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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 24-08-14, 11:07
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Custom title here
 Post: #1161 of 1163 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 5 days Last view: 4 days |
Very nice! Tomman be burnin' up the lines in his neighborhood. ... As if they need help setting fire to the infrastructure. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-08-14, 23:08
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1308 of 1312 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 3 days Last view: 1 day |
ISP confirmed me we got switched to 100/100M, for the same $25/mo. After replacing crab chips and restarting things, here is the final outcome:  ...yeah, I'm hitting a wall somewhere else, and sadly I found where: CPU. Turns out a Pentium III 750/100 can easily saturate a 100Mbit link, but only when doing nothing else, like NAT or PPPoE (two things known to be performance killers). Raw tests with iperf yield that the absolute best this thing can do is 300/200M before NAT/PPPoE, where performance gets cut in more than half (notice that this Speedtest result can't even get to 90Mbit - the computer has already run out of free CPU time!). So... yeah, future arrived here earlier than expected, and it wants more muscle. Options suggested by teh Internets: - Buy Mikrotik $DEVICE: can't - prices are steep, local stores don't stock them, and a certain EU embargo forbids me from ever touching anything networking made within the EU (Mikrotik is from Latvia, an EU member). - Buy a Raspberry Pi: can't - the cheapest Pi here is no less than $200, and that's before accessories and other parts! (Electricity savings here are irrelevant) - Buy a old 1U rack server: can't - even 15 years old junk go for silly money here, not to mention Pratt & Whitney turbofans :D So, I guess my only way out here is to stick to obsolete hardware from a decade ago, instead from 25 years ago: those refurb Dell USFFs from Honest Abdul's Preloved Computerizers And Kitchen Appliances are CHEAP, he now accepts credit cards, and they even have USB3 ports so all I would need to add are USB to Ethernet dongles. But that's a project for later... or at least until my ISP decides that they're really desperate for customers since the competition is doing 500/500M for $30 next door! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 24-08-20, 03:11
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Dinosaur
Post: #1310 of 1312 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 3 days Last view: 1 day |
After melting another Optiplex-sized hole at ye ole' Master Charge, yet another Debian setup this year, disabling Wondershaper (which gets pointless once you get past the magic 100Mbit number), and optimizing some numbers on a box with a hilariously large amount of RAM, here is the end result: 300Mbit? 500Mbit? The full gigabit? BRING IT ON. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
