Monday, 30 April 2012
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Crytek agreed the second hand games market should be killed.
Saddening really. I could live with games publishers opting for a take in the second hand biz but to completely rid them selves of it would be annoying to say the least. I doubt they would be happy to bring the wholesale price down on the games in expectation of higher sales?
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/25/crytek_calls_anti_used_games_measures_awesome/
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/25/crytek_calls_anti_used_games_measures_awesome/
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Vodafone buys Cable and Wireless Worldwide
Very wise move on the fibre backbone architecture. They'll be needing that for their 4G network. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5184-vodafone-buys-cable-and-wireless-worldwide.html
Monday, 23 April 2012
Friday, 20 April 2012
Adding IPv6 access to your blogger blog.
I've switched my blog (domain poijnting at Blogger hosted site) to provide AAAA / A records to DNS requests no matter which resolver makes the request. Google currently only provide IPv6 AAAA records to whitelist DNS resolvers on their default ghs.google.com and thus if the resolver is outside of this it will only be given an A record.
Using ghs46.google.com overrides this and that is what I have changed the CNAME on alpagot.co.uk to.
For more info, see the link: here
New Sky DSL connection.
My new connection was put in yesterday.
Having checked my postcode on thinkbroad's map against the closest telephone exchange (straight line distance about 500meters) I was hopeful of fast speeds on ADSL. When the connection went live I connected locally into the Sky phase 3 router (Sagem) via a web browser using the internal IP of 192.168.0.1 . On the maintenance page you will find a show statistics button at the bottom which gave me the following:
Here I could see the downstream attenuation which I could put into a attenuation calculator to see if I was near the theoretical maximum. 21,344kbps was suggested as the absolute maximum so I wasn't massively off.
It's likely that I could improve on my downstream sync speed of 17.7Mbps with a couple of tweaks such as going directly to the master socket's test socket, removing other devices from the line such as the phone and trying a different DSL filter / shorter data cable.
Next up was to try some speed testers which test throughput (Note the sync is the connection to the telephone exchange, throughput is what is passing through that connection and is effected by anything else that maybe using the connection at the same time as the test).
The results were not bad either, 14Mbps during the day is very decent. I'll take some evening reading as well to update the blog but I'm very happy for the time being. FTTC is in my area but I can't really justify the cost with these speeds having some from a long line where I had a sync of 4Mbps. It's a shame Sky don't offer static IP's but at least they have put dynDNS.org functionality into there routers which I'm told is a lot of hassel on Virgin Media who I almost had to sign up to.
Here's hoping for IPv6 functionality as well.
EDIT:
An evening speedtest result around 9pm
Having checked my postcode on thinkbroad's map against the closest telephone exchange (straight line distance about 500meters) I was hopeful of fast speeds on ADSL. When the connection went live I connected locally into the Sky phase 3 router (Sagem) via a web browser using the internal IP of 192.168.0.1 . On the maintenance page you will find a show statistics button at the bottom which gave me the following:
Here I could see the downstream attenuation which I could put into a attenuation calculator to see if I was near the theoretical maximum. 21,344kbps was suggested as the absolute maximum so I wasn't massively off.
It's likely that I could improve on my downstream sync speed of 17.7Mbps with a couple of tweaks such as going directly to the master socket's test socket, removing other devices from the line such as the phone and trying a different DSL filter / shorter data cable.
Next up was to try some speed testers which test throughput (Note the sync is the connection to the telephone exchange, throughput is what is passing through that connection and is effected by anything else that maybe using the connection at the same time as the test).
The results were not bad either, 14Mbps during the day is very decent. I'll take some evening reading as well to update the blog but I'm very happy for the time being. FTTC is in my area but I can't really justify the cost with these speeds having some from a long line where I had a sync of 4Mbps. It's a shame Sky don't offer static IP's but at least they have put dynDNS.org functionality into there routers which I'm told is a lot of hassel on Virgin Media who I almost had to sign up to.
Here's hoping for IPv6 functionality as well.
EDIT:
An evening speedtest result around 9pm
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Monday, 16 April 2012
Friday, 13 April 2012
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Everything's now $1 BILLION DOLLARS!
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