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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 ?

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

Mike Simanyi wrote:I'm sure Al Gore can. Ya know, he invented the Interweb...

Mike Simanyi wrote: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.

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:

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 ....

Mako Koiwai wrote: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.

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.

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?

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

Superantispyware is good.

Aaron Goldsmith wrote:Didn't know you were on a Mac, no clue then.

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

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.

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

Mako Koiwai wrote: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.

Can't call Will a lemming....

Giovanni Jaramillo wrote:

Aaron Goldsmith wrote: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.

Bob Beamesderfer wrote: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.

Manly Adventures in Celibacy


Oh look I made a mooovie....

Eeeew, a slideshow.....

Look I downloaded Perry Como Christmas!!!

Jeff Shyu wrote:

Bob Beamesderfer wrote: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.

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

Bob Beamesderfer wrote: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.

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.

Mako Koiwai wrote:Using http://www.speedtest.net/



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

Yup!
This is here at my work.

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/