[Imc-tech] cool networking stuff

[Zachary C. Miller]

> Zach -- what's the other ISP, and what's the bandwidth?

I am a beta tester for a commercial wireless ISP called volo.net. It
is run by Peter Folk who works with the CU Wireless Group from time to
time.

I am currently getting 300kbps downlink and 80kbps downlink (compared
to 150 up and 30 down on my DSL) over this ISP. Peter tells me that in
the future this could go up 5-fold as he acquires more bandwidth and
changes the limits on his routers.

I am taking a very slow and cautious approach to moving IMC or other
hosted services over to this link because this company is brand new
and untested and I am a beta tester so the quality of my link could
change as software is changed.

If this pans out though this'll be a major boon for broadband
applications on IMC/groogroo.

Right now I am stress testing the wireless link by running a P2P file
sharing client on it. This shouldn't affect the web hosting side of
things at all. If it does, let me know. 

Paul Riismandel wrote:

> 
> The QoS bandwitdh shaping sounds cool and should really improve 
> responsiveness I reckon.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> 
> >I'm playing with some really cool networking stuff on the groogroo
> >server. I've now got two different ISPs connected via two different
> >ethernet cards and I'm coordinating them both through the iproute2
> >Advanced Linux Router stuff which just lets you do about anything you
> >can possibly imagine.
> >
> >Right now access to the UCIMC website is exactly as it has always been
> >(strictly over the soltec DSL) but during the next week I will be
> >experimenting with load balancing these two connections. This should
> >bring a major increase in the server's available bandwidth.
> >
> >I am also going to play with some Quality of Service bandwidth shaping
> >stuff that should make it so that even when all teh bandwidth is in
> >use from big downloads, interactive ssh sessions will still be
> >responsive.
> >
> >Anyway, if anyone wants to learn about this cool advanced router stuff
> >let me know. It has been a slow process to learn but I'm loving it.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 

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