What's Your Connection Speed ?

[Mako Koiwai]

Using http://www.speedtest.net/

With our Time Warner cable hook up here in South Pasadena, I get around 9,740 kbps. Karen, when working at home, has to go through her companies server which brings her speed down to less then 2,000!

But even at close to 10,000 kbps my connections often seems sloooooow?! The problem is connecting to web sites. Often once I'm in the site it's OK. So who's "fault" is that?

Can anyone top Steve Collin's 41,500 kbps at JPL ?

[Mike Simanyi]

I'm sure Al Gore can. Ya know, he invented the Interweb...

[Tom Denham]

I'm sure Al Gore can. Ya know, he invented the Interweb...

[Aaron Goldsmith]

I'm sure Al Gore can. Ya know, he invented the Interweb...

Woh, mike almost gets this thread thrown in the political paddock in 1 post. Welcome to the 90's, haha.

10 megabits is fast enough for anything in the internet Mako, there's something wrong with your PC, still sounds like an incorrect nameserver or malware of some type, from the description.

[Mako Koiwai]

Perhaps in the interest of the new fairness ... we should all rotate, sharing the same avatar for one day (week). Perhaps we could automate this. :mrt:

[Mako Koiwai]

Found iAntiVirus from PC Tools, for Mac ... hopefully that will work/help. Yesterday HALF of my keyboard froze up?! Had to Restart it to clear that weirdness ....

[Aaron Goldsmith]

Any malware search and destroy software for a Mac that can be recommended? Mac's use to not get hot and bothered by these things?

Didn't know you were on a Mac, no clue then.

[Rick Brown]

Can't be the computer. He's on a Mac. They are perfect, never break, and are immune to virus attacks....... at least according to the annoying commercials and the fanatic users.

[Mako Koiwai]

It found nothing?! I think I remember last year using a clean up program called Macaroni that found some Spyware? Looking at the result of a Scan using iAntiVirus ... should I be trying something else to look for malware ... or should the attached result mean I'm clean?

[Mako Koiwai]

Didn't realize iAntiVirus was set to Quick Scan ... doing Normal Scan now for a more thorough search ...

[Bob Pl]

Superantispyware is good.

[Giovanni Jaramillo]

Didn't know you were on a Mac, no clue then.

What's a Mac?? Is that a new toy for kids?

[Steve Ekstrand]

At Mickey D's, when you order a happy meal and they ask for a boy or a girl, you answer Metrosexual, and they give you a Mac as the toy.

[Jeff Shyu]

i get a pretty consistent 10 down 1 up w/ charter cable.

[Will Kalman]

But even at close to 10,000 kbps my connections often seems sloooooow?! The problem is connecting to web sites. Often once I'm in the site it's OK. So who's "fault" is that?

Mako, I'm on Time-Warner also and their DNS servers have been slow the last few days. Long delays upon first accessing a site then it's fast, because the DNS information has been cached.

10mbps is the throughput, what you're seeing is high latency on the name lookup (i.e. turning the human-readable address into a numerical IP address). It should clear up, it's better today than it was yesterday.

[Steve Ekstrand]

Can't call Will a lemming....

[Bob Beamesderfer]

Didn't know you were on a Mac, no clue then.

What's a Mac?? Is that a new toy for kids?

No, it's the machine that 95% of all video editing is done on for feature films. Also the machine that's been used to produce everything Pixar has made.

Mako, install Macaroni and set it to run all the Linux maintenance routines more often. I have them set to run every day. I also run a software firewall in addition to the one in the router.

[Jeff Shyu]

No, it's the machine that 95% of all video editing is done on for feature films. Also the machine that's been used to produce everything Pixar has made.

if you're willing to pay the premium for them, Macs are pretty good machines.

plus, they are cool accessory when you're sitting in all black in the back corner of starbucks, contemplating the sins of the world around you while trying to be very obvious about ignoring everyone around you.

[Steve Ekstrand]

Manly Adventures in Celibacy


Oh look I made a mooovie....

Eeeew, a slideshow.....

Look I downloaded Perry Como Christmas!!!

[Bob Beamesderfer]

No, it's the machine that 95% of all video editing is done on for feature films. Also the machine that's been used to produce everything Pixar has made.

if you're willing to pay the premium for them, Macs are pretty good machines.

plus, they are cool accessory when you're sitting in all black in the back corner of starbucks, contemplating the sins of the world around you while trying to be very obvious about ignoring everyone around you.

I'm willing to pay the premium for something that's well-built. Unlike a corporation that might swap out cheap Dell PCs every two years, I keep a machine longer. I still use the same Sony Trinitron monitor I bought about 12 years ago.

[Bob Beamesderfer]

9,526 down and 1,462 up on AT&T U-verse

[Jeff Shyu]

I'm willing to pay the premium for something that's well-built. Unlike a corporation that might swap out cheap Dell PCs every two years, I keep a machine longer. I still use the same Sony Trinitron monitor I bought about 12 years ago.

well, this is total personal preference, but "well built" and "electronics" really don't go hand in hand in my book.

I have laptops that are still in perfect working order (dells) that are basically retired, because they aren't up to today's speeds. I have a personal threshold of about 4-5 years on technology, and of all the computers i've owned (all non-macs), they have all outlasted that threshold to be tossed aside in upgrades, rather than internal combustion.

[Mako Koiwai]

Ad agency and client in their video village for a TGIF commercial shoot. 7 Macs, 1 PC ... belonging to the corporate type client rep. I counted 18 Mac laptops on that job, between crew and agency.

[Casey Brier]

Using http://www.speedtest.net/



Can anyone top Steve Collin's 41,500 kbps at JPL ?

Yup!
This is here at my work.

[Mako Koiwai]

I like this shot. Amex commercial in China. Going down the Li river in complete darkness ... only three laptops lighting the cabin:



Last shot before night:



Our director, with his PC ... he's got a Mac now:



More shots here: http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/work/china_2002/