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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?"
Post a link to it on slashdot and see how long it lasts.
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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!
"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.
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 :)
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)
How about they setup a web server with some pretty looking 3D realtime http stat program that can stream its output as video.
Then post the site's address on Slashdot.
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 :)
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