Trying to decide whether to up my DSL bandwidth, need opinions.

[Russ]

I'd like some input from those of you that are hitting the TA Cube pproxy regularly. Right now, it's 640/272. I'm looking at the 960/816 option but, before I spend the money, I'd like to see if I actually really need it.

So, how's the load speed been overall? Not necessarily on the half hour, since that's when all you maniacs are hitting the refresh button every 10 seconds, but just generally speaking.

Russ, NCNE

 

[IJump]

I haven't seen too many problems. I run cable at home and a shared T1 at work. They laod fine for me and I haven't had problems getting blocks or viewing the page.

 

[Bakwetu]

No need for that, the pages open quick and nice here. You should fix a better hit counter though, the one you have seems to go only to 99 999. It's only some weeks from now until it will hit the roof.

 

[Netopia]

To be honest, my only problem with your site is that you are on the CyberNot restricted list which is put out by SurfControl... that means that if anyone is at a company using one of serveral different brands of hardware or software monitoring and blocking devices, your page is blocked and they get a "You Are Not Authorized ..." error in their browser.

As an admin, I can get around it, but a regular user wouldn't be able to.

Take care,

Joe

 

[Russ]

Joe,

Are you talking about the pproxy? Why is it on that list? For that matter, what IS that list?

EDIT: Okay, I found their site, and checked their filtering criteria. There is absolutely nothing at my site that is even close to any reason for them to block it.

What URL is blocked? I'd like to have all the ammo before I tattoo their asses.

EDIT #2: Nature of problem determined, thanks Joe.

Russ, NCNE

 

[phatstyl]

dont waste your money on it, you dont need it =) instead invest in yet ANOTHER crack rack, it will let you hold out a little longer against tamade&seed, the borg saviors

 

[Sukhoi]

Bah, forget the DSL and go for a T3.

 

[Adul]

Not unless you are planning to host us a tribes 2 server Russ. you wont be needing the extra badnwidth.

 

[Russ]

You know, you guys aren't helping me rationalize this.



<< You should fix a better hit counter though, the one you have seems to go only to 99 999. >>



Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Russ, NCNE

 

[efun]

Russ of course need more bandwidth, you need to plan for the future the borg expansion, You MUST maintain speedy communications into the collective. And anyway It just took a good 3 seconds for stats to load

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I check stats there several times/day and haven't had a problem

 

[LANMAN]

No problems here... Save the cash.

--LANMAN

 

[Netopia]

Russ,

I don't know about with your Linux box, but with Win boxes there are plenty of free-ware utilities which show both current throughput and overall throughput. I use a little free one from ZDNet called netpersec. Anyway, if you used something like this, you could see how much bandwidth you had used over a specific period... like a week for example... and then multiply out what your 272k was capable of passing over that week to see if you are getting anywhere near the limits of your line.

If my numbers are correct, in a perfect world, your 272kb/s line should be capable of transmitting about 19 1/2 Gigs of data per week. I sort of doubt you are hitting anywhere near that... although your lines may indeed be saturated at different times during the day... during those &quot;peak stats hours&quot;!

Joe

 

[Adul]

If you do upgrade Russ, would you mind hosting a tribes 2 server We can use that extra bandwidth quite nicely

 

[Zorn]

No problems here either...loads fine, whether the 1st or 100th refresh of the day

 

[ku]

Damn... DSL around my area is practically dead. Covad cut their services around here. Northpoint died. Those two were a couple of the major CLECs around here...

 

[Stanman]

I just fetched and flushed at 20+ rigs in less than a half hour and refreshed the stats 2 or 3 times (approx) he he, and have no problems.
Spend the money on your racks or a new coffee maker, (something you need).

 

[BurntKooshie]

or, according to the guys at resellerratings, an air filter:Q (just pickin' russ, I love your packaging )

 

[Russ]

Adul,

That is a game. Games eat CPU cycles, therefore the company has a strict policy against installation of games on a systems. I don't want to get in trouble.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Fingers]

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhht

 

[efun]

haha, silly russ if your looking for something bandwidth monitoring like for linux try bwm if your running deb i believe you can just to an apt-get install bwm current version is 1.1.0 gives you your current bandwidth usage across all configured interfaces. Also iptraf may be useful for you.

 

[Russ]

Efun,

I'm running Mandrake. Is there an RPM for BWM?

Russ, NCNE

 

[cpars]

Always quick enough for me

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

What I realized today was if I leave the window open on the pproxy site it periodically will update itself. I'd done this in the past and was vaguely aware it had been refreshed at some point, but today I actually saw it update. I have to think that would be taxing the system and I'll be more careful now to just check stats but not roost there.

 

[Flessan]

As if you couldn't tell already Russ... Seems to be plenty of bandwidth. I for one have NEVER had the page load slow. It's always right there when I need it. But then again... I'm in Guam... and that means I'm checking my stats when you all are asleep!