Shamus_McFartfinger

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/commo...5E36375,00.html

I found a setting like this the other day. Changing it from CPU to THROUGHPUT just killed the connection. (Which I thought was weird). Not as yet. I'm reluctant to change too much incase I screw it up. A default config (with a button) for these things would be nice. I have found out something though, it's bloody hard to get a definitive answer on how fast gigabit should actually be across a LAN. I'm wondering if I can tweak the packet sizes somewhere. It's gotta be in the registry. 8k packets would give me 40MB/sec according to that Netio thingy.

The failure you see above is just me not inputting the correct command for Netio. If I disable NETBIOS, my network dissapears.

Just did a quick test with a tool I found called NETIO. http://freshmeat.net/projects/netio/ There's something peculiar about all this.

Thanks anyway. Looks like I'll be Googling to try and find out what's limiting it's speed. How can a person easily get 5MB/sec using TBase100 and not get 40MB/sec when there's 10x the bandwidth? It's a strange one.

Just added that key to the registry on 2 machines and changed the values of all to FF. No performance gain though. Sigh.

I use cat6 here. I replaced my leads when I bought the switch. Just checked my speeds using a crossover cable and they were the same as using my switch. Odd. I thought it would be faster. *shrug* That regkey above, wouldn't it also work with XP? Pipelines are pipelines afterall. Have you noticed any performance gains?

I haven't because it's such a pain in the arse to climb around behind my desk with leads and shit everywhere. I don't suppose I really have a choice though, huh? I'll have a crack at it later (just finished work an hour ago). I get the same sort of speeds you do. I'll try a crossover later and get back to you.

Sorry for the delay. Been busy as hell for the last couple of days........... You're talking about attenuation. That's packet loss, not packet collision. Nice try though. That's not the problem. Any other ideas?

Snazz! Where ya been? How's W.O.W. going?

General settings for ImgTool? The best place to ask (not that we don't know ) is the ImgTool forums. CouJo will be all too happy to help. Great bloke. Tell him I said "Hi!" I might drop into the ImgTool forums myself (it's been a while) and ask me ol' mate CouJo if he can implement a change to his program that calls ImgBurn instead of DVD Decrypter for burning. That is, of course, if someone hasn't already beaten me to it. Lightning - Talked to CouJo lately?

That's an ugly looking fella on the right.

Ah! A tweaker! LOL!! Seriously though, ASPI is mainly there for compatibility with 98/Me. Stick with SPTI (or ElbyCDIO or Patin-Couffin) for reliability.

That's what I suspected. I had a debate with an expert yesterday (I'm only a dumb forklift driver) regarding this very topic. All of my PCs have gigabit NICs. They connect to a 16-port gigabit switch (a DLink DGS-1016D if that matters) and my speeds across the network suck. On a good day, maybe 25megs/sec. Usually less. Obviously, network traffic, CPU, HDs and all that other crap has an effect on throughput. Trouble is that I outfitted these things under the impression that I'd get blistering network speeds, read/write speeds of HDs dependent. Even copying from a high speed RAID drive to a SATA drive (both running in AMD64s) doesn't give me the performance I expected. Is it a case of "stiff shit" or can the performance be optimised? Can something be tweaked? Opinions? Abuse?

Like what one? You mean this?

Guys (and experts in particular), I'm after some help with networking. What I need to know is how to increase throughput speed over a network (if it's possible) by decreasing packet collisions (if there are any). Will a dedicated server on a domain alleviate packet collisions? If I need to run a server, what the hell is my gigabit switch doing? Afterall, it's supposed to route packets efficiently. Kirk, I'm looking in your direction. Any help? Anyone?

Just to add to Lightning_UK's post (sorry, Boss), it polls to check for a newer version. It can't check for a new version without first checking if a connection is available. As the Big Fella pointed out above, ImgBurn does that by checking 1 of 3 of the largest (and most reliable) sites there is and if it finds a connect, it then polls the ImgBurn server and checks for a newer version. 'Tis all.

I was unaware Lightning's real name was Arthur.

As far as I'm aware it should work but I might be just having a blonde moment. I have to ask why you'd want to though. The native driver for win2k/XP (SPTI) works just fine. The ElbyCDIO.device (available with the demo version of CloneDVD) is a good alternative if things aren't working properly using SPTI. What seems to be the problem?

Weird, mate. Let us know how you go, huh?

Yeah. The problem was that the Cane Toad (Bufo Marinus and don't ask me why I know that), just can't jump high enough to get to where the beetles nest. It's one of the biggest clusterfucks this country has seen. They're in plague proportions here in Queensland. Try this link if you've got 5 minutes to waste. You might find it amusing. www.cane-toad.com

Just incase you didn't find it, here's a quick snap of what it looks like next to a rather familiar icon..

http://www.wfmynews2.com/watercooler/artic...x?storyid=50512 A scientific experiment turned into a very long rat race of trying to catch the critter. Undated -- It seemed like a good idea. Let a lone rat loose on a rodent-free island and then figure out how to kill it. That way, when other islands are invaded by rats, you'll know what to do. Scientists figured they'd trap this foot-long varmint in no time. Eighteen weeks later, they finally trapped it with some fresh penguin bait. On another island. Rodents are a problem just about everywhere. In New Zealand, at least 11 islands have been invaded by Norway rats since 1980, in each case after rats from earlier invasions had been eradicated. The invaders disrupt local ecosystems. In the new study, a Norway rat was originally lured into a trap with chocolate. Its DNA was recorded, and the rat was outfitted with a radio collar and set free on the tiny island of Motuhoropapa off the coast of New Zealand. With no rats to compete with, the test subject traversed the entire island for about four weeks before settling on a home range, data from the radio collar showed. For the next four weeks, conventional rat-trapping techniques were employed, snap traps, live traps and waxed devices, without success. After 10 weeks, the radio signal was lost. Then the researchers found rat feces on the island of Otata, 1,300 feet away across the open ocean. The DNA was a match, confirming a suspicion scientists had, that rats were good swimmers. The elusive creature had made the longest confirmed open-water crossing of any rodent in history. Different methods were used on Otata: buried traps, peanut butter, poison and even trained dogs. Not until more than four months after its release was the rat finally killed, in a trap baited with fresh penguin. The scientists, led by James Russell at the University of Auckland, sagely conclude that conventional methods didn't work well. They also have an idea why: Being alone, the rat didn't behave as it would have in a rat-infested city; and with no competition for food, the bait was less attractive than it otherwise would have been. The results are detailed in the Oct. 20 issue of the journal Nature. "Our results may help in the design of conservation strategies to keep islands free of invasive rodents," the researchers write.

Using 1.58 also. Can't say that I've seen the problem you're having..... with either of my 109s or with that old program. The problem is intermittent?

Well, instead of selecting an image and then burning it, then selecting another image and burning it - the queue feature allows you to select a bunch of images to be burned one after another. In the picture above from my previous post you can see 6 images selected. All I have to do to burn all 6 is just keep feeding disks into the drive. Once an image is burned, take the disk out and throw in another one for ImgBurn to continue. It's a snappy feature.