tho i'm no longer living next to the chruch and i've moved with my girlfirend to a bigger city, with highspeed cable internet isp lol.
Internet with my tower was faster than 56k, but it was not stable... Some day i could do 320 k/s and some other day i could barely do 60 k/s and get d/c a lot of times per day. Trying to play online games was a horrible experience most of the time. (ping 150ms then whoops a 6000ms pike... 150ms... WHOOPS another 6000ms 10 mins later)
I would not say anymore that it was 'worth it' since i had a lot of stability problems with my connection and i moved to another city faster than i was planning but what can i say... i had to try
When you try you can fail, when you don't... well you fail everyday.
If anyone is interested, im still trying to 'sell' my 60 feet tower
my service provider provides 250mph in upload and download
seeing this article makes me cry in joy that he built his own tower
brings tears that back then 300kph was the shit
good going mate
Hahah that's exactly what i thought
For an update on the tower, i sold it last year for 300 CND
Sometimes i just go back to this article and read it again for no apparent reason lol
Im still amazed at the time that i put in that project in a short period of time back in the days
I am going to build a special kind of tower my self. I am working on a portable tower its going on my RV.im making it so that it will exstend and retract. do you have a cable going up with a special receiver up on the top. my spelling bad but ho!well