Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:34:43 08/06/02
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On August 06, 2002 at 22:16:48, James Swafford wrote: >For a hundred or so users, I think any decent computer with a broadband >connection would be ok. > >FICS code is free, I believe, so this is doable. :) I think so too :) I still have questions though. For a broadband connection, the upstream is usually far lower than the downstream. My cable connection is capable of downloading anywhere from a few hundred KB/sec on up to almost 1MB/sec at times. The upstream is like 15KB/sec. Another problem is that it's not uncommon for broadband connections to go down temporarily. My cable goes down for a little bit (maybe 10 minutes, maybe a few hours) every now and then, usually in the middle of the night. Maybe the ISP is upgrading or rebooting a machine, who knows. Sometimes it just takes me rebooting my machine. In any case, that's probably not acceptable for a chess server. I'd hate for it to go down for 10 minutes during the last round of CCT5 :) In connecting to an IRC network, there are usually several servers you can connect to. You might connect to irc.whatever.com, but it might send you over to connect through nyirc4.whatever.com, which might be one of their IRC servers in New York (or whatever, just an example). I was thinking that if we did this, since there are plenty of people who have connections and who might be willing to do this, that we could arrange a similar method for ensuring stability and that the whole thing doesn't come crashing down everytime someone's cable or DSL connection goes down momentarily. For example, if a server goes off of the "CCC Network" for a little bit, the users from that network could get transfered over to one of the other servers, and continue uninterupted. I don't know how realistic this is, but surely there is some method that could ensure this thing being reliable. Russell
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