Bears Do Shit In The Woods Hints on Rural Living for Geeks Dave Phelan-Player BarCampBrighton4 2009-09-06

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But… New Challenges No Maps for these Territories New Skills Stuff you can’t find on Wikipedia

New Challenges

No Maps for these Territories

New Skills

Stuff you can’t find on Wikipedia

No Maps For These Territories

No Maps For These Territories

Broadband. Broad-ish. tucker#sh dsl int atm0 Alcatel 20150 chipset information ATU-R (DS) ATU-C (US) Modem Status: Showtime (DMTDSL_SHOWTIME) DSL Mode: ITU G.992.1 (G.DMT) ITU STD NUM: 0x01 0x1 Vendor ID: 'ALCB' 'ALCB' Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0x0000 Vendor Country: 0x00 0x0F Capacity Used: 97% 82% Noise Margin: 4.0 dB 10.0 dB Output Power: 15.0 dBm 12.0 dBm Attenuation: 60.0 dB 31.5 dB Defect Status: None None Last Fail Code: None Selftest Result: 0x00 Subfunction: 0x15 Interrupts: 1354 (0 spurious) PHY Access Err: 0 Activations: 4 Init FW: embedded Operation FW: embedded SW Version: 3.8131 FW Version: 0x1A04 Interleave Fast Interleave Fast Speed (kbps): 480 0 448 0 Reed-Solomon EC: 71 0 0 0 CRC Errors: 0 0 0 0 Header Errors: 0 0 0 0 Bit Errors: 0 0 BER Valid sec: 0 0 BER Invalid sec: 0 0 Interleave Fast Speed (kbps): 480 0 Reed-Solomon EC: 71 0 Actual data rate: 448 Kbps , margin 10.0 dB (2.51 times 6 Db) Maximum estimate: 546.34 Kbps Transmit level 12.0 dBm, attenuation 31.5 dB

tucker#sh dsl int atm0

Alcatel 20150 chipset information

ATU-R (DS) ATU-C (US)

Modem Status: Showtime (DMTDSL_SHOWTIME)

DSL Mode: ITU G.992.1 (G.DMT)

ITU STD NUM: 0x01 0x1

Vendor ID: 'ALCB' 'ALCB'

Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0x0000

Vendor Country: 0x00 0x0F

Capacity Used: 97% 82%

Noise Margin: 4.0 dB 10.0 dB

Output Power: 15.0 dBm 12.0 dBm

Attenuation: 60.0 dB 31.5 dB

Defect Status: None None

Last Fail Code: None

Selftest Result: 0x00

Subfunction: 0x15

Interrupts: 1354 (0 spurious)

PHY Access Err: 0

Activations: 4

Init FW: embedded

Operation FW: embedded

SW Version: 3.8131

FW Version: 0x1A04

Interleave Fast Interleave Fast

Speed (kbps): 480 0 448 0

Reed-Solomon EC: 71 0 0 0

CRC Errors: 0 0 0 0

Header Errors: 0 0 0 0

Bit Errors: 0 0

BER Valid sec: 0 0

BER Invalid sec: 0 0

Mobile Network?

Mobile Network FAIL

Power Cuts Not just Brownouts Be prepared Camping Stove Candles Wired Phone Modem! Freezer Wood Burning Stove…

Not just Brownouts

Be prepared

Camping Stove

Candles

Wired Phone

Modem!

Freezer

Wood Burning Stove…

Fire Making

Fire Making Same principle for outdoors or indoors Base/Platform of dry wood Small heart of flammable material Paper and cardboard Thin kindling in a pyramid Larger wood around outside or over top

Same principle for outdoors or indoors

Base/Platform of dry wood

Small heart of flammable material

Paper and cardboard

Thin kindling in a pyramid

Larger wood around outside or over top

Wildlife Deer Foxes Squirrels A zillion types of bird Other rodents

Deer

Foxes

Squirrels

A zillion types of bird

Other rodents

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