Think your ISP would let you get away with this?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 9:22 pm

67 gigs served and 40 gigs received in 16 days. Been like this for almost a year. And that's just one machine out of 6

Tri finding hosting that will let you have that kind of traffic and 400 gigs of storage for $50 a month

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 9:53 pm

My ISP would let me get away with it, but unfortunately I do not think I can transfer that much in 16 days.

-Krom

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:11 pm

Should we be surprised then that the link to your DBB avatar is broken?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:23 pm

No, that server is sitting next to me waiting for me to install an OS on it.... lazy

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:59 pm

How do you change the activity from packets to bytes?

Honest Bob · Post by **Honest Bob** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:35 pm

Damn! Can I move in with you stress?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 7:30 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by JMEaT:
How do you change the activity from packets to bytes?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

o_O? Read the dialog box again. Activity is measured in bytes.

Honest Bob · Post by **Honest Bob** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:29 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by DCrazy:
o_O? Read the dialog box again. Activity is measured in bytes. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dcrazy I think he meant how does he change it on his computer. I know mine says packets not bytes. I'm running 2k. Maybe XP uses bytes?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:17 pm

yah 2k uses Packets, and XP uses Bytes, i run both OS's and they are that way.

BellSouth gives me unlimited usage with a standard bandwidth cap. i know ive pushed up into the Gb range after a good 20-25 days. but no way can i get what you have stress, in 16 days, P0rn freak

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:35 pm

I've downloaded 2 GB on my main machine this month. There are three other computers on the network including one that runs a FTP and HTTP server, over the 24 weeks the FTP server has been logging it has sent 67 GB and recieved 14 GB.

-Krom

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 1:17 pm

I have XP and its listed as packets.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 1:21 pm

I hate you all.

/me sneaks off to sob quietly in the background.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 1:26 pm

Consider yourselves lucky, because I can't even open my Status window!

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 2:14 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by AceCombat:
yah 2k uses Packets, and XP uses Bytes,<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Um, no. It depends on the connection or something because I have my 2k box set up as my router and it does both. My LAN connection is in packets and my WAN connection (Connections if you include the PPPOE crap I have to deal with now) is in bytes. Go figure.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 2:35 pm

LAN is in packets, and VPN to univ router is in bytes. W2k.

Back in the days when we had fixed IP addresses from univ, and 10MBit both ways unmetered, I ran a not-so-legal FTP distro server that did 800GB/month easy

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:39 pm

/me wants bytes. I had it in the past. Wha happen?

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:57 am

before my isp got anal about upstream usage i had a fri-sunday weekend were i downloaded 84GB (10mbit/s connection)
krom should remember when i did that

if i spent that much time on file sharing networks now my isp would cap me real fast

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:55 pm

Win XP Pro here, and this is what i see

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 3:07 am

My guess is that's a PPPoE connection, Ace ?

What we'd like to know is how we can get bytes instead of packets on the status of our LAN connections.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 3:22 pm

i hate PPPoE thats where SBC **** up over cause they fix it so i couldent hook my router i had to pay for theres witch was really stupid

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 3:44 pm

in the past 3 days ive had 5 gb upload and 9gb download... thats about average for me really. i didnt think it was high, but apparently it is. :O

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 10:24 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Vertigo:
 My guess is that's a PPPoE connection, Ace ?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

ehhh, good point

mine shows packets too on LAN

DIT: Stress's is WAN not LAN, just thought id point that out

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 3:26 pm

Well here's mine:

Well there goes that theory.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 4:31 pm

So yet again.... how ?

Bonz · Post by **Bonz** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:19 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by AceCombat:
 ehhh, good point

mine shows packets too on LAN

DIT: Stress's is WAN not LAN, just thought id point that out<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
but Stress's looks like a LAN renamed to WAN

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 9:57 pm

Bonz is correct. That machine is on the same firewall my webserver is on, and my 2 gaming machine are on.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 10:22 pm

Of course, but in windows, is it the status of a NIC ? or the status of a PPPoE connection ?

If it's from a NIC, how the hell have you been able to let it show bytes instead of packets ?
And what OS are you using ?

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:35 pm

Network traffic is always measured in bytes. If it was measured in packets it may get quite confusing and hairy. and yes that's the connection speed.

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:25 am

For the record, this particular box is a WinXP Pro SP1 running on an AMD platform.

The mother board is a Soyo Dragon+ with an AMD athlonXP 1800+
The network interface is onboard and it is a VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adaptor.

Driver for the NIC are supplied by VIA (not MS) with a build date of 11/11/03 version 3.27.00.0412

Driver file is named: fetnd5b.sys

Any other questions?