Im in the room right now and I want to take a poll with other people in this room now… how well is the overall quality? Personally I see that they have really horrible lag. I asked about it and they are running all of the following on a single T1:
30 Computers
NASA Computers
FIRST CREW Computers
4 80kbps Web Feeds
5 Ethernet Connections for Team Laptops.
I think the speed is good for what they are stuck using, but I worry of the webcast quality tommorow. I think it’s gonna be real slow and slow this room up also. On a final note, Andrew is sitting next to me and would like to say how they don’t have optical mice and it’s hard to move the mouse. Anyways, I figured I’d like to see how other people viewed how they have things setup for us here. Thanks to FIRST for letting us have one of these rooms cause it allows us to provide live updates on the site and do lots of things we normally couldn’t do.
crimeney… beggars can’t be choosers, i know, but this terminal like, lacks graphic memory. it loads one picture, screen goes blank. loads another picture, screen goes blank. repeat, ad inifinium.
of course, it’s probably just this computer being exceedingly annoying. and besides, if it wasn’t for this, we wouldnt have any internet connection.
so, yeah. since this is basically a really slow LAN party in here, if anyone reads this in the next five minutes, stand up and say hi. peace. -K
(btw, there’s no webcast now because there’s nothing to webcast…
I didn’t seem to have any bad lagging. The computers are quite slow actually, and they all have screwy mouse icons so it’s hard to click things. It’s better than nothing I guess.
Bah, the room was always too full to use! And the laptop connections… those were RJ11, weren’t they? I didn’t see any free ethernet around…
Webcasts sharing the T1 line? NOT COOL… I would much rather see the webcasts get mondo-bandwitdh then have this poll posted on CD (or, if you mean that there are 4 streams going to some kind of proxy server, then that’s okay I suppose as long as the 80kbps*4 is always there)
There were actually only a couple of computers in the Internet room. What most people were using were thin clients. That means that there wasn’t much local memory or processing power and you are limited by the servers handling the thin clients. So the bottle neck was probably not the T-1.
There was one RJ45 but I agree that it would have been better if there were more. Cut the dial out lines in half and add enternet ports and wireless access points for next year. In fact if they let me know in advance that there will be good wireless access points I can probably bring a couple of laptops and let people use them at our pit or some place.
I am glad that Raytheon put in the tent but I’ve been to a number of events in the last year or so with that sort of thing and this was the worst of them all. Most use real computers or fast Sun stations with bigger servers. Raytheon probably wanted to show off what they make and I don’t blame them for it. But they may have under estimated demand.
One thing I really did not understand was all the people using IM. I mean really weren’t there enough people around to talk to IRL? I used internet access for two things 1) email 2) updating the school’s web page. Both of which were to keep parents, sponsors, and team members who stayed home current with what the team was doing. Well, ok, a little personal business but that was just because I was plugging my own laptop into the ethernet jack at the SOAP booth (which I appreciated a LOT Thanks!) And at that I set up the files and wrote the email BEFORE I plugged in so tha tI would not hog the line.
*Originally posted by Alfred Thompson *
**One thing I really did not understand was all the people using IM. I mean really weren’t there enough people around to talk to IRL? I used internet access for two things 1) email 2) updating the school’s web page. Both of which were to keep parents, sponsors, and team members who stayed home current with what the team was doing. Well, ok, a little personal business but that was just because I was plugging my own laptop into the ethernet jack at the SOAP booth (which I appreciated a LOT Thanks!) And at that I set up the files and wrote the email BEFORE I plugged in so tha tI would not hog the line. **
I agree with you, I used the computers to (at least try to) update the school website and send e-mails out to the team’s parents telling them that everythign was ok and how we were doing in the matches. I will admit I got on AIM for a few minutes, but I was Im’ing a friend who stayed home with the numbers of our matches for him to video tape. Also, we had power problems and the video recordings didnt work at all. Does anyone have video(s) of Friday and Saturday broadcast over NASA TV? If you do PLEASE e-mail me at [email protected] and if you could copy the tapes I could reimburse you. Thanks very much.
peace. -K