On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:34 -0700, Tod Merley wrote:
On Oct 30, 2007 8:09 AM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>
wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
> > May I make a simple suggestion as it sounds as if you are fighting a battle
> > that will continue to be fought? Keep in mind that I forgot the family
> > dynamics in play.
> >
> > Is your connection to the internet ADSL? If so, why not just get a second
> > phone line for ADSL only and another ISP account that is dedicated to the
> > twins to use. Maybe you can get it for a discount as you have one account
> > already and maybe you can get them a lower usage level. If they use it up,
> > so be it. You are unaffected. Your choice as to who pay the freight.
> >
> >
> The family dynamics are good, everyone is cooperating, the kids I can
> manage.
>
> ADSL and Cable are not options in this rural area. It's either the
> satellite connection or Verizon dial-up. We suffered with dial-up for
> several years, we had two lines actually, canceled those and changed to
> this Wildblue account which works well normally.
>
> I need to find what is driving the usage numbers, they were dropping
> until about a week ago. The solution may be to put the boys back on a
> dial-up or their mother may just leave them without internet? But that
> doesn't define/identify the problem.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
>
Forgive me if this has already been addressed (I must admit that I've
skipped a lot of threads lately), but, is it maybe possible that the
boxes in question are simply part of some P2P stuff going on? Teenage
boys do indeed love their [porn|mp3's|warez crap|bootleg movies|cracked
software|fill in the blank].
Andy