After years of solid performance things are starting to crumble. All summer I was able to regularly hit 27mbps peaks with Comcast’s delayed packet shaping (aka PowerBoost) and then things would lock in right at 8mbps after being shaped. Over the last couple weeks things have degraded until they hit a new low tonight:

–19:51:21– http://cluster/100mb.bin
Connecting to cluster:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin’

1% [ ] 1,328,952 79.1K/s eta 20m 38s

It’s a sad day when my 3mbps DSL service kicks 8mbps cable Internet’s ass.

What the heck is this?

… just to recreate this video!

My name is not all that horribly common.  Can I please rank somewhere in the first 4 pages for a search on “Eric Spaeth”?  I realize there are a few other people with the same name but there’s not enough of us to have my personal website for me, Eric Spaeth, end up on page 10 of the search results!

Thanks in advance!

Eric Spaeth

Edit: Bumping this back up to the front page again so google will stop hating me.

This game should help you waste time quite nicely.

I’m sure most people have seen this, but here’s a great commerical from Sprint.

Who says Cisco engineers don't have a sense of humor?

Here is the link to the MP3.

Lyrics here:

Packets dropping...
Console locking...
Boss is knocking...

GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
and the router's in disarray
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
Now I think it's time to RMA

GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
and they're never going to be the same
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
gotta find an SE to blame

Pinging with no reply
Pinging with no reply

You got your STM
over 1310
You got your SRP
which is DPT

You got your Sonet Rings connected via DPT
You got your OC3's to your ISP

Oh, fiber cut, ports are shut, man this sucks

GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
and the router's in disarray
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
Now I think it's time to RMA
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
and they're never going to be the same
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
gotta find an SE to blame

Pinging with no reply
Pinging with no reply
You got your Single Mode
you got your Multimode
you got your GBICs
and your new ASICs
You had a fiber cut and your service dipped
and it's all running through the same conduit
Oh, field notice, please help us, failed bus

GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
and the router's in disarray
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
Now I think it's time to RMA
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
and they're never going to be the same
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again
gotta find an SE to blame

[PAUSE - Ad Lib sayings ]
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (packets dropping)
and the router's in disarray (console locking)
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (boss is knocking)
Now I think it's time to RMA
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (pinging with no reply)
and they're never going to be the same (pinging with no reply)
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (pinging with no reply)
damaging the passive backplane (pinging with no reply)
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (packets dropping)
and the router's in disarray (console locking)
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (boss is knocking)
Now I think it's time to RMA
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (pinging with no reply)
and they're never going to be the same (pinging with no reply)
GigE ports down, wait, now they're up again (pinging with no reply)
damaging the passive backplane (pinging with no reply)
...[FADE]