I just tested mine on speedtest.net:
You can see the farther east I try to go, the lower my bandwidth clocks in at, due to having to pass through more of the country. Also, my top bandwidth is higher than I thought it would be: it seems road runner implemented bursting to 14mbits a while ago and I forgot about it.
Also, this is the related pingtest result:
Not bad. In terms of latency to the CoH server farms:
(East Coast)
C:\>tracert -d 216.107.248.3
Tracing route to 216.107.248.3 over a maximum of 30 hops
13 139 ms 144 ms 148 ms 69.28.171.233
14 * * * Request timed out.
(West Coast)
C:\>tracert -d 216.107.240.3
Tracing route to 216.107.240.3 over a maximum of 30 hops
8 69 ms 68 ms 68 ms 63.218.51.117
9 * * * Request timed out.
(I have, of course, knocked out the early hops with close proximity to my IP address)
My choice of Triumph as my home server way back when was not ideal, although I have never felt a desire to change that.
(Triumph, choice of the people who joined a couple weeks after launch and clicked the one on the top).
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When I test for ping locally (less than 100 miles) I get 18 and when I test my ping out to Virginia where the CoH east coast servers are I repeatedly get
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I used the SpeedTest for the following numbers. Used 4 Server Cities, and ran 3 tests to each. Clarksville, TN...Atlanta, GA...San Fran, CA...L.A., CA.
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The main thing to remember is to always take the Last Train to Clarksville.
(the kids will actually have to look this up to get it.
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Just FYI,
See the words "Forum Link" in the test window? If you click on that, a link to the image of your test results will be copied to your clipboard, and you can paste that into the forums instead of screencapping and uploading to photobucket (its what I did).
Just in case you didn't notice.
And 42ms is a very good round trip travel time.
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Just FYI,
See the words "Forum Link" in the test window? If you click on that, a link to the image of your test results will be copied to your clipboard, and you can paste that into the forums instead of screencapping and uploading to photobucket (its what I did). Just in case you didn't notice. And 42ms is a very good round trip travel time. |
It would probably be much faster too but between this thread my "New Artz" and "Thankyou Artz"
threads and "The Hot Pencil" I have probably close to 100 images capped, hosted and linked to here so I can pretty much do it in my sleep now lol.
Besides I wanted that bit on the left that says "an excellent result" anyway.
I kinda always knew I had really good connections and pings as people bringing their pc's here
for LAN parties always commented how much faster they connected... but it's nice to see it confirmed thanks.
Speaking of images I have a few more to post up of the NatrixPC (what I've taken to calling Pyro's new gaming rig
) and some more behind the scenes stuff too. With the side off
With the side on and showing the Natrix Case Artz
And another angle on the Radeon HD5850 Pyro Edtion card
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With the side on and showing the Natrix Case Artz
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The two words that popped into my head were "Practiced Brawler." Apparently I've played SR long enough to wear a groove into my brain.
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I AM SOOOO JEALOUS !!!! I think after taxes in 2011 I may order one now. If not for myself, for Barron cause his PC is C R A P !!!
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Is that not the coolest VidCard EVER!!!!
I actually spent yesterday traveling the zones...sightseeing. There's so much to see and appreciate when you've played the game for 5 years on a crappy computer, and lower than the lowest settings. I spent about 10 minutes just kicking leaves around on the ground in Perez Park. It's also nice to see from warwall to warwall, and we need to do something about the polution in Kings Row. I'd never seen the smoke coming out of the smokestacks like that. Seriously...O-zone people! |
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*waves hand* you WILL get a new computer for Barron. I'm sick of him DCing/being unable to run vent and mids while we're teaming.
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I AM SOOOO JEALOUS !!!! I think after taxes in 2011 I may order one now. If not for myself, for Barron cause his PC is C R A P !!!
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Everything is on the new computer...and thx for the external hard drive. I can fill it (actually I can't even come close to filling that bad boy) without bogging down the internal program hard drive...right?
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Your hard drives were setup with the following in mind.
Speed: The Solid State Drive is as fast as it comes for storage right now and of all the SSD's the vertex is one of the very best... yeah it's only 60GB but it's meant for just your Operating System, games like CoH, and any apps you want accelerated like your image editing stuff. It also has no moving parts whatsoever so there is no lag while the spindle winds up or the head seeks, there is also no noise (nothing moving= totally silent) and very little power draw or heat produced.
Storage space: This is where your 2nd drive comes in it's one of the faster mechanical drives on the market (the SSD you have is still more than 3x faster) but it's main purpose is space... and lots of it. At 640GB it's more than most people can fill ever (the exception being tons of video like full length movies, camcorder footage or episodes of tv shows... or the mother of all pr0n collections lol). It will easily hold all your music, apps (the ones you don't care to accelerate), documents, pictures and downloads and still have plenty of room to spare. In case you did decide to use it for video it will hold about 800 hours of standard definition (depending on what codecs are used of course) or about 75 hours of HD video.
Redundancy: I know you had problems with your old drive (the click of death) so I wanted to be sure nothing would happen like that with your new system. I went about it as a two pronged approach. First I tested your two hard drives exhaustively with low level bit by bit scans that took days to complete (I had time while waiting for other parts to arrive) to make sure there were no flaws from the manufacturer and then I made you an external backup system. It's an enclosure I bought with a 1TB hard drive I chose for reliability (more so than speed) installed within. At 1TB or 1,000 Gigabytes of storage space you can easily back up your 60GB SSD your 640HDD and even your wife's notebook drive whatever size it is (as long as she doesn't have more than 300GB filled up with stuff) to this one monster drive which would sit external to your system and be switched off most of the time. By being separated from your systems and switched off it is unaffected by any problems your other drives (or your wife's drive) may run into and if anything should happen to your system (say one of your drives dies on you 5 years from now or you get a really bad virus) you just buy a replacement and put it in your tower and then flip on the 1TB external and load up the most recent backup and your up and running like nothing happened in a matter of hours rather that weeks or months trying to remember, restore or recreate everything you lost from scratch. With that kind of redundancy you can relax and not worry about the click of doom or your data again.
I suggest you look into a good backup strategy/app/and make at least one full backup (everything on the drives) when everything is still new & minty fresh and then make regular, like once a week, incremental backups (just saves the new data you created that week not the contents of the whole drive) and that way worse case scenario you can only lose what ever data was made since the last incremental backup (1-7 days worth of stuff).
This setup actually covers what you stated in your question... stuff you want really fast goes on the SSD and stuff you want to store goes on the big HDD and that way no matter how full your storage drive gets it won't "bog down" your system drive which will stay lightening fast... of course with no moving parts nothing will really bog down your SSD anyways but there you have it.
You can of course just use the 1TB for extra storage that doesn't affect the system and try to fill it if you choose to (yeah good luck on that lol).
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I AM SOOOO JEALOUS !!!! I think after taxes in 2011 I may order one now. If not for myself, for Barron cause his PC is C R A P !!!
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Yeah I'm sure it would be "just for Barron" until the day you realized how much much it pwns then it would be wrestle war from then on out for who got to use the new machine haha... I'd make popcorn and sell tickets.
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Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
Talk to CR about what you're looking for...he's great to work with, knows way too much about computers, and delivers on his promise. I couldn't have gotten this computer in a store, nor have the story to tell about it.
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*waves hand* you WILL get a new computer for Barron. I'm sick of him DCing/being unable to run vent and mids while we're teaming.
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Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
Is that not the coolest VidCard EVER!!!!
I actually spent yesterday traveling the zones...sightseeing. There's so much to see and appreciate when you've played the game for 5 years on a crappy computer, and lower than the lowest settings. I spent about 10 minutes just kicking leaves around on the ground in Perez Park. It's also nice to see from warwall to warwall, and we need to do something about the polution in Kings Row. I'd never seen the smoke coming out of the smokestacks like that. Seriously...O-zone people! |
Also try turning on super speed and jumping up and down in a trash barrel.
P.S. Yeah it gets my vote for coolest card ever (but then I'm biased lol) I mean come on how many people have a personal edition videocard with custom graphics on it? Anyone?
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