QrooniX

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Smart Bro Update

Now I know why a lot of users are complaining about Smart Bro's services. Here's one of my tests:

Packets: Sent = 367, Received = 222, Lost = 145 (39% loss)

// posted by qroon @ 12:43 AM 2 comments

Friday, May 26, 2006

Picasa for Linux

Google 'ported' it's photo tool Picasa to Linux. 'Ported' because it relies on WINE, much like native Win32 apps running on Linux. Thing is, the link is not available outside the U.S., might as well use proxies like WebWarper. Here is the WebWarper link to Picasa for Linux download.

// posted by qroon @ 7:53 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

More Smart BRO

Below are the results from different bandwidth meters:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 287 Kbps about 0.29 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Download Speed is:: 35 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Server 2)
Test Time:: 2006/05/17 - 7:04am
Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 29.26 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 16.531 seconds to complete
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060404 SeaMonkey/1.0.1
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 79.5 % of your hosts average (183.218)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-6OLT5BWIF

SpeakEasy.net
Download Speed: 254 kbps (31.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 221 kbps (27.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

BandWidthPlace.com
Communications 258.1 kilobits per second
Storage 31.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 32.5 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre

// posted by qroon @ 8:11 PM 6 comments

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Get SeaMonkey

From the SeaMonkey Project Page

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for corporate use.

// posted by qroon @ 12:05 AM 0 comments

Monday, May 15, 2006

Smart BRO

So, Smart BRO (fixed wireless broadband) was already installed at my place. The connection is intermittent. It's fast when connection is available. Imagine a Nissan Sentra trekking the Pinatubo slopes. My gripes:

Private IP Address (I can't put up a small live web/mail server)
Unreliable connection (below is the result of traceroute):

1 7 ms 4 ms 7 ms 192.168.XXX.1
3 11 ms * * 203.87.252.1
4 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms 203.87.128.91
5 11 ms 14 ms 17 ms 210.5.65.97
6 * 48 ms * 58.71.0.141
7 176 ms * * POS3-2.IG3.SAC1.ALTER.NET [157.130.195.181]
8 * 175 ms * 0.so-2-2-0.XL1.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.54.122]
9 * 187 ms * 0.so-5-0-0.XL1.SCL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.57.41]
10 * 179 ms * 0.so-6-0-0.BR1.SCL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.57.49]
11 * 194 ms 191 ms 204.255.174.54
12 * * 179 ms svx-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.214.133]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * 181 ms pax-edge-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.214.30]
15 * 190 ms 189 ms 72.165.46.26
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * 190 ms 72.14.233.131
18 195 ms * 197 ms 216.239.49.146
19 * 186 ms * 66.102.7.147
20 * 188 ms 191 ms 66.102.7.147