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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. REPEAT by techathead · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Rpeeat from earlier today.
    FP by the way

  2. What is this?! A Jerry Lewis Dupe-a-Thon? by Snarfvs+Maximvs · · Score: 2, Redundant

    What is this?! A Jerry Lewis Dupe-a-Thon?

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  3. Do I even need to say it? by demon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a duplicate. C'mon guys, this is at least the _third_ duplicate story today.

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  4. Dupe detected... by eWarz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a dupe, see This article

  5. echo? by serps · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do I detect an echo?

    But seriously, this dupe is on the front page...

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  6. dupe by Brian+Boitano · · Score: 0, Redundant

    judging by the previous comments (and the very similar story on the front page), I think this story may be a duplicate

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  7. I will not read slashdot any longer by MichaelNeale · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is the last straw. For 3 years this has been my home page. Today I am finding somewhere else to put it.

    3 dupes in 1 day !!
    How F^&*%^*KING hard is it for the editors to, *gasp* read the headlines before posting an article. Must take about 10 seconds. And slashdot has people on staff !!

  8. In the Emergency Room by $carab · · Score: 1, Redundant

    DOCTOR SPENCER: Yes. More apparatus, please, nurse: the E.E.G., the B.P. monitor, and the A.V.V.

    NURSE: Yes. Certainly, Doctor.

    DOCTOR SPENCER: And, uh, get the machine that goes 'ping'.

  9. Re:Didn't I see this before? by FattMattP · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Jesus, this is the FOURTH dupe today alone.

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  10. Hark!.... by mdw2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .... I hear an echo..... really, this is getting guite old :)

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