Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Hi guys, > > The LFS server is definitely getting old and slow and nobody would > complain if something gets done about it. So, something is about to be > done about it. > Good news - not that I've noticed any performance issues, but things like rendering and such will no doubt benefit from an improved hardware spec <snip> > By the way, as an aside in case you are wondering how a 10 meg link > can serve a large group of customers without problems: our wireless > hardware works with GPS sharing. Basically every connected module gets > a GPS timeslot during which it gets maximum bandwidth (the full 10 > Mbit or whatever a customer module can support. Some people can only > pull down 3 Mbit max as they are capped to lower bandwidth on their > contracts). A few milliseconds later the next module gets the full > speed, and so forth. Interesting - that's effectively what ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode, not the Automated Teller Machine) does, although it operates as a switch, and collects like-packets into "cells" and then blasts them down the full bandwidth, using timeslicing as you are above. Had not heard of anyone doing that over Ethernet before tho ;) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
