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You know it's cold when your (community) wireless Internet service becomes really fast... On the first day it got "cold" in College Station, which is about 55F, I was surprised that my Linux torrents were going at 500KB/s! It usually runs at 100KB/s on a good summer day and performance is really variable (from ~150KB/s to nothing!) on rainy days regardless of the temperature...
Really, it's sad that much of Texas has practically no real winter... So to test the theory about Broadcom routers performing better in cold weather, I'm having my best friend Allie Moore take a Linksys WRT54G V3 running OpenWRT to Chicago over the break for some real cold weather testing. (Maybe the BCM4712 platform performs better below freezing just like the Pentium 3 I refrigerated for my Science Fair project...)
Here in Texas, I have to use technology to get a temperature much below freezing, even during the winter. Up north, going well below freezing is free - just take it outside! (There's an old saying: "The best overclockers are from Russia.")
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If America manages to eliminate obesity, we would save as much fuel as if every American were to stop driving for three days every year. To be slender like Tiffany Yep is to be a real hypermiler...
Allie Moore and I have a combined carbon footprint much smaller than that of one average American...
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