Cable

https://gist.github.com/1130675

https://gist.github.com/1130675

https://gist.github.com/1130675

http://www.timewarnercable.com/SoCal/learn/hso/roadrunner/speedpricing.html advertised service level for TWC, SoCal

http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki a project to fight a “buffer bloat” problem, or in general to fight various problems on broadband links causes by ISPs / by Jim Gettys, one of the authors of X and HTTP/1.1 )

http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/ Prolific PL2303 USB serial adapter driver for Mac OS X. This chip is used in various devices like usb serial dongles and as cheap embedded USB bridge in cellphones, GPS receivers and other applications with low data traffic.

http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=14:50205 list of equipment required for building fiber-optic network, mainly field tech tools