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It should be running at roughly 500-800 kilobits per second (about the speed of low-end DSL and 10x-20x the speed of dialup). Most speed test sites shoudl report in kilobits per second (not kilobytes - which should be in the 80 KBps range). I can't help you with the Internet Connection Sharing...

Well, this thread may have convinced my wife to let me get it (with a gift cert to B&N, probably)

Speaking for myself; I'd expect 3G WWAN to be more reliable and rather lower latency than satellite. Satellite, after all, has to make the round trip from the ground station to the bird, and then from the bird to your dish. Whereas EVDO Rev.A has a latency of around 150-200 ms. You probably...

Internet conection sharing and/or wifi in peer-to-peer (ad hoc) mode would work, I believe. (I think I set it up that way once as a lark - and shut it down shortly thereafter due to not wanting to push to then-extand T&Cs). Here's a device that claims to chare USB devices -...

I believe you can get through third-parties a router that will take USB in and provide ethernet out, but I can't find any roight now

OK - I have one of these through my employer. It is essentially a cell phone without the voice capability, only data. For a desktop machine, get a USB device - you won't get support from VZW for a desktop connecting through an adapter to a PCMCIA or express card. Take a good look at...

Don't suppose there's a timeline? Not being able to make news subs is a pain ;)

I get the same error when attempting to subscribe to a new thread. Email notification *appears* to be working, at least as well as it ever has for me (I've been reasonably sure I miss some notifications).

Pocket IE. Let me doublecheck, since my personal device is a somewhat elderly 2003se device, while my work device is a WM2005 unit. The 2005 device, all I had to do was scroll to the bottom and log in (I'm using One-column). Just pulled up the Ironfang keep article ; quite readable The 2003se...

Oh, I would rahter have something more flexible than PDF as well. PDF is about my least favorite format for reading on an electronic device; since the layout is fixed; and cannot be adjusted fro the specifics of your device. Give me HTML at the level of D&D inseider (which comes up quite usable...

Yeah - I would love to know more about what the per-encounter and at-will abilities are.

I dunno about everyone else, but I've been having a stimulating conversation with RC. And I'm glad he brought up the new info; there's so much new information coming out about 4e in different places that I lose track. And while I'm pretty sure we have enough of a difference in gaming philosophy...

My sarcasm meter is in the shop getting recalibrated. That is sarcasm, right?

And this is why WotC will end up selling both PDFs and paper - if they price it right.

Multi-posting becase I don't feel like editing large chunks of my previous post to rebut some of the arguments against Baen. first, Baen is a top-tier speculative-fiction publishing house, with numerous NYTimes bestselling authors, not a fly-by-night outfit. Secondly, they have claimed that the...

Now that one I can show you an example of. Baen books gives away a CD with a LOT of ebooks in many first-printing hardbacks. The CD contains rather more than just the one ebook (it typically contains the entire series that the book is part of, is free to distribute, and they also sell the ebooks...

Until the Crab Clan samurai says "The Mountain Does Not MOVE", and takes no damage, then disassembles the poor Crane courtier.... (I was enither playing the crab nor the crane in that one).

I have been utterly unable to "wing" 3ed D&D. Not for lack of trying, or inexperience at starting a session with nothing more than an NPC name (some of my best sessions in Shadowrun started that way). Anything that makes 4ed easier in that regard gets my support.

I'm going to have to agree with Raven Crowking here (shocking as that might sound :) ). An encounter is not combat. An encounter is a challenge. There are many ways to deal with an encounter. (I'm not sold on the bodak being a good monster outside of an extremely narrow niche, however -...

One of the "Netbook" projects on the WotC forums (the Dungeonomicon) touches on what period the "assumed setting" of D&d closely resembles - the Bronze Age/Heroic Age. Going with this influence, you get the "Champion vs Champion" often decides things instead of armies; and that raid, pillage...