tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132273.post684878606630145064..comments2023-05-01T11:44:04.490-03:00Comments on D for Disorientation: Politics: boring as usualPablohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296074005654785159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132273.post-17254390779130505772007-05-05T19:57:00.000-03:002007-05-05T19:57:00.000-03:00Good luck in dealing with Telecom. They were my I...Good luck in dealing with Telecom. They were my ISP for a year in BsAs. Their download speeds were less than stated much of the time and the upload speeds were very slow. Doing live video conferencing between Argentina and the US was difficult at best. At my new apartment in BsAb there are about 20 open wifi access points, and I’ve checked the up/down speeds on them. It seems that with both cable and DSL connections the speeds are considerably less than the advertised tiers and there is a huge latency (when connecting to servers in the US) in the first few hops within Argentina - which would make live video choppy and pixilated in the extreme. The other problem around my neighborhood is that many wireless routers has been left on the default channel 6 (and often they’re called “linksys”) resulting in lots of packet collisions.<BR/><BR/>JohnSFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846379168854781828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132273.post-38158978909479999482007-05-03T19:09:00.000-03:002007-05-03T19:09:00.000-03:00Sorry to see you've got the moderation on again......Sorry to see you've got the moderation on again...there's a lot of junk going around the argentine blogs at the mo...maybe it'll cool off when the guy(s) see their comments won't get posted...Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09900725715325926065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132273.post-55885769500231318452007-05-03T18:46:00.000-03:002007-05-03T18:46:00.000-03:00Pablo-do you actually vote or do you spoil the bal...Pablo-do you actually vote or do you spoil the ballot paper? <BR/><BR/>When argentines vote, do they actually think they're going to make a difference or do they vote because they're legally obliged to? It'd be interesting to know. Pretty much all argentines complain about policitians and how corrupt they are etc but why do you keep voting for the same ones? Lack of choice? <BR/><BR/>I mean, the whole point of having the right to vote is having the right to change things, to make a difference to society as and when it's needed. Otherwise there's simply no point in voting at all.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09900725715325926065noreply@blogger.com