BloodRoses

March 22, 2005

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.

March 2, 2005

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.

March 1, 2005

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: