| Eric Coleman |
Posted - Oct 17 2005 : 6:59:39 PM
VB gamer will be getting a slight upgrade next week. Our network connection is being upgraded from DSL to Fiber Optic, so things should be a 'bit' faster.  |
| Eric Coleman |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 11:22:28 PM
We're paying for 15Mbps/2Mbps, but the real speed is less than that.
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| Almar |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 2:58:51 PM
May I ask what speed you'll have now? It sounds cool :D |
| Eric Coleman |
Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 11:06:56 AM
Fiber isn't widely available. The conduit was put in the ground back in April and the fiber was put in some time after that. It's only recently been turned on in my neighborhood. There are consumer options available that are really cheap. However, we had to get a more expensive "business" plan that allowed to get 5 static IPs and freedom over what we use the bandwidth for. The home consumer plans don't allow you to do any service hosting of any sort, such as email or websites. |
| Struan |
Posted - Oct 21 2005 : 10:43:44 PM
Cool, I didn't think fiber was very widely available or affordable. I am college right now so I don't have to worry about it. I think we get 2 megabyte per second upload and download (but most sites aren't fast enough to even fully utilize it). I am gonna miss the fast internet when I graduate. My cable at home seems so slow... |
| Eric Coleman |
Posted - Oct 21 2005 : 4:32:43 PM
Currently we're paying for 1.5Mbps/768Kbs, but in reality we're only getting half that, 768Kbps/360Kbps. Thats the download/upload speed rating, so from your perspective you would reverse the numbers. Right now when you download something from vbgamer you're sharing a 360Kbps data stream with other users. DSL degrades really fast the farther you are from the POP (point of presence) which is why we get such slow speed.
The fiber connection we're getting is 15Mbps/2Mbps for about the same price as the DSL. So, from your perspective the web server should be 5 times faster, or at least downloading stuff from the server will be faster. |
| Struan |
Posted - Oct 20 2005 : 10:23:18 PM
How much faster is the fiber connection supposed to be? |
| Eric Coleman |
Posted - Oct 20 2005 : 10:44:44 AM
Fiber update: The fiber was laid today. The end of the fiber is just outside the house next to the electricity meter. Now we're waiting for someone to install the fiber hardware along with a PSU. I think it will be active on Monday. The end result will be an ethernet port in the garage. There is guarantee that it will be faster than what we're using now, but I sure hope so! Now we need to create a DNS server to test the new connection for next week.
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| Struan |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 2:51:08 PM
Well it isn't strictly game related nor is it media related. It is a VB.NET performance guide. I am going to go over a lot of common perfomance pitfalls and .NET performance myths/false information. I am writing it as part of a project for my technical communication class, and partly because I see a lot of people claiming .NET is slow when they don't understand they can be doing in .NET to get much faster code than many other languages. If you don't think it appropriate for this site that is fine. |
| Eric Coleman |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 12:53:45 PM
Struan, Yes, if it is game related. Simple stuff, like "how do I create a new project in VB.NET", is too simple. There are already lots of web sites dedicated to general VB6/VB.NET programming. Tutorials should be more "media" oriented, such as graphics, sounds, or advanced game stuff such as AI, path finding, etc. And since MS has pretty much abandonded VB.NET support for DirectX 9, then any tutorial for dx9 and .net (C# included) is needed. |
| Lachlan87 |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 12:22:52 PM
Yeah, bring it on! |
| Threshold |
Posted - Oct 18 2005 : 11:21:41 AM
As far as I know, VB.NET tutorials are welcome, and encouraged. There aren't many out there yet, so the more the better. |
| Struan |
Posted - Oct 17 2005 : 11:51:01 PM
Cool
I was wondering... do you accept VB.NET tutorals? or only VB6? I am writing a guide to writing fast VB.NET code. I thought I might post it here. |
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