BloodRoses

Your speeds with RoadRunner should be 5120/384 or 5120/512 for those few areas that did get upgraded to 512Kbps upload (Cincinnati, NY, etc.). You may have been upgraded again (nothing I'm aware of, but it's not something RR openly advertises). I wouldn't say your upload speeds rock by a longshot (ISP's are only now providing us with upload), but your download is actually maxing out the throughput of USB. Mind you, USB is also very much software controlled, so the age of your computer, in this case, does have a negative affect on USB (this is actually an issue regardless of what computer you have, it DOES use system resources). I'm kicking a dead horse here by saying buy a NIC, but I would highly suggest it. With a NIC in there, however, your computers speed is way more than fast enough to max out a 5 Megabit connection. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=33-124-107&depa=0 There's an LNE100TX on NewEgg for 15$. Great NIC's, I have one in my Debian network server right now so it's well supported by almost all OS's, too if you so decide to use it somewhere else in the future.

If you're into digital photography and video editing you might want to seriously consider a PowerMac G5. Photoshop, Toast, and Final Cut Pro are the most common, not to mention most powerful tools of the trade, actually. I've done the comparisons in terms of power you get out of it vs. price and Apple actually comes out cheaper than most of the serious PC workstations. Mind you, we're talking dual G5's here. The cheapest way to work your way into a PowerMac is to go to the Apple "Save" store. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/72604/wo/R04qropt26913ArHulzeDumUpF4/0.0.11.1.0.6.61.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.1.1.0?89,44 You can add memory etc. later, and pretty much ALL PowerMac's do include a SuperDrive (DVD burner). This is all for MUCH less than 2,000$. Also, keep an eye on www.dealmac.com , scroll down a bit and towards the left it says "Systems". Check that every day, as they post PowerMacs fairly often. If you want more information on the software I mentioned, I'm sure you're familiar with Photoshop, and... Toast is here: http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml Final Cut Pro: http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/ The price on Final Cut is pretty steep but there's ways around that (I wont say anything further than that here). Not to mention how much more stress free it is to do the things you're talking about on a Mac, and the fact you don't have to worry about viruses or spyware etc. etc. Hope this helps. P.S. You may also want to consider an iMac if you want a monitor etc. with it, just MAKE SURE to get a G5 based Mac, or you really wont be satisfied with the performance for what you're doing.

Edit: I figured it out. Eventually. I'm really bad at windoze if you couldn't tell. ;p C:Documents and SettingsStephanie>tracert allmanaged.com Tracing route to allmanaged.com [65.110.32.166] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms 10.238.48.1 2 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms c-66-56-66-65.atl.client2.attbi.com [66.56.66.65 ] 3 10 ms 9 ms 11 ms 12.118.120.89 4 11 ms 13 ms 11 ms tbr1-p012201.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.21.138] 5 24 ms 24 ms 37 ms tbr2-cl1.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.10.69] 6 23 ms 24 ms 25 ms ggr2-p390.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.9.85] 7 25 ms 28 ms 24 ms 208.50.13.253 8 51 ms 51 ms 53 ms so1-0-0-2488M.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net [67.17.66.169] 9 56 ms 56 ms 53 ms ExpedientSago-NetworksDashboard-Communications.g e-2-0-0.ar2.TPA1.gblx.net [64.215.80.66] 10 53 ms 54 ms 53 ms gatekeeper.noc.sagonet.net [65.110.32.59] 11 55 ms 54 ms 58 ms unknown.sagonet.net [65.110.32.166] Trace complete. C:Documents and SettingsStephanie>ping -n 20 www.allmanaged.com Pinging allmanaged.com [65.110.32.166] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=52 Reply from 65.110.32.166: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=52 Ping statistics for 65.110.32.166: Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 53ms, Maximum = 61ms, Average = 54ms

Just plain ol' "traceroute" in Unix.

Argh, sorry. I haven't had my morning dose of Mountain Dew yet. [11:30:53] Faerie@Ani ~$ traceroute www.allmanaged.com traceroute to allmanaged.com (65.110.32.166), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 10.238.48.1 (10.238.48.1) 12.576 ms 10.038 ms 10.809 ms 2 c-66-56-66-65.atl.client2.attbi.com (66.56.66.65) 9.352 ms 27.487 ms 9.981 ms 3 12.118.120.89 (12.118.120.89) 10.118 ms 10.608 ms 9.945 ms 4 tbr1-p012201.attga.ip.att.net (12.123.21.138) 10.850 ms 15.876 ms 13.462 ms 5 tbr2-cl1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.10.69) 24.209 ms 23.721 ms 23.897 ms 6 ggr2-p390.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.85) 25.421 ms 24.493 ms 39.644 ms 7 208.50.13.253 (208.50.13.253) 24.206 ms 23.440 ms 24.207 ms 8 so1-0-0-2488M.ar2.TPA1.GBlx.net (67.17.66.169) 51.400 ms 51.946 ms 52.652 ms 9 ExpedientSago-NetworksDashboard-Communications.ge-2-0-0.ar2.TPA1 (64.215.80.66) 53.451 ms 53.180 ms 55.962 ms Every hop after that times out. [11:43:23] Faerie@Ani ~$ ping -c 20 www.allmanaged.com PING allmanaged.com (65.110.32.166) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=53.6 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=54.1 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=70.9 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=55.0 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=54.4 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=54.0 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=55.4 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=65.0 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=58.5 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=10 ttl=52 time=55.4 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=11 ttl=52 time=54.8 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=12 ttl=52 time=58.3 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=13 ttl=52 time=54.5 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=14 ttl=52 time=56.2 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=15 ttl=52 time=55.3 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=16 ttl=52 time=54.6 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=17 ttl=52 time=54.9 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=18 ttl=52 time=54.3 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=19 ttl=52 time=54.6 ms 64 bytes from unknown.sagonet.net (65.110.32.166): icmp_seq=20 ttl=52 time=54.5 ms --- allmanaged.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19018ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 53.685/56.470/70.975/4.152 ms

From Atlanta. [11:30:03] Faerie@Ani ~$ traceroute www.testmy.net traceroute to www.testmy.net (67.19.36.6), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 10.238.48.1 (10.238.48.1) 11.721 ms 8.647 ms 10.067 ms 2 c-66-56-66-65.atl.client2.attbi.com (66.56.66.65) 10.750 ms 12.549 ms 10.232 ms 3 12.118.120.89 (12.118.120.89) 10.397 ms 27.885 ms 9.637 ms 4 tbr2-p013901.attga.ip.att.net (12.123.21.142) 10.634 ms 36.067 ms 12.745 ms 5 tbr1-cl1.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.2.89) 27.550 ms 29.683 ms 26.841 ms 6 gar1-p360.dlrtx.ip.att.net (12.123.196.101) 26.361 ms 26.178 ms 26.155 ms 7 12.119.136.14 (12.119.136.14) 26.205 ms 26.301 ms 28.241 ms 8 dist-vlan31.dsr3-1.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.29) 27.440 ms dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.30) 28.593 ms dist-vlan32.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.62) 28.698 ms 9 dist-vlan41.dsr2-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com (70.85.127.83) 26.813 ms dist-vlan-42.dsr2-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com (70.85.127.91) 27.908 ms dist-vlan41.dsr2-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com (70.85.127.83) 28.822 ms 10 gig1-0-1.tp-car9-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com (67.18.116.69) 26.529 ms 28.686 ms 29.982 ms 11 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6) 26.282 ms 26.257 ms 27.572 ms [11:30:21] Faerie@Ani ~$ ping -c 20 www.testmy.net PING www.testmy.net (67.19.36.6) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=25.1 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=25.1 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=27.8 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=27.4 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=25.2 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=36.5 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=26.5 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=8 ttl=54 time=27.6 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=9 ttl=54 time=26.5 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=10 ttl=54 time=27.2 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=11 ttl=54 time=25.2 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=12 ttl=54 time=25.5 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=13 ttl=54 time=29.1 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=14 ttl=54 time=27.1 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=15 ttl=54 time=25.4 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=16 ttl=54 time=29.3 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=17 ttl=54 time=26.8 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=18 ttl=54 time=27.3 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=19 ttl=54 time=26.7 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=20 ttl=54 time=26.7 ms --- www.testmy.net ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19016ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 25.106/27.245/36.512/2.450 ms Very nice. But isn't this the same as it was?