Didn’t think backblaze would cause 360 to lag online when limited to under 40 kb/s. Transmission is idle, not uploading anything, just open. Could be the router slowing down. Doesn’t really look like comcast is up to the task of backing up all my data over the internet. Maybe if they ever provide better speeds it will be.
Blackblaze is out of beta now, so I’m trying it. Get 15 days free, probably not enough to backup all my data. If this thing makes me lag while playing 360 online, then I won’t be paying for it. Probably will make me lag, stupid comcast.
Update
Somebody on twitter said to cap upload since it’ll probably make it lag. I think that’s what the “Throttle” does, move it closer to faster network, and hopefully that means backblaze will use less bandwidth, and leave more for everything else. Could always setup QOS, but to lazy, and I think that worked anyways. At first I moved the throttle to faster uploads, and my network monitor said I was uploading at around 60 KB/s, and nows its staying under 40 KB/s, shouldn’t lag now. Oh yeah using the network monitor that comes with iStat menus.
Oh yeah the only bad thing is, it looks like I’ll have to do a new complete backup when I get a new mac. Another good reason not to buy a new mac, or I could just wait till I get a new mac to buy backblaze. That might be the best solution.
I was right about the throttle thing, just look at their speed test page. Hmm maybe I should move it backup to the default…
“A connection of 6998 kbps upload would backup:
73807 MB in a day”
Stupid power boost. That fast upload only lasts for a short time. I think it use to only be for downloads though.
Doesn’t look like comcast is going to hide the limit anymore, lucky this month a little under 100 GB for total bandwidth, I know because I use dd-wrt on my linksys WRT54G.
To bad comcast is a dick, and can’t afford to upgrade their network, for the future.
“This wouldn’t be necessary if Comcast had chosen to expand its capacity,†said Michael Shames, executive director of the Utility Consumers’ Action Network in San Diego. “They’ve chosen instead to degrade service.â€Â
Thanks comcast, or shitcast, or comcrap, or fuckcast. Anyhow, you will never be given any of my money.
Hmm I wonder if comcast, will increase the price of their internet. Hmm we might have to switch to dial up, if it goes over $50 a month. Comcast already has a hidden bandwidth limit, I suppose they might have different plans soon, with different bandwidth limits, be bad news for those who use peer to peer applications. Or rapidshare.
Hmm the uptime for my computer is over 1 day, and only 3.80 GB gigs of in bandwidth, and 4.95 gigs of out bandwidth. Oh yeah iStat menus tells me all that info.
That’s only for my computer though, not sure what the total bandwidth used is.
Ahh for this month so far, the router says 117819 MB, which is about 115 GB for incoming bandwidth. Outing bandwidth is 24352 MB, which is about 24 GB.
Looks like we would be paying a lot of money, if they start doing that.
In June the incoming bandwidth was 59946 MB, which is about 58 GB. Outgoing was 5435 MB, which is around 5 GB.
Got to love the custom DD-WRT firmware.
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSK, CMCSA), the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, today announced it is increasing upstream speeds nationally for its Performance and Performance Plus residential high-speed Internet customers at no additional cost. Comcast will nearly triple the upload speed of its 6 Mbps / 384 Kbps Performance tier to 6 Mbps / 1 Mbps and more than double the upload speed of its 8 Mbps / 768 Kbps Performance Plus tier to 8 Mbps / 2 Mbps.
Quote directly from comcast.com. Was wondering why uploading a big file got faster, needed some answers. Takes a little over 8 minutes to upload a file around 60 MB. That should speed bittorrent up. Can have a bigger upload limit. Could try a limit of 60 KB, for testing, instead of a limit of 20 KB.
Hmm now I could mirror some 100+ MB files, without having to wait days, for it to upload.
Hmm filezilla isn’t uploading big files to good. Need a different program. Going to try transmit, because most free ftp programs for the mac, I don’t like. Want to try something different, if I like it I’ll need somebody to donate me $30, haha.
I’ll settle for cyberduck, good enough free ftp program.
Doing good so far, only have until tomorrow. Downloaded 20182 MB worth of data from them so far. Internet seems kind of slow, downloading 6 files at a time. I’m only downloading legal files. Hopefully comcast doesn’t terminate our internet for using to much bandwidth, the limit they have is unknown, they don’t advertise it. They might be throttling us. Don’t want to extend account, because then I’ll have more of a chance of getting our internet terminated.
If our internet gets terminated, I blame my uncle.
Oh yeah I went to the movie theater today and saw Iron Man with my uncle, its a pretty good movie.
I need a better internet connection, comcast is slow.
No more windows or sabayon on it, I wiped it clean, and put mythbuntu on it. Finally got the picture to look right, made the screen resolution 640×480. Now I only need an ir blaster, or a tuner with a ir blaster, so it can change the channel on the cable box. With comcast you can tell it to read a show, all it does is change the channel for you, but then you also have to set it to read in mythtv. Kind of a pain, setting it to record two times. My tuner did have a ir blaster, but the crappy cable broke. Kind of want a pchdtv card, it supports digital tv. Only problem is I don’t have any money, so I won’t be buying anything.
If you want free tv guide data for mythtv, then you can follow my how to here.
Everex is making a CloudBook, which will be sold at walmart.com on 1/25/08, which will sell for $399. It uses a via processor and has a 30 GB hard drive.
1.2GHz, VIA C7®-M Processor ULV, 512MB DDR2 533MHz, SDRAM, 30GB Hard Disk Drive, 7″ WVGA TFT Display (800 x 480), VIA UniChrome Pro IGP Graphics, VIA High-Definition Audio, 802.11b/g, (1) 10/100 Ethernet Port, (1) DVI-I Port, (2) USB 2.0 Ports, (1) 4-in1 Media Card Reader, (1) 1.3MP Webcam, (1) Headphone/Line-Out Port, (1) Microphone/Line-In Port, (1) Set of Stereo Speaker, (1) Touchpad, (1) 4-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery
Found out about that on eeeuser.com, and they had a link to their new site cloudbooker.com.
Downloading gOS, the operating system the CloudBook will use. Downloading from bittorrent is to slow, thanks to comcast.
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gOS is based on ubuntu 7.10, it uses e17 for the window manager. I like the look of gOS compared to the OS on the asus eee pc, hell install gOS on the asus eee pc. If you go to run command, you can type in xterm, and run xterm, if you need a terminal. It already has the synaptic package manager installed.
I like the channel Feel Good TV on Miro, but the only problem is the shows download by bittorrent. One episode downloaded after many tries. Then I tried to download another and it didn’t work, so I did a search on google, and found this. Then one of the comments mentioned your-freedom.net, which you can use for free 6 hours a day, 18 hours a week. I setup openvpn, I followed their instructions. Then I was wondering what would happen if I start downloading it and then stop the openvnp program, well then the download speed went down, and then it went up, and then it finished downloading. So I tried it again, and it didn’t work. I hate comcast. Maybe you have to let it download a certain amount through your-freedom, or I was just lucky. They don’t care if you use their service for file sharing, as long as you don’t use a US server to do so, or any other servers that say don’t use it for that. To bad you can’t configure a proxy with miro, that’s why you have to use openvpn. Could always use a different bittorrent program.
You might be able to use anoNet as a proxy for bittorrent, as it uses openvpn.
Hmm using azarus you can make it use a proxy for only the tracker, doing a speed test with encryption and the tracker proxy might of fixed it.
Use tor as a proxy for bittorrent (Says how to use it only for the tracker, and for downloading and uploading.)
You can get the classic interface in the latest version of azureus by going to options and clicking Interface and then start and then clicking show by display azureus UI chooser. Might have to be in advance mode to see it.
Download Feeel Good TV episode 20 (Not newest but funny.)
Update
Using a tor proxy for the tracker only and encryption seems to have fixed the downloading problem. I don’t think I can seed or upload though. But at least I can download at 500+ KB.
Encrypt bittorrent traffic
Use tor as a proxy for only tracker communication
I’m in the process of uploading tremulous maps, will take a while, only uploading the maps I have. The biggest map I have is around 20 MB, and my upload speed sucks, thanks to comcast. Could upload it faster on dsl, when we had dsl, the upload speed was 90+ KB, while its around 50 KB with comcast. But the download speed is better with comcast. You can get a better upload speed with comcast, if you upgrade to the business plan. Oh yeah I get around 200+ KB for the first 5 MB I upload, then it slows down to around 50 KB or less. So the speed is fine for files that aren’t bigger then 5 MB. If you just finished uploading a file through ftp, then you should reconnect to the ftp server, so disconnect then connect, so the next upload will have the fast speed for the first 5 MB. Well you can probably upload 5 1 MB files, at the better speed, but eventually it’ll be slow, if you’re uploading a lot of files. So I’m only uploading one file at a time, then disconnecting, depending on the size of the file.
You might have to disconnect, and then wait, to reconnect. Since comcast is an ass.
Cool comcast made uploading better, now I don’t have to limit the upload speed, they cancel the upload for me, then it comes back, and then cancels again. My uncle might not like this, but I don’t use bittorrent very often, so I don’t care.
Comcast Tries To Sterilize, Decapitate BitTorrent
Youtube blows “Rejected (length of video is too long)”. Probably because its an ogg video.
“All videos uploaded to YouTube have a 100MB file size limit. The longer the video is, the more compression will be required to fit it into that size. For that reason, most videos on YouTube are under five minutes long and there is a 10-minute length limit for all videos.”
The video is around 2 minutes, youtube is a dumbass, they can’t determine the length of the video.
Solution use tinypic.
Update
Changed port, might work now.
Was released two days ago. To bad wordpress isn’t immune to security problems. Then I wouldn’t have to upgrade it. Since I don’t have a dedicated server, I can just do wget, and then untar it over the existing one. I hacve to upload it, with my crappy upload speed, thanks comcast. I have to upgrade three sites, that’s why its a pain. I don’t have to upgrade the ds, but I doubt my uncle will. Since it fixes security holes, a script kiddie, would be able to “hack” it or script kiddie it I should say. Make that four sites, I forgot one.
Wait I wouldn’t get the full speed. Because my hard drive, can’t write at 40 GB a second, neither my laptop or desktop. So I’d have to have a super fast hard drive. But at least it would be better then comcast. Comcast only gives you like 6 MB.
Download Speed: 7834 kbps (979.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 808 kbps (101 KB/sec transfer rate)
Hmmm I did read on their site, that they have some turbo thing, that temporary increases the speed. For 10 MB of the file I think. Its called power boost. Look at comcast’s site. It upps the speed to 12 MB, but it doesn’t say anything about uploading. It says for the first 10 MB of the file it boosts the download speed. Now to try and upload a big file to my site, and see what happens. Use part files, to take advantage of the service. Its less then 10 MB for uploading files, as it just went down to the 43 KB/sec. So if you’re uploading stuff make the part files 5 MB, unless you have the 8 MB service, which I believe gives you a better upload speed. Doesn’t bittorrent download files in parts? Hmmm maybe azureus will implant something to take advantage of comcast’s power boost.
Using San Francisco’s server on Speakeasy, I get the below:
Download Speed: 11783 kbps (1472.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 995 kbps (124.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
LA on speakeasy I get the below:
Download Speed: 9470 kbps (1183.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 934 kbps (116.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Was going to take out the commercials of my tv shows I record, but I can’t edit them, because windows movie maker doesn’t support mpeg 2 files. It supports mpeg 1 files I think. The reason was so they would be compatible with the xbox 360 without converting them again. So I’m using the xvid codec for it and virtual dub mpeg 2. The official virtual dub doesn’t support mpeg 2 files. Can’t save back to a mpeg 2 file either. The program that came with my tuner doesn’t work right, I only want to edit the file once. It came free with my tuner, but you have to pay for the upgrade. If I could do a direct stream copy for the video in virtual dub, then it wouldn’t take so long. Rather skip through the commercials. Takes way to long to compress it. To bad I can’t find any programs that’ll do what I want for free.
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Post thats to funny. They really should of used the dictionary… Yeah I’m going to try comcast’s news server. See what they have. To bad the limit is 2 gigs per month, resets on the 25 of every month.
But I didn’t want to download 3 gigs worth of data, for the dvd version. 5 cds is just as bad. Downloading ubuntu 64 bit, going to put it on other hard drive. Its only 700 MB, and downloading at 859 kb/sec rather then 400 kb/sec. Nice speed for comcast, usually only get 400 kb/sec. But I guess some servers have enough bandwidth to give me more. Once I was downloading at over 1,000 kb/sec stable. That was on a server for enemy terrioty, downloading maps or something.
Update
It only took 15 minutes to download. Burning it now.
Update
In ubuntu now, need to download the smp kernel first. Which its doing right now. Then i’ll mess with xgl and compiz or whatever its called.
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