Word cannot handle Microsoft
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@AbbydonKrafts said:
@bstorer said:
Try limiting your UL and DL speeds to 80-90% of the capacity, if µTorrent supports this (I use Azureus). Torrents still fly by, but web surfing doesn't noticeably suffer.It's great, except that when I'm downloading a lot at once, I can't surf the 'net. I don't know if Cox is using some failtastic form of traffic shaping or if my router just goes retarded, but I can't reach the DNS servers.
Neither can I. It really utilizes my bandwidth. It takes hold of the entire thing. My wife wondered why it was so insanely slow on her end. I told her the torrent was taking it all. Now I hold off on large torrents until I'm about to go to bed, then set them to go while I'm asleep.
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@BrownHornet said:
Try limiting your UL and DL speeds to 80-90% of the capacity, if µTorrent supports this (I use Azureus). Torrents still fly by, but web surfing doesn't noticeably suffer.
Yeah, I just cap the upload speed because that is the only thing that seems to affect my web surfing. I can never seem to max out my downstream connection, no matter how many torrents I have going. Man, I can't wait until DOCSIS 3.0 gets rolled out. Apparently Verizon isn't interested in deploying Fios to densely-populated areas yet, so my only hope is Comcast.
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@morbiuswilters said:
Yeah, I just cap the upload speed because that is the only thing that seems to affect my web surfing. I can never seem to max out my downstream connection, no matter how many torrents I have going.
Mine still flakes out even if I cap the speed. I'm pretty certain it's my router, because that thing is the bane of my existence sometimes.
@morbiuswilters said:
Apparently Verizon isn't interested in deploying Fios to densely-populated areas yet, so my only hope is Comcast.
My boss loves his FiOS, except when squirrels chewed through his line and it was out for a week. Me, I'm sticking to Cox Cable, because I've never had a good experience with Verizon. Cox, on the other hand, does everything short of sending out a magician or something to entertain you when the cable's out.
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@bstorer said:
My boss loves his FiOS, except when squirrels chewed through his line and it was out for a week. Me, I'm sticking to Cox Cable, because I've never had a good experience with Verizon. Cox, on the other hand, does everything short of sending out a magician or something to entertain you when the cable's out.
Yeah, I know some people who have Fios and they love it. I would have to go for the $140 (30M / 15M) package to get speeds much faster than my cable, though. Still, having a fiber connection right to my apartment would rock just for the awesome factor. Verizon will also bump up the speeds to compete with cable with DOCSIS 3 comes out.
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@morbiuswilters said:
Still, having a fiber connection right to my apartment would rock just for the awesome factor.
A guy I worked with about eight years ago had a neighbor who had been a Bell Atlantic/Verizon engineer. The guy got a communal T1 set up for the five or six houses on their cul-de-sac. That was like a 9.8 on the Awesome Scale.
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@bstorer said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Sigh, them was the good ol' days. A T1 would be a step down from my typical, day-to-day, joe average domestic broadband connection these days.Still, having a fiber connection right to my apartment would rock just for the awesome factor.
A guy I worked with about eight years ago had a neighbor who had been a Bell Atlantic/Verizon engineer. The guy got a communal T1 set up for the five or six houses on their cul-de-sac. That was like a 9.8 on the Awesome Scale.Hang on, unsigh that sigh! That's a good thing!
See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/12/swedish_woman_has_fastest_internet_connection/
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@bstorer said:
It's great, except that when I'm downloading a lot at once, I can't surf the 'net. I don't know if Cox is using some failtastic form of traffic shaping or if my router just goes retarded, but I can't reach the DNS servers.
It's probably your router going retarded... Mine (D-Link DSL-504T) did the same thing, but as soon as I put it into bridge mode and set up a Linux server for routing, it started working perfectly. I guess it's some issue with the memory for connection tracking on the modem getting full or something
And I'm running uTorrent using WINE, I manage to get basically full speed on my connection (~750 KB/s, I've got a ADSL2+ connection and it synchronises at around 6300 Kb/s. It's only that "low" because my telephone line is kinda screwed, and Telstra never fixed it >_<)
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@Daniel15 said:
@bstorer said:
That's the assumption I'm working with, but I'm still probably a month away from having a spare box to set up as a router.It's great, except that when I'm downloading a lot at once, I can't surf the 'net. I don't know if Cox is using some failtastic form of traffic shaping or if my router just goes retarded, but I can't reach the DNS servers.
It's probably your router going retarded... Mine (D-Link DSL-504T) did the same thing, but as soon as I put it into bridge mode and set up a Linux server for routing, it started working perfectly. I guess it's some issue with the memory for connection tracking on the modem getting full or something
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@DaveK said:
@bstorer said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Sigh, them was the good ol' days. A T1 would be a step down from myStill, having a fiber connection right to my apartment would rock just for the awesome factor.
A guy I worked with about eight years ago had a neighbor who had been a Bell Atlantic/Verizon engineer. The guy got a communal T1 set up for the five or six houses on their cul-de-sac. That was like a 9.8 on the Awesome Scale.
typical, day-to-day, joe average domestic broadband connection these
days.Actually, it would probably be a step up. If you've got a T1, your service provider doesn't care if you're saturating it both ways 24/7, or if you're running a server or two. Your typical ISP will cut you off after a month of that sort of behavior.
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@CRNewsom said:
@RayS said:
Fix? I think you meant "something even worse" that only manages even a minority market share by being free that will only make you look like a "omg linux ftw M$ sux!!" troll for suggesting it.
I was really looking for some alternative program that will open .doc files and work on a mac. The list was not long, and this is the only other app I have worked with. It's really not that bad. If you haven't tried it since the first version, I think you will find 2.3 to be a different experience. Or, maybe you won't. Either way, I won't care.
I use google docs. Recently they added support for PPT also.
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@bstorer said:
That's nothing, I've regularly got Eclipse, FF2, Outlook, a couple of Cygwin X sessions, *plus* running an instance of JBOSS. Except when I deploy to the server, I usually don't have too many problems. 'Course, it's a 3.4GHz with 3.5GB ram. Single core, though.@morbiuswilters said:
@bstorer said:
Ha! That's nothing. One time I had FF2, Eclipse, and Acrobat open to a 700-page PDF file all running at the same time. I'm lucky I didn't get burned when the computer exploded.I actually like Eclipse. I just can't run it at the same time as Firefox 2 without bringing my system to its knees.
One should be arrested for subjecting a computer to that much strain.
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@Carnildo said:
Actually, it would probably be a step up. If you've got a T1, your service provider doesn't care if you're saturating it both ways 24/7, or if you're running a server or two. Your typical ISP will cut you off after a month of that sort of behavior.
Yeah, but he's talking about a consumer broadband connection which is generally idle most of the time. I would much prefer "speed on demand" rather than a slow, steady trickle into my home. Also, I can transfer the same amount of total traffic in a month as a maxed-out T1 using only about 10% of my cable connection and I probably wouldn't get flagged for it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I exceed the total monthly capacity of a T1 on a regular basis..
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@morbiuswilters said:
Quite. My cable company doesn't seem to pay any attention to my bandwidth. They just block ports 80 and 8080 and call it a day.@Carnildo said:
Actually, it would probably be a step up. If you've got a T1, your service provider doesn't care if you're saturating it both ways 24/7, or if you're running a server or two. Your typical ISP will cut you off after a month of that sort of behavior.
Yeah, but he's talking about a consumer broadband connection which is generally idle most of the time. I would much prefer "speed on demand" rather than a slow, steady trickle into my home. Also, I can transfer the same amount of total traffic in a month as a maxed-out T1 using only about 10% of my cable connection and I probably wouldn't get flagged for it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I exceed the total monthly capacity of a T1 on a regular basis..
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@bstorer said:
Quite. My cable company doesn't seem to pay any attention to my bandwidth. They just block ports 80 and 8080 and call it a day.
My ISP doesn't care about such things - not only they allow you to run servers, but if you choose to have a static IP, they'll set the PTR record to your chosen hostname (after checking that it points to your IP). I'm one of the lucky ones with fiber, paying 50€/month for 50/50 line.
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@ender said:
@bstorer said:
Quite. My cable company doesn't seem to pay any attention to my bandwidth. They just block ports 80 and 8080 and call it a day.
My ISP doesn't care about such things - not only they allow you to run servers, but if you choose to have a static IP, they'll set the PTR record to your chosen hostname (after checking that it points to your IP). I'm one of the lucky ones with fiber, paying 50€/month for 50/50 line.Ha, sucker! That's like $700 a month!
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@bstorer said:
but I'm still probably a month away from having a spare box to set up as a router.
Get a linksys WRT54GS routerand install the DD-WRT firmware on it, and you'll have a full Busybox Linux install. The only caveat is you should try and find an older revision of the hardware: they had 32meg of ram. Newer models only have 4. The firmware runs on other hardware as well, if they've got a Broadcom CPU, though I've only ever tried it on the Linksys.
Unlike the stock Linksys stuff, DD-WRT's never crashed on me, and other than a few tweaks to the size of the NAT tables, I have no trouble at all doing large Bittorrent downloads through it either, even with 40 or 50 peers active.
