Well I got clothes, food, money. Got my girlfriend a promise ring, and she got me the equivalent, and asrock z77 mobo
Merry christmas and a happy new year
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12-26-2012, 04:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2012, 04:14 PM by NaturalViolence.)
The same thing I ask for every year, money. Got myself an EVGA GTX 660 superclocked edition. And I also bought a samsung 840 pro 128GB SSD while it was on sale. That should be arriving in a week. I will finally witness the glory of SSDs. And of course lots and lots of games on steam due to the holiday sale. Which as SS mentioned on IRC most of which I will likely never play .
I did get around to trying chivalry: medieval warfare though. The gore and sound effects are so over the top with some weapons that I find myself laughing uncontrollably when I kill someone. It does seem like the game will wear off on me pretty quickly though as there isn't a lot of depth or strategy to it. What I really want though is a better internet connection, god I would give anything for that. My area of town continues to be ignored by all of the major ISPs in the area, limiting me to an extremely outdated dsl connection since nobody has laid the infrastructure for anything better. I'm currently downloading the 1.9GB crysis 2 HD texture patch at 30 KB/s with an ETA of 8 hours. I could always move now that I have my associates degree but I want to stay and do my bachelors here as well.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."
-Ron Swanson "I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. " -Mark Antony (12-26-2012, 04:13 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: I'm currently downloading the 1.9GB crysis 2 HD texture patch at 30 KB/s with an ETA of 8 hours. Weird, i live in a 3rd world country but my internet is better than yours, although i guess what separates us is cost as it's quite expensive for an unlimited 1 month connection.
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12-27-2012, 07:40 AM
Well to be fair my connection is 2mb/s (256 KB/s). Of course the wireless router reduces that a bit and some services run really slow during peak hours of the day.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."
-Ron Swanson "I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. " -Mark Antony 12-27-2012, 12:54 PM
What? Aren't most wireless routers 100mbit/s?
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(This post was last modified: 12-30-2012, 07:36 AM by NaturalViolence.)
If you're using a wired connection then yes. 802.11g is 54 mb/s at max throughput. But the further away you get the weaker the signal is and the lower your throughput will be.
I have found that for whatever reason even on a slow connection wired is faster than wireless for most applications, most likely due to the extra overhead of a wireless connection. I have noticed that with applications like bittorrent that involve many parallel connections there is no difference but with ftp for example there is a significant difference between the two. Once you get down to 1 or 2 bars the connection is painfully slow no matter what. I don't know very much about wifi or even wireless telecommunication in general so I can't tell you why without doing some research, which I'm too lazy to do right now.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."
-Ron Swanson "I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. " -Mark Antony 12-30-2012, 08:54 AM
If the signal is weaker, then background radiation is more likely to be 'Louder' than the signal. If the signal is drowned out by the background radiation, then you'll lose some bits from a packet, and the packet won't match the error correcting code it includes. This means that the packet is requested and sent again. If you have to send everything multiple times before it arrives, it's going to take longer to get there.
In a wired system, it's far less likely that there's going to be anything that can cause enough interference to overpower the signal, as you're unlikely to route your internet cables past a massive-ass magnet, but may let a wireless signal pass through areas with other electronic devices. Also, it takes some time for the signal to be processed for sending wirelessly, so this can make it partially slower.
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(This post was last modified: 12-30-2012, 09:24 AM by NaturalViolence.)
I am aware of the effects of EMI on packet loss but there are still a few things that confuse me that would require further research, such as:
Quote:I have noticed that with applications like bittorrent that involve many parallel connections there is no difference but with ftp for example there is a significant difference between the two. Doesn't matter how weak or strong my signal is I still get the full 2 mb/s my dsl line is capable of whenever I'm using bitttorrent. Compare that to ftp which seems to have a exponential asymptotic relationship (I'm not a math major so forgive me if that term is incorrect). That is to say it never reaches 2 mb/s even at 90-100% signal strength, it's always slower than wired. And the relationship between signal strength and throughput is exponential. At 30-40% it drops all the way down to a few KB/s. At 60 it's 10 times that fast, at 80% it's twice as fast as 60% and so on. This is especially odd considering 802.11g is capable of a whopping 54 mb/s at 100%. Even if only 4% of all packets make it through it should be capable of 2 mb/s.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."
-Ron Swanson "I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. " -Mark Antony 01-01-2013, 12:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2013, 12:13 PM by hyperspeed.)
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