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Hark! I Hear a Dropped Packet!

Posted by timothy on from the wacky-ideas-are-good-ideas dept.

aarondsouza writes "The New Scientist has an article about Chris Chafe, a cellist and director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University in California, who has the idea that one can use sound as an audible measure of the health of an internet connection. By sending a bunch of sound pulses across the line and measuring echo time, an average ping time of 10ms would be heard as a 100Hz tone. The idea is that the human ear is much more sensitive to variations in pitch, and thus "listening" to the connection would be a better indicator of its health. The article is short on technical specs but the project page (SoundWIRE) has more."

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  1. Dupe? by jptxs · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/28/123820 9&mode=thread&tid=95

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    1. Re:Dupe? by Tomble · · Score: 3, Informative
      Yeah. At first it sounded like it was a different story with a very coincidentally similar idea, but then looking again, I realised that no, they even seem to be referring to exactly the same article in New Scientist!

      It's one thing when you see a story that had run maybe a few weeks earlier, but earlier on the same day? Ouch.

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  2. Didn't I see this before? by dj28 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, yea. Right HERE on the FRONT PAGE.

  3. Re:Thanksgiving day turkey! by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 5, Informative
    You missed a few:

    4. Duplicate Original

    5. Duplicate Original

    6. Duplicate Original

    (PS, this list is a duplicate.)

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  4. Personally, I'm all for the Dupe! by rMortyH · · Score: 3, Informative

    This one had better links and stuff,
    like the CCRMA home page.

    WWWeeee! We got ./'d!

    Of course I'm biased 'cuz I WORK there and
    Chris Chafe is an awesome guy and the project
    is super cool...

    'skyooz me while I go watch our webserver get
    CRUSHED!

    Seiously though, the page may be kinda dry, but if you dig you'll find some great stuff. There are links to all the top sound software for Linux and ways to optimize your system for sound and music. Check out

    http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/planetccrma /

    It's an amazing lab, doing great work and producing some amazing open source sound software, as well as testing and distributing the work of many others in the field. And there isn't a windows box in the entire place!

    =mortimer

  5. I've read it differently by STREMF · · Score: 2, Informative

    here http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html