Subject: Slow up/download from Berkeley SETI@home...
From: "Nick M V Salmon" <spam_dump@btinternet.com>
Date: 04/09/2003, 00:58
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Hi all

Just now had a look at the 'connections' graphic in my SetiQueue - I've been
getting a lot of 'failed connections' since August 22nd am, which coincides
exactly with the failure of that CPU at Berkeley noted on their front page -
looks as if that's why folks running the CLI 'standalone' have been seeing a
lot of 'can't connect, waiting an hour' type messages.

I dunno if August 22nd also correlates with the release of all those worms
'into the wild' though..?

Looks like about 32 'failed connections' compared to 150 'good connections'
per day - ie. about 17.5% of all connections are failing at the moment.

Before August 22nd there were occasional 'failed connection' peaks in the
preceding three months but they were few and far between - this last couple
of weeks there is a thick red band of 'failures' every day...

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...
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