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Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link?
FuzzyDaddy writes "My company is planning on demonstrating a 2.5 Gigabit per second link to some potential customers in the next few months. Now, we have all the equipment needed to measure how well the link is performing, but we'd like to put together a cheap 'Gee Whiz' demonstration. Surely other /.'ers have put together similar demos in the past. What combination of computers, network adapters, and software have you used to demonstrate high data rate links to potential customers?"
Use it to download a WAV file of a car engine.
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that paris hilton video off emule??
Post a link to it on slashdot and see how long it lasts.
a /. article where comments about a high-res nathalie portman DVD with hot grits are insightfull, interesting, informative & on-topic !
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
You could get it to download all the security patches for XP, it'll take a while but the download rates should be amazing....
Unfortunately, you're going to have to run this 2.6 Gbps link to my apartment before I can show it to you. You see it's on my computer, and it's, um, nailed down. Yeah.... Nailed down... So, just show up tomorrow with the equipment, and we'll really surpise^H^H^H impress those investors!
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Unfortunately you forgot a link.
We'll demonstrate its capacity, or lackof therein, for ya
Hey, pretend like it's 1995 and create your own mall!
-rt
... the bandwidth of a truck full of DVDs
Now, if you could dematerialized said truck in one place and rematerialize it on another, that would be a suitably impressive demonstration of how much bandwidth you system can carry.
make sure that at least 5 dudes are gang-fucking the chick in the porn you are showing. tell them that your connection passes the "5 guy" test (it's an old technical term for link speed that only industry veterans will understand)
Eliminate all the possibilities that something could go wrong and make your company look inept, after all, you know the link works, so just assign a likely-looking IP address to the loopback interface, alias 'ifconfig' to one of your scripts that hides this fact, and voila ! You could even say "hmm.. it's faster than we thought.. we'll have to increase charges accordingly" :-)
"I am not bound to please thee with my answers" [William Shakespeare]
Sure, almost 2 seconds.
If you can apply Huffman encoding to a 2.5 gigabit/s stream, maybe that is something to show off too.
You could do a live install of Win2K while connected and benchmark the incoming worms.
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When my University was showing off its fast long-distance wireless project, to suck students into enrolling, they put a live feed to the monkey cage at the local zoo! Unfortunately it was raining, so the monkeys stayed hidden, and we had a live feed to it raining at the zoo!
bits and peace
Nicholas Daley
Good lord, don't tell me you're one of those people.
a company i worked at thought it was a great idea to stream copies of Episode 1 over the network to show it off. Never mind the fact that it was just released in theaters a few weeks before...
As in "high-quality porn"?
For real. Just say million bytes if you're into powers of 10.
Invite in a Guinness World Records judge and make the demo event a record attempt on 'Most pr0n transferred on airwaves'
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Get someone else to do your homework for you!
Just have www.sco.com point to your testing server
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
"As you can see since issuing the ping -f command www.sco.com is totally inaccesible."
works best if your clients are 13yr old script kiddies.
The internet makes me stupid.
This is too easy, but I can't resist. You're not having very good sex, are you? ;)
Definetly a nice streaming video demonstration will be the best. Persaduate management to buy few DV cameras and stream their data uncompressed (25 Mbps + audio), of, in example, demonstration meeting at one end of demo link to monitor and some cameras at the other end and back. Also you can add some spicy moments by adding a live feed from caffeteria or CEO and his secretary in live. They will be impressed, you will get a few pricy cameras to sell, a lot of new equipment that was required to set up a demonstration (think Sony W900 x6, dual opteirons x 3, Matrox parhelias all around, a lot of firewire cards) and will get at least some additional bonus, so you will have time to think about your job next time, instead of asking such questions in slashdot.
I started running RAID SATA and it's better than sex. Seriously, 300 mb/s throughput?
Seriously, have you ever had sex? I've configured dual-tray 18 spindle raid0+1 on fibre channel and all it was to me was disk storage. But then again, I've had sex with many women.
Load a station wagon with backup tapes and drive it across the parking lot. At the same time, initiate a huge file transfer. Display the transfer results as % of Station wagon loads/ft.
That should be clear as crystal and plenty gee-whiz enough:^)
My old sig was REALLY stoopid.
it's easy yes, but by god you're right to say it :)
2.5 Gbps link: $(undisclosed)
MyDoom.A (22,528 bytes): free
2.5 Gbps / 22,528 byes = 110,973 viruses per second.
Wiping SCO of the face of the net: priceless
"It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix
Show them how you can download the entire Internet in about an hour.
If what you are reading sounds funny, or sarcastic, lame, or stupid
it is because it is supposed to be. just laugh
But there are certian older models of Cisco gigabit switches that catch fire if you run them full load for long enough. Perhaps you can find one of them and let out the magic smoke...
Time machine? Great idea!
Here's the plan: Set up little script to email yourself in about ten minutes. Then start the demonstration. Conclude by stating that the speed of the connection is so high, that the interfrequency lightwave convergence effect results in small but measurable relativistic effects.
Prove this by checking your email across the link, where you have an email dated five minutes into the future! Sure enough, five minutes later, the email comes in on your other computer.
...
With such a bandwith, I would consider teleportation.
Nah, a video demo won't impress them.
... sweet ...
Instead, case mod the equipment,throw in a lot of leds and stuff and go on the mystical tour.
customer: So, how fast is it?
you: This is state of the art equipment
you: (pause)
you: no demo would do it justice....
customer: (looking at all the lights)
Run a DoS against www.sco.com...go on, you know you want to.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Back in Napster's hey-day, I knew of a guy who, when answering the phone to customers, would ask them what their favourite song was and then try and pull it off Napster while he was talking to them. Napster + 10Mbit internet connection + a cable from line-out into the phone system, and 80% of the time customers on hold would find themselves listening to their favourite song. Now *that's* a neat bandwidth demo :)
-- Open Source: It's mad, but you don't have to work here to help.
18 spindle?! Fibre?
Say it again, I'm nearly there!
Just let clients privately surf the web for a little while. They'll be amazed that their porn loads so quickly, and then they'll be sold.
Point your test at http://www.thescogroup.com.
They've spent the last few weeks re-engineering the site to handle some unusually high throughput.