Netdimes

sno.lcn · Mar 10, 2006

to teh DIME!
I don't know if it does better with a higher bandwidth(excluding dialup of course) I have an 8mb connection at my house and DIMES seems to be doing pretty well. I'm sure there's a definate answer to your question somewhere. I'll try to find out, but by that time, I'm sure someone else will have an answer for you

*Edit: I just read on their homepage that it barely uses any bandwidth.

What we ask is not so much your CPU or bandwidth (which we hardly consume), but rather, your location.

sno.lcn · Mar 10, 2006

TollhouseFrank said:
guys.. we are up to #73 in the world!

#64 now!

jcw122 · Mar 10, 2006

mdameron said:
Diming now. I joined up when I heard it doesn't use much CPU... I don't fold cause my chip will sit at 62C, no thanks. With a TON of stuff open, (AV, steam, firefox, etc.), my cpu is between 0-2%. Not a bad gig.

I'm on college internet, (dual DS3's sounds right...) you think your rig will do more work the more bandwidth you have? I'll borg my GF's comp since it doesn't use the CPU.

You can set the amount of bandwidth...I don't remember the mimimum but the Maxiumum is 51kb/s or something.

mdameron · Mar 10, 2006

borged the laptop. gonna get my gf's soon too. will have 3 comps on fast internet going. i'll see if i can tweak the bandwidth.

jcw122 · Mar 10, 2006

mdameron said:
borged the laptop. gonna get my gf's soon too. will have 3 comps on fast internet going. i'll see if i can tweak the bandwidth.

Awesome, it's in the Network settings.

BTW, MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL OR UPGRADE TO VERSION 4.3!! That way you can login to an online control panel...and have nearly full control over ALL clients, that way you don't need to go back to them (phsyically) when they are having problems, or you wanna upgrade them later.

sno.lcn · Mar 10, 2006

To be honest, I've never even looked at the preferences settings for DIMES. If I turn my bandwidth to max and time between measurements all the way down should that give me better pointage?

mdameron · Mar 10, 2006

^^^ I just did that... we'll know soon enough! I maxed the bandwidth, and set minimum for time inbetween tests.

jcw122 · Mar 10, 2006

sno.lcn said:
To be honest, I've never even looked at the preferences settings for DIMES. If I turn my bandwidth to max and time between measurements all the way down should that give me better pointage?

I'm not sure about bandwidth, but for seconds between measurements, DEFINATELY. The default is 31 seconds IIRC...you can go down to 15...that's doubling your production time.

mdameron · Mar 10, 2006

Jcw, i got the latest version off the website, would that be 4.3? i'll look now.

no it's not, 0.4.2

TollhouseFrank · Mar 10, 2006

as for the bandwidth... here is how i do it...

take you upstream, divide by 10. Add 10, and set that as your max speed up. Anything more and you don't gain much at all.

jcw122 · Mar 10, 2006

mdameron said:
Jcw, i got the latest version off the website, would that be 4.3? i'll look now.

no it's not, 0.4.2

Yes, 4.3 is the latest.

orionlion82 · Mar 10, 2006

ummm, i have a question.

so say we have the cheap dsl.
and say its split 3 ways.
and allso say that our router locks up if you so much as give it dirty looks, let alone beg for bandwith.
is netdimes something that would still be sensible in my situation, considering?

TollhouseFrank · Mar 10, 2006

Hmmm.. I had 3 machines at once DIMEing away for a bit (till one of them up and died on me... *sniff*).

Had no problems. It uses hardly any bandwidth at all. The only thing I would say try is put it on 1 machine at first....

oh yes, what are your speeds on the DSL? that is how you configure the client (by telling it how long to do it's work against what your upload speed is).

sno.lcn · Mar 10, 2006

If you're concerned with bandwidth, you can turn it down in the DIMES prefs.
I haven't noticed any bandwidth loss on my connection.

orionlion82 · Mar 10, 2006

so then if none of us really know what our upload speed is ,and guess wrong, we would be sending back bad data?

sno.lcn · Mar 10, 2006

TollhouseFrank said:
Hmmm.. I had 3 machines at once DIMEing away for a bit (till one of them up and died on me... *sniff*).

So does that mean I'm FINALLY going to start catching up with you Frank?
But I DO hope you get your rig back up though

BTW, Did anyone else notice that [H]ardOCP has 2 teams? One is way above us and one is just under us.

TollhouseFrank · Mar 10, 2006

I noticed. I think they created 2 of them at the same time... and the one by himself doesn't want to switch over to the other team.

khiloa · Mar 10, 2006

Interesting project, I'll probably try it sometime, but it has to use java, eek. :-/

sno.lcn · Mar 10, 2006

I changed the measurement interval thingy on my 3 DIMEing rigs and my points do seem to be going up quite a bit faster now

sno.lcn · Mar 11, 2006

The team 1 ahead of us only has 2 people but look at this one dude's rig count => http://netdimes.org/data.php?user=1017

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