i personally like netlimiter's free netlimiter 2 monitor. it'll show you your transfers for time periods ranging from hour-by-hour to over the past year and you can also track transfers by each application, so you can see how much is used by web browsing, how much by torrents, how much by WoW, etc.
i don't use sasktel DSL myself. i live in a rural area and use their DOCSIS-based wireless highspeed, which works fine, though it's pretty pricy at $60/month for 2m/256k. kicks the shit out of dial up, satellite, and xplorenet's wireless though.
alternatively, a temporarily solution that's been found is to cap the simultaneous connections limit in your bittorrent client below 100. this problem is well known at sasktel, which is why they started putting the things in bridge mode for all the extreme (highest tier) installs.
the problem is the NAT software basically eating all the memory and it effectively kernel panics, with sometimes interesting results. i saw one instance where doing that would cause it to temporarily toss the bandwidth limiter and make available all possible bandwidth on the line (20-some megabits) for about 20 minutes before it went back to normal.
must be a local thing, as all the 2wire's sasktel uses (the 2700 gateways) come defaulted with WEP. used to be WPA, but too many people complained about it not working with stupid hardware (usually nintendo DS) not working with it.
i've worked with these things (their 2700 gateways). they're great modems (though really really sensitive to surges), but these guys do not know how to design the router side. go above a couple hundred connections, and it crashes it (hitting "refresh all" in the CS server browser will do this almost every time). try to transfer files between wired and wireless (or vise versa) and it slows to a crawl. best idea is put the damn thing in bridge mode and get a real router.
barring HRS-type features and EAX, soundcards are generally soundcards. most any discrete soundcard sounds better than an onboard sound simply by virtue of getting it away from the electrical cacophony on the motherboard surface.
All of this is because FCC has fallen down on the job. Comcast has oversold there network capacity too much. overselling is reasonable. every ISP oversells. the important part is keeping the overselling to a reasonable level. comcast is not doing that, and seems to think that spending $$$ on their throttling gear is cheaper than getting more capacity.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." -H. L. Mencken
i don't think he's referring to current 3-D printers and prototype fabricators and such.
we're talking objects-like-files, star-trek-style replication. right-click, copy, paste, and you've duplicated a car from random atoms, at near-zero cost. post-scarcity.
while this is not feasible now (and it may never be), as he said, it's an interesting path to wonder what would happen if we suddenly did have that capability.
to "use" it, correct. typical tasks (defined as stuff that "typical users" tend to do;)) are highly accessible and a manual shouldn't be needed.
however, to USE it, anything with a depth greater than that of a parking lot puddle needs a manual.
ubuntu is nice in the fact that you can largely start by dipping your toes in the shallow end and move out from there (or not) as one wishes. while at a point one may want to move to a "deeper" distro, you've gained the experience and general know-how needed to comfortably make that jump, rather than having to jump into unknown waters right away.
very early (pre-alpha, i believe) builds of opera and webkit have hit 100/100, and AFAIK, the opera build that does that feat isn't even publicly available. the numbers they're showing are for browsers that are actually available and usable.
1. not to mention not go to the same educational institution or use the same ISP, or live in the same general geographic area as someone who might be distributing copyrighted works without authorization.
2. you're missing the fact that almost every time anyone has lawyered up against them, they speedily drop the suit. that would seem to point to the fact that they're simply throwing lots of lawsuits with minimal or non-existent/inadmissible evidence and hope that they're uninterested in contesting the claims and/or unable to get a lawyer to do so, and simply pay them X thousand dollars to go away.
3. no doubt that what they [the sharers] are (allegedly) doing is illegal under current (US) copyright law. what is at issue is the manner in which they are perusing appears to blatantly violate several other laws regarding legal process. simply because they believe they are perusing people doing something illegal should not give them carte blanche to do whatever they like in the process.
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FYI, that link doesn't work.
i personally like netlimiter's free netlimiter 2 monitor. it'll show you your transfers for time periods ranging from hour-by-hour to over the past year and you can also track transfers by each application, so you can see how much is used by web browsing, how much by torrents, how much by WoW, etc.
i would think it would already prioritize on nearest (in terms of latency) peers as that would be beneficial to transfer rates.
i don't use sasktel DSL myself. i live in a rural area and use their DOCSIS-based wireless highspeed, which works fine, though it's pretty pricy at $60/month for 2m/256k. kicks the shit out of dial up, satellite, and xplorenet's wireless though.
Saskatchewan, Canada. Right between 35 and 50 degrees fahrenheit. Perfect weather for short sleeves and pants, especially in the evening.
And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
i certainly agree with the green on black. intentionally or not, they certainly got ease of reading right back then.
alternatively, a temporarily solution that's been found is to cap the simultaneous connections limit in your bittorrent client below 100. this problem is well known at sasktel, which is why they started putting the things in bridge mode for all the extreme (highest tier) installs.
the problem is the NAT software basically eating all the memory and it effectively kernel panics, with sometimes interesting results. i saw one instance where doing that would cause it to temporarily toss the bandwidth limiter and make available all possible bandwidth on the line (20-some megabits) for about 20 minutes before it went back to normal.
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
hmm. the 2wire boxes i see (2700s) are default WEP, but have the option for WPA and WPA2.
must be a local thing, as all the 2wire's sasktel uses (the 2700 gateways) come defaulted with WEP. used to be WPA, but too many people complained about it not working with stupid hardware (usually nintendo DS) not working with it.
i've worked with these things (their 2700 gateways). they're great modems (though really really sensitive to surges), but these guys do not know how to design the router side. go above a couple hundred connections, and it crashes it (hitting "refresh all" in the CS server browser will do this almost every time). try to transfer files between wired and wireless (or vise versa) and it slows to a crawl. best idea is put the damn thing in bridge mode and get a real router.
barring HRS-type features and EAX, soundcards are generally soundcards. most any discrete soundcard sounds better than an onboard sound simply by virtue of getting it away from the electrical cacophony on the motherboard surface.
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture
they're not a force in the desktop, but unless i'm mistaken, they're pretty big in the embedded sector.
tested for 6 months?
yeah, but DSLreports is reporting that the 2700s and 2701s are vulnerable, so i'm not sure which is correct
anyone know if this affects the 2wire 2700 gateways?
they linked to the winner is last year's contest.
hasn't that capcha been broken already?
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." -H. L. Mencken
i don't think he's referring to current 3-D printers and prototype fabricators and such.
we're talking objects-like-files, star-trek-style replication. right-click, copy, paste, and you've duplicated a car from random atoms, at near-zero cost. post-scarcity.
while this is not feasible now (and it may never be), as he said, it's an interesting path to wonder what would happen if we suddenly did have that capability.
to "use" it, correct. typical tasks (defined as stuff that "typical users" tend to do ;)) are highly accessible and a manual shouldn't be needed.
however, to USE it, anything with a depth greater than that of a parking lot puddle needs a manual.
ubuntu is nice in the fact that you can largely start by dipping your toes in the shallow end and move out from there (or not) as one wishes. while at a point one may want to move to a "deeper" distro, you've gained the experience and general know-how needed to comfortably make that jump, rather than having to jump into unknown waters right away.
very early (pre-alpha, i believe) builds of opera and webkit have hit 100/100, and AFAIK, the opera build that does that feat isn't even publicly available. the numbers they're showing are for browsers that are actually available and usable.
1. not to mention not go to the same educational institution or use the same ISP, or live in the same general geographic area as someone who might be distributing copyrighted works without authorization.
2. you're missing the fact that almost every time anyone has lawyered up against them, they speedily drop the suit. that would seem to point to the fact that they're simply throwing lots of lawsuits with minimal or non-existent/inadmissible evidence and hope that they're uninterested in contesting the claims and/or unable to get a lawyer to do so, and simply pay them X thousand dollars to go away.
3. no doubt that what they [the sharers] are (allegedly) doing is illegal under current (US) copyright law. what is at issue is the manner in which they are perusing appears to blatantly violate several other laws regarding legal process. simply because they believe they are perusing people doing something illegal should not give them carte blanche to do whatever they like in the process.
4. that is being worked on.
also depending on how you define "usefulness".