More bandwidth has arrived
Friday, June 15, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
With the WinCustomize CD nearly ready, WinCustomize has purchased (for a month) more bandwidth. Hopefully you can already tell the difference in speed.
DavidK
Reply #2 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:37 PM
Reply #2 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:37 PM
I see a difference... I finally downloaded a Nuvem wallpaper that I gave up on earlier after 20 minutes. Cable modem or DSL didn't seem to help. I tried both and it's been painfully slow.
Hooray!!
Hooray!!
DavidK
Reply #3 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:39 PM
Reply #3 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:39 PM
oops, guess I'll wait for crae to give back some bandwidth 
DavidK waits impatiently by the basement door... "are you done in there yet??"
DavidK waits impatiently by the basement door... "are you done in there yet??"
craeonics
Reply #4 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:43 PM
Reply #4 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:43 PM
craeonics leaves David just a few frops of bandwidth
Here you go, that should be enough.
Here you go, that should be enough.
thecat2000
Reply #6 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:49 PM
Reply #6 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:49 PM
...Wish they could do some thing about the band width problems on deviantart ! [rrrr!] it is very,very,very,very,slowwww.. I gave up trying to upload there in the end. 
YaY! to frogboy ! I see the difference already it is much better.
YaY! to frogboy ! I see the difference already it is much better.
Einstein
Reply #7 Friday, June 15, 2001 7:05 PM
Reply #7 Friday, June 15, 2001 7:05 PM
As soon as I find a job I'll purchase the CD. THat is for two reasons. 1) I want to help the best skinning community on the planet 2) I will have a virgin PC that will need all the skins and then some.
BoXXi
Reply #8 Friday, June 15, 2001 7:32 PM
Reply #8 Friday, June 15, 2001 7:32 PM
I have no problems with speed either here or at Devart, and I only have a 56k modem, and it isn't even a V90 standard, just a k56 flex. Strange isn't it? Could it be something to do with individual ISP's?
Eat my dust suckers, heh!.
Eat my dust suckers, heh!.
l0c
Reply #10 Friday, June 15, 2001 9:00 PM
Reply #10 Friday, June 15, 2001 9:00 PM
Very good to see how dedicated Stardock has become to this project and how integral it is to their future.
We might of not seen eye to eye on a few things but I must say on a high level I am very happy to see the way things have developed.
Long live Wincustomize!
( maybe I shouldn't say that being that it didn't work to well for skinz
)
P.S. Very big thanks to Alexandrie as I know she has been the one that dedicated the most to this project.
We might of not seen eye to eye on a few things but I must say on a high level I am very happy to see the way things have developed.
Long live Wincustomize!
( maybe I shouldn't say that being that it didn't work to well for skinz
)P.S. Very big thanks to Alexandrie as I know she has been the one that dedicated the most to this project.
DavidK
Reply #12 Saturday, June 16, 2001 4:52 AM
Reply #12 Saturday, June 16, 2001 4:52 AM
hey it's running pretty good now! the wee hours of the morning seems to help... or maybe crae fell asleep
Valhalla
Reply #13 Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:47 AM
Reply #13 Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:47 AM
I'm not sure if it's just the time of the day but at the moment the site seems to be FLYING!
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
Frogboy
Reply #14 Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:21 AM
Reply #14 Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:21 AM
We trippled the site's bandwidth yesterday, that's why it's fast now.
The site was just too slow so we went ahead and got more bandwidth on the assumption that the CD which goes out on Monday will sell reasonably well. Hopefully in a month we're not back to where we were.
The site was just too slow so we went ahead and got more bandwidth on the assumption that the CD which goes out on Monday will sell reasonably well.
Hopefully in a month we're not back to where we were. 
Frogboy
Reply #16 Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:02 PM
Reply #16 Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:02 PM
It wold almost be worth uploading a screenshot of our bandwidth graph. It was maxed out for days straight and then we added it and then boom it jumped way up. That's why it was so slow, we weren't even close to having enough bandwidth. Which is amazing because if someone told me a year ago that we'd have this much bandwidth I would have laughed.
It was so painful doing anything on the site though, on my cable modem I was downloading at 3K per second. Today I downloaded a DX theme at 240K per second.
It was so painful doing anything on the site though, on my cable modem I was downloading at 3K per second. Today I downloaded a DX theme at 240K per second.
Third Eye
Reply #17 Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:19 PM
Reply #17 Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:19 PM
Frogboy - The site was just too slow so we went ahead and got more bandwidth on the assumption that the CD which goes out on Monday will sell reasonably well. Hopefully in a month we're not back to where we were.
ie: Buy the CD or else
Hopefully in a month we're not back to where we were. ie: Buy the CD or else
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Reply #1 Friday, June 15, 2001 6:34 PM
craeonics sucks up the bandwidth
But now that you mention it, it does appear faster. Not that the bandwidth is going to have any impact whatsoever when one is on a p75 with 6k/s cable modem...