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Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Kieran on March 06, 2001, 09:36:00 PM
Buffer says it all. The last few days have been awful on my end. Must be a backbone down somewhere I don't know about...
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: sshh on March 06, 2001, 09:43:00 PM
Unfortunately you are not alone. Where are you connecting from ?
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Animal on March 06, 2001, 09:48:00 PM
shut up newby  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: easymo on March 06, 2001, 10:17:00 PM
 Whine, whine, whine.
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: bloom25 on March 07, 2001, 01:26:00 AM
Yeah, it's been pretty bad alright.  Tonight was probably the worst night for me in months.  My net status showed flat, but I guess there was some packet loss somewhere.  I started off in a fight with a p38 that ended up warping like crazy when he began to turn.  His wingy got me pretty quickly after I overshot him.  Next sortie I ended up shooting down a zero, but I collided with part of it and we both got kills on each other.  My last sortie was in an la5 and this time I got behind a yak and saw about 8 or 9 flashes all to his tail.  Smoke started pouring out, and pieces fell off.  Right before it went down I got discoed.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)  That was enough for me for the night.  Obviously somewhere here in Oregon there is something wrong with the net.



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Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Kieran on March 07, 2001, 06:11:00 AM
Coming from Bedford, IN. Things seem ok until I look at the net status- looked like Dick Cheany's EKG.

Shaddap, Easy-'MO!  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: LJK Raubvogel on March 07, 2001, 06:13:00 AM
Something is definitely wrong. Folks warping like crazy. Check my net status and do a ping, checks out ok. Past 2 nights been seeing people warp from 500ft in front of me to 700ft behind me. Watched a Lanc warp about 3k,  spraying me all the way. Must be a backbone overloaded somewhere.
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Westy on March 07, 2001, 08:19:00 AM
 No Kieran. I'm suffering too. But I think my isp is going down the toilet  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)

 -Westy
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Kieran on March 07, 2001, 08:45:00 AM
Ok, I feel better (I think!)... misery loves company and all that rot.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Think I will lay out a few days and see what happens- whined a lot on open last night, a good sign it's time for a break...
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: easymo on March 07, 2001, 12:06:00 PM
 Why is it, Kieran is the only one that gets my sense of humor. It really, worries me sometimes.
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Dowding on March 07, 2001, 12:36:00 PM
Me too.

I live in the UK, and my ping time usually rests about the 250ms mark.

I just checked my ping time and I discovered something truly awful: "The Sprintlink of Doom"(TM). Skuzzy always says this not a good thing to have.

Alt-route looks even worse tonight (750 ms). Looks like no AH again.
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Skuzzy on March 07, 2001, 12:41:00 PM
You can thank the Napster nuts and the media for the connections folks.

The media made yet another annoucement this morning about Napster, so I expect the connections will be pretty sloppy.

I will bo sooooo glad when Napster is dead.

<If I could figure how to get my Lanc over those bastiages,..I would solve 90% of all of the Internet problems  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)>

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skuzzy@applink.net


[This message has been edited by Skuzzy (edited 03-07-2001).]
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Moose11 on March 07, 2001, 01:16:00 PM
Is that true - how much bandwith (as a percentage of the entire internet?) do Napster and it's users take up?

5%? 10%?

edit - the founder of Napster, Shawn Fanning, lived about 30 miles away from me. He's the Cape Cod hero of programming!

[This message has been edited by Moose11 (edited 03-07-2001).]
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Voss on March 07, 2001, 01:17:00 PM
Verio has been spiking really bad recently.

Has everyone gone through the suggestions over at tweak3D.net? I dropped another 50ms off my ping by adjusting the network properties in Win98.

Destroy all WinModems!  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Voss on March 07, 2001, 01:20:00 PM
 
Quote
Originally posted by Moose11:
Is that true - how much bandwith (as a percentage of the entire internet?) do Napster and it's users take up?

Think of Dallas. How many people in Dallas connect to Napster? We all have to contend with local traffic there. They're soaking us!

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Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Wardog on March 07, 2001, 01:20:00 PM
Your not alone.

For the last 4 days ive had unusual things happening to me in the air. I was b17 and an La5 came under my 6, watch him at 240 behind me and i let lose. Every bullet went through his plane, Every single one. No hits..

This has also been happening in fighter AC i was flying, 300 dead 6 shot, and bullets went right through them with no hits.

Net status showed everything was fine.Gets frustrating when T&Bing with Spits that should be dead, but fly through guns..

Dog out.....
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Ripsnort on March 07, 2001, 01:22:00 PM
"Since our move to North Carolina, our connect times have improved..so if you are experiencing any connect problems, it must be your ISP.."


oops, wrong sim!  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Kieran on March 07, 2001, 01:49:00 PM
Wardog-

That is exactly what I am seeing. Unload inside 500 gets squat.

I do thank the respondants today, that really does clarify things for me a lot. I figured something big must be happening on the net that I didn't know about.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: mrfish on March 07, 2001, 03:28:00 PM
me to okieran - since 1.05 was rleased it has been very unstable. just got dsl though and seems a little more stable but hard to tell
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Skuzzy on March 07, 2001, 05:27:00 PM
Let's see, in a recent 24 hour period, Napster was told to have moved around 20 million files.
What's the average size of those things?  1MB?  That's around 1 million MB's a hour of data over the Internet.

Does not take a rocket scientist to figure out why the Internet has been a shambles.

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President, AppLink Corp.
http://www.applink.net
skuzzy@applink.net
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Lephturn on March 07, 2001, 05:33:00 PM
Nah, Mp3's are much bigger.  2-8 Megs is a nice range.  I'd say an average would be about 4 Megs, being conservative.  Most of mine are around 5 Megs and change.

Works out to about 926 Megs PER SECOND.  Wow.

Die Napster DIE!

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Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: Skuzzy on March 07, 2001, 06:56:00 PM
I had no idea they were that big.  Sheesh.  No wonder the Internet has been running slower than molasses that been sitting outside at the North Pole for a week.

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Roy "Skuzzy" Neese
President, AppLink Corp.
http://www.applink.net
skuzzy@applink.net
Title: Ugh. Am I the only one with bad connects lately?
Post by: sshh on March 07, 2001, 07:04:00 PM
May be it explains weird stuff happened to me in last 4-5 days like being killed right after takeoff by some guy who is not even logged in AH and with pure green clear sector on radar. Also I was getting about 5 disconnects every evening these days. Normally I have at most one disco per week if HTC does not plays with the servers.