Why didn't you just get a 300MHz AMD K-6 for about $50? The AMD has MMX as well as the Pentium. The P1 and K-6 both use socket 7 right?

Be sure to use Craftsman tools.

Bob

Because we got the Pentium for free. If we were to buy something new (instead of getting something used for free), we would've gotten a K6 or a Celeron. As it was now, we only had to pay for the motheboard, and we got off with $10 for that one...

How did you get it for free? Please email me and tell me!!!!!
Thanks

It's my old CPU. If somebody was just giving them out, we would have gotten two :)

Chris

where do you get a 300mhz amd k6 for about $50
rwesley@okstate.edu

Check out www.pricewatch.com. Its a service keeps track of many dealers and the lowest prices. AMD k6-2 350s run about $50-$70.
a k6-3 450 runs about $300 and those are incredible!

www.cpdist.com :-)

Don't forget about craftsman tools!!

Bob Vila

Buahaha!!!! That's awesome man!!! :)

The upgrade really improved the preformance on my cyrix 6x86 P-150, 16 megs ram, 33.6 modem.

I would have never guessed that the server used to be a 486. WOW.

Thanks.

really, it shouldn't have been a 486. thinks were getting very slow, and i didn't realize it until the upgrade. (HA! and i thought it was general internet traffic!) hosting sites really seemed to bring it to its knees.

sometimes it felt like my 14.4 again.

-KAKE
IP

Man people must be stupid if they're amazed that this ran on a 486 (linux & gnu are extremely efficient on any hardware) and are talking about how windows 2000 rules and why they don't use it on this server. People get a clue, Windows 2000 doesn't even exist yet (this is commonly referred to as as vaporware) and cut the lame crap.

It does exist but not for the general public. And probably wouldn't be very safe to use for comon practises.

Actually, Microsoft is selling Beta 3 for the general public. It is $59.95. I know it seems rediculous to sell a beta of a piece of crap, but that's Microsoft for you. Click my Web Page link to witness it for yourself.

Whats so bad about buying beta software? Windows release has at least as many bugs, and it costs a lot more!

Good job Ticalc.org people. It certainly seems to be running faster for me on a 28.8 connection. I really think that Ticalc.org does NOT need a Pentium III processor, and all they need is a LOT of bandwidth, which they seem to have.

Hey, why not upgrade the ethernet card to a 100mbits tx card? data transfers would be evern faster than they are now, instead of having around 250k/s transfer rate (10mbit card) you would have around, I believe, 2000k/s. If I recall correctly, you have a t1. So, if you use a t1, why not use the whole power of the t1 and not just a 250k/s pipe of it?

Just a suggestion, not intended to be a flame.
Brian

First of all, we use a dual-E1, not a T1.
Second, this dual E1 delivers 2*2Mbit (whereas a dual-T1 would deliver approx 2*1.56Mbit, if I remember correctly) fullduplex. This means 8Mbit effective.
Our current network card can theoretically deliver 10Mbit full-duplex or 20Mbit effective. Now, granted that it's ISA based card, we don't get 20Mbit effective, but I'm pretty sure that we get more than 8Mbit. Plus, we don't have the dual-E1 for ourselves.
So, to sum it up. I don't beleive the network card has any performance impact, except for myself (since I'm on LAN connection to it).

don't frame relay systems provide full duplex default (unlike the rediculous network card system)?

do you have a thoroughput monitor? your network card (although it's a good one) is both isa and 10mbit, and the max even good pci 10mb can do is much less than advertised. you might want to look into getting a 100tx.

-KAKE
IP (i get PAYED to say this kind of stuff ]:-)

that wasn't very clear. i meant that 2mb/s was the full duplex speed of E1.

-KAKE
IP

Yes, the standard speed of the E1 is 2Mbit Full-Duplex, that is correct.
And yes, we have tested the network card, and it gives us much more than the internet connection. I don't remember exactly, but I think I got somewhere between 8 and 9Mbit (one-way, so 80-90%) when I did a LAN-LAN test.
The main thing is that you want to avoid colissions on the ethernet segment, and that has been avoided by putting it on a switch.

that's the big problem down here. takes a huge (100 ft+) run to reduce the collisions to a reasonable ammount. anything short just bombs and the speed is about a tenth of what it should be.

-KAKE
IP

A 100 Mbit network connection is still ethernet. However, 100 Mbits is about 12,500 K/s, not 2000. 10 Mbits is about 1,250 k/s.