Originally posted by EliasThorne Not a bad plan :-) Sorry to derail my own thread!!! But hows DAOC now-a-days, used to play it two years ago or so and liked it and may go back, the problem is I've played loads of MMOs since and I may be suffering from nostaga! I had the same sort of nostalgic feeling for AO and tried that last week and could not have been more bored - click burst, wait for burst to be active, click burst... and so on :-(
Oops, just noticed that you are in the UK like me. The classic server on Euro (GoA) DAoC is Glastonbury. Populations still sliding badly on GoA servers though as they couldn't get someone laid in a brothel in my opinion. I had a US account from day one so I'm on that. I also have Euro accounts with GoA but quit them shortly after ToA. I can't see me reactivating my GoA accounts until they have Darkness Rising patched on Glastonbury, so that won't be until well after Christmas probably. No more posts about DAoC in here from me, I'm frightened of En1gma .
“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
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William S. Burroughs
Originally posted by preka [quote]You can't be serious! Try closer to 2500 bytes. Look at the web page that is there. 2700 bytes. times 10,000 times three divided by 90 seconds equals a lot of freakin' bandwidth. And all with no lag.[/quote] The page that is there isn't transmitted to them - it's transmitted to you. When you click submit, what the hell do you think happens to that page? It doesn't travel from you to them - all that's submitted is your data. The page you receive in turn can be more or less sent at their leisure since it's not really time sensitive - only the initial transmission is.
Lets say your numbers are off by a factor of 8. Instead of 5Mbps, they really had 8x that for 40Mbps. I'd bet money that the forum server is on a T3 (DS-3) at the very least, which has a bandwidth of 45Mbps. Assuming your assumptions are 8 off, they still could have easily done what they did with 5Mbps bandwidth left over.
Oh, and 45Mbps of up and down bandwidth only costs about $2000/mo, not that much for an operation such as this really.
Originally posted by preka [quote]You can't be serious! Try closer to 2500 bytes. Look at the web page that is there. 2700 bytes. times 10,000 times three divided by 90 seconds equals a lot of freakin' bandwidth. And all with no lag.[/quote] The page that is there isn't transmitted to them - it's transmitted to you. When you click submit, what the hell do you think happens to that page? It doesn't travel from you to them - all that's submitted is your data. The page you receive in turn can be more or less sent at their leisure since it's not really time sensitive - only the initial transmission is.
Lets say your numbers are off by a factor of 8. Instead of 5Mbps, they really had 8x that for 40Mbps. I'd bet money that the forum server is on a T3 (DS-3) at the very least, which has a bandwidth of 45Mbps. Assuming your assumptions are 8 off, they still could have easily done what they did with 5Mbps bandwidth left over.
Oh, and 45Mbps of up and down bandwidth only costs about $2000/mo, not that much for an operation such as this really.
Yep, exactly.
The amount of idiocy required to think that this was a hoax because, "OMG THERE WAS NO LAG" is astounding.
What does that mean, really? Stop and think about it, kids.
Regardless of whether or not the registration was a hoax, there were STILL thousands of people spamming it - and it was STILL managing to handle the load just fine. "All with no lag!" as a previous poster (incredulously) mentioned.
Do you honestly think the AMAZINGLY SMALL quantity of information you added to that process by including your username and password would have made a substantial impact on that? Or the amazingly trivial process of updating a few database entries?
There wasn't anything there to fake! Even if they had no actual registration, the vast majority of the traffic (especially what was outgoing on their end) would still have been present!
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Oops, just noticed that you are in the UK like me. The classic server on Euro (GoA) DAoC is Glastonbury. Populations still sliding badly on GoA servers though as they couldn't get someone laid in a brothel in my opinion. I had a US account from day one so I'm on that. I also have Euro accounts with GoA but quit them shortly after ToA. I can't see me reactivating my GoA accounts until they have Darkness Rising patched on Glastonbury, so that won't be until well after Christmas probably. No more posts about DAoC in here from me, I'm frightened of En1gma
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“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs
Lets say your numbers are off by a factor of 8. Instead of 5Mbps, they really had 8x that for 40Mbps. I'd bet money that the forum server is on a T3 (DS-3) at the very least, which has a bandwidth of 45Mbps. Assuming your assumptions are 8 off, they still could have easily done what they did with 5Mbps bandwidth left over.
Oh, and 45Mbps of up and down bandwidth only costs about $2000/mo, not that much for an operation such as this really.
Lets say your numbers are off by a factor of 8. Instead of 5Mbps, they really had 8x that for 40Mbps. I'd bet money that the forum server is on a T3 (DS-3) at the very least, which has a bandwidth of 45Mbps. Assuming your assumptions are 8 off, they still could have easily done what they did with 5Mbps bandwidth left over.
Oh, and 45Mbps of up and down bandwidth only costs about $2000/mo, not that much for an operation such as this really.
Yep, exactly.
The amount of idiocy required to think that this was a hoax because, "OMG THERE WAS NO LAG" is astounding.
What does that mean, really? Stop and think about it, kids.
Regardless of whether or not the registration was a hoax, there were STILL thousands of people spamming it - and it was STILL managing to handle the load just fine. "All with no lag!" as a previous poster (incredulously) mentioned.
Do you honestly think the AMAZINGLY SMALL quantity of information you added to that process by including your username and password would have made a substantial impact on that? Or the amazingly trivial process of updating a few database entries?
There wasn't anything there to fake! Even if they had no actual registration, the vast majority of the traffic (especially what was outgoing on their end) would still have been present!