DigiChilli January Status and feedback

Vegeta said:
Guys will this work? I put 2 network cards in my pc. I setup a PPPOE connection on both to one mild DC account through 1 ADSL line. I bridge the two connections. Now comes the tricky part, how can i get double the speed somehow? Is it even possible? BTW double for me in this case would be like 8kb/s ffs
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You don't say which application you want to use it for. If you want to use torrents you can do the following:

1. Download Sun VirtualBox (or your favourite VM host software) and install on your PC.
2. Create a virtual machine and install your favourite operating system (Linux would be fantastic since you don't have to worry about licenses then)
3. Configure the VM to use a bridged network connection
4. Create the second PPPoE connection on your virtual machine.
5. Install your favourite torrent application (it does not even need to be the same as the one you are using on the physical machine
6. Establish PPPoE connection on both machines
7. Download the same torrent to both machines
8. The two torrent apps will leech from each other.

This should work for most P2P applications since most of them use distributed databases and peer announcements which will let the p2p app find local LAN copies.

BTW This way you could have both connections running through the same ethernet card so you could do away with the second card.
 
lappies_in_jhb said:
You don't say which application you want to use it for. If you want to use torrents you can do the following:

1. Download Sun VirtualBox (or your favourite VM host software) and install on your PC.
2. Create a virtual machine and install your favourite operating system (Linux would be fantastic since you don't have to worry about licenses then)
3. Configure the VM to use a bridged network connection
4. Create the second PPPoE connection on your virtual machine.
5. Install your favourite torrent application (it does not even need to be the same as the one you are using on the physical machine
6. Establish PPPoE connection on both machines
7. Download the same torrent to both machines
8. The two torrent apps will leech from each other.

This should work for most P2P applications since most of them use distributed databases and peer announcements which will let the p2p app find local LAN copies.

BTW This way you could have both connections running through the same ethernet card so you could do away with the second card.
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The way I see it that won't necessarily give a speed benefit. If it is indeed that they mean two seperate lines by concurrent connections surely this will still provide no benefit? Anyway I guess he will try and let us know.
 
Techrat said:
The way I see it that won't necessarily give a speed benefit. If it is indeed that they mean two seperate lines by concurrent connections surely this will still provide no benefit? Anyway I guess he will try and let us know.
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By my reasoning the bottleneck does not sit with the ADSL line but with the break out to the rest of the network, either local or international. If this is the case we now have two separate links, each capable of 256kbps (hahahahahaha!!!!).

So if you have a 512k or higher line you should get the speed increase. Especially since each connection will have its own virtual pipe (a la jak3's message yesterday quoting Dave)
 
Vegeta said:
I want to download my prawns at full speed :D
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travel-vancouver-island.com/data/media/1/prawns_87.jpg here :D


Damn html skills are lacking again. What's the code to make clickable links? :wtf:

<a href="www.google.com" target= "_blank"> Google</a>
 
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Is anyone else's connection basically dead? Browsing and news server basically non- existent..
 
lappies_in_jhb said:
By my reasoning the bottleneck does not sit with the ADSL line but with the break out to the rest of the network, either local or international. If this is the case we now have two separate links, each capable of 256kbps (hahahahahaha!!!!).

So if you have a 512k or higher line you should get the speed increase. Especially since each connection will have its own virtual pipe (a la jak3's message yesterday quoting Dave)
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ok but if your router is pulling down on your line at full speed, and lets say full speed is "50k" then splitting to two connections in one pc will still only make the router pull down at "50k" because that is as much as the line can handle????

Or am i missing something??
 
might work like this...
there is 100KB/s available to all digichilli memebers....there are 9 people connected...you are one of them. so you get about 12 KB/s fully utilized...now if you had two connections you would be able to get 20KB/s
 
Speedyza said:
ok but if your router is pulling down on your line at full speed, and lets say full speed is "50k" then splitting to two connections in one pc will still only make the router pull down at "50k" because that is as much as the line can handle????

Or am i missing something??
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Since you have to separate PPPoE sessions each count separately. The full line capacity (e.g. 512 kbps) will be split between the two sessions. So each session will run as fast as DC allows, but both together cannot exceed 512 kbps. If they do, they will contend with each other for bandwidth.

If you are already running at full line speed, you won't see a difference, but many people here seem to be running way below what their lines can deliver, in which case you will see the difference quite clearly. It's especially useful if you have a 4Mbps link.

If you have some advanced router at the other end (iproute2 or similar) you can even bond the links together to a certain extent, making a virtual pipe out of the two of them. However, there are some issues, as each TCP session has to send all its data over one link, so it's not quite a straightforward doubling.
 
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