The Fast Network at Work

Aw, crap! Now I've got to work late again so's I can afford the extra therapy for my tech envy that that post just set off.

Why not 2.6?

That is badass.

what kind of name is "autopsy"?

shouldn't your machine be named after a disease?

We ran out of diseases.

My laptop is named "foobar" when it's on the Yahoo network. Of course, I named it myself. :-)

That puts almost every connection to shame :)

Once, after dropping a gig card into a machine in our cage at GlobalCenter (many moons ago), I got like 14 or 15MB/s. But back then, the kernels were <30MB, so I didn't think it was accurate.

Whoops, silly me, forgot to escape the <.

...back then, kernels were less than 30MB, so I didn't really think it was an accurate speed.

jweissig@digital:/home/jweissig > wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/...
--09:24:24-- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/...
=> `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29,837,818 [application/x-bzip2]

100%[====================================>] 29,837,818 475.11K/s ETA 00:00

09:25:42 (475.11 KB/s) - `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2' saved [29837818/29837818]

hows that for home cable :)

justin@valiant:/home/justin$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
--11:33:51-- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
=> `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29,837,818 [application/x-bzip2]

100%[====================================>] 29,837,818 3.83M/s ETA 00:00

11:33:59 (3.83 MB/s) - `linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2' saved [29837818/29837818]

Hrm, you win.

Unrelated..

is it just me or are there too many Justin's? :P

haha, i did not think so till i met the internet.. i know like only one other person who is named justin in real life.

hey, justin.. what type of net connection do you have?

Time to turn the comments into a mockery? :P Sorry "Zawodny", your now a forum! :P

Well, Justin, that's actually a GigE line to WilTel :P

Actually, best I ever got was from the Argonne National Library ftp server (mysql mirror). I was seeing 11MB/s...so my 40MB download took just under four seconds.

I'm with ya--sometimes technology is a baaad thing.

with a connection as fast as that , downloading pr0n must get boring after a while.