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Seti is down again
Cosmic_Ocean:
Giz, if memory serves correctly, I believe they are trying to avoid "whiteboxes" since there is no real support for them. If you spend US$10K on a server from a major brand, they provide support to keep you happy so that hopefully, you'll buy more from them. With whiteboxes, you're on your own, basically.
That was discussed in the one forum thread that had basically a wishlist, and one of the servers they wanted was pretty simple, but through a major brand, was more than five times the cost of going to newegg and getting all the parts, and the latter option was turned down.
Now maybe these days, with desperation at its peak, they might be willing to go with a whitebox, but if Oscar is going to be as good as we're all hoping, maybe not. We'll just have to wait and see.
Fredericx51:
Aside from from the Server issues, how about the BandWith, which is an isue, too.
UPDate to GigaBit Link, that also is necessary and has been Discussed many, many times
times before, I presume, the new SERVER, has to have 1, better 2 or more, gigabit
nic's, but also have manage the INcreased DataFlow per second.
(Which puts more strain on the Servers, then ever!)
Quite a change anyway, cause MODEM-ROUTER and everything between this end SERVER,
has to be UPDated, too. In most cases, there isn't much, between these 2, a (cat5) cabel.
(Twisted Pair)
Is there any news, about this, remenbered this?
I was called if I was interrested in VDSL and Fiber? Still expensive, but incredible fast!
AsynchronousDSL*, is the most used connection, I think, WiFi is gaining strong and has
many advantages, especially in house. Not suitable for longer distances then 1 Mile (Visible, but 0.5 mile is a more realistic distance)
* Has limitations, except ADSL 2 is fater then ADSL (1), but the speed, strongly depends on the Distance between 'Home' and 'Central' or a (MODEM and Amplifiers Central)
Sorry, I'm drifting (away)
On Topic.
Digital Subscriber Line, VDSL.
VDSL.
Cosmic_Ocean:
Upgrading to gigabit would in fact make data transfers go much faster, and my understanding is that the lab is already gigabit internally, including the router that is hooked up to the line that runs down the hill.. it's the equipment down on campus that needs to be upgraded, as well as the medium itself.
However, making a bigger pipe will only increase the strain on the servers due to allowing more connections to successfully reach through the saturated link. It's one of those Catch 22 situations, but as others and I have said so far.. we'll have to wait and see just how good Oscar really is before theorizing new things to change/upgrade/replace.
Fredericx51:
UPDated, my 'previous post' and added the remark on more load on the Down Load SERVER, the servers end should be able to handle that added traffic!
Seti isn't the only project with the most people, but also in Serving Hosts
perryjay:
Okay, now we're testing my memory here. They just ran one fiber cable up the hill but it is for the entire SSL, hence SETI only gets 100MB out of it. The memory check comes in that as I remember, Hurricane Electric is already giving SETI a Gig for the price of 100GBs. The problem was in that the college IT department wanted something like $30,000 to run the dedicated fiber up the hill to them. My guess is that at the time they ran the new fiber for the lab SETI couldn't afford the price of the fiber so that it could be run up at the same time. Again, if I remember correctly, the college won't allow an outside company to run anything on campus, it must go through the college IT, even though Hurricane would probably do it for SETI at a greatly reduced price.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong here.
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