something strange has been happening in the land of this lan™

now, given that we're running a bunch of xp boxen off ethernet through a multi-port adsl modem, that in itself is not strange.

but my computer has decided that the modem is now an internet gateway™, having mysteriously achieved this hallowed status sometime today.

the consequence being that i now have rolling stats on upload and download speeds, volumes, and total time connected to the internet gateway™.

according to the this lan™ popup, packets sent and received are both around 30,000,000 over almost 5 days.

the internet gateway™ seems to match with the packets sent to the this lan™, but reports only about 300,000 out and 200,000 in via the internet gateway ...

but the reason for this post is the following: the internet gateway™ reports that i have been online for ... wait for it ... 13,111 and 3/4 days ... thats around 36 years ... which is pretty cool ... especially when i recall that i'm not yet 35 ... lol!    winxp.     it's a b00b b0mb :)