More HE Problems ????

I wonder if we are looking at more "HE Problems".

For the last few days downloads have been very slow. We have all been blaming AP's, outage recovery etc. etc.

BUT. Thanks to a suggestion from "Kirdnem(Vince)" I switched to a proxy at around 0930Z on Sunday. Downloads immediately picked up and started to come through at a good rate of knots with very few errors and timeouts. Across my rigs I was able to download approx 3,000 hung MB WU's in under 4 hours.

At around the same time it was reported in the "Panic Mode" thread that downloads had picked up so I switched one rig back to direct to see what was happening. The difference was amazing. Downloads were coming though on the direct path but they were slow, no more than around 2.5kBs and there was still around a 50% failure rate due to "http errors" and "failure to connect()" errors etc..

Through the proxy it was a totally different story, downloads were coming through at speeds of up to 50kBs and averaging 25kBs, errors were down to less than 5%. Also upload speed had doubled compared to the direct path.

The odd thing is that pings and trace routes to the servers didn't look too bad, packet loss was around normal and the ping times were acceptable considering the heavy traffic.

The above was still the case at 1700Z. Computers on the direct path were struggling to get through while those on the proxy were having very little trouble. All computers are connected to my home network and I tried each of my 6 rigs on both paths with the same results all round.

T.A.

Recently most of the transfers I see are in the sub 5kbps range. However I do randomly see faster ones up to 100kbps. With the bandwidth maxed out things are expected to be slow with 42% chance of rain.
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I wonder if it would be possible to set a browser to use the same proxy, and then use a web-based traceroute like net tools to work out the difference between the direct and proxy routes?

Recently most of the transfers I see are in the sub 5kbps range. However I do randomly see faster ones up to 100kbps. With the bandwidth maxed out things are expected to be slow with 42% chance of rain.

Yup, same here, tried the proxy at 69.163.96.2:8080, got 40KBps with no problems. Went back to default, at best 2KBps, and then it hangs.

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I wonder if it would be possible to set a browser to use the same proxy, and then use a web-based traceroute like net tools to work out the difference between the direct and proxy routes?

Recently most of the transfers I see are in the sub 5kbps range. However I do randomly see faster ones up to 100kbps. With the bandwidth maxed out things are expected to be slow with 42% chance of rain.

You missed the point of my post, through the proxy, download speeds were consistently 10X higher than what they were direct. There was no randomness about it, those results were observed over an 8 hour period, maxxed out Crickets not withstanding.

T.A.

Recently most of the transfers I see are in the sub 5kbps range. However I do randomly see faster ones up to 100kbps. With the bandwidth maxed out things are expected to be slow with 42% chance of rain.

You missed the point of my post, through the proxy, download speeds were consistently 10X higher than what they were direct. There was no randomness about it, those results were observed over an 8 hour period, maxxed out Crickets not withstanding.

T.A.

I understood what you were saying. I was just trying to share what I have seen & adding a note of how screwy things can be while we are maxed out.

I gave a proxy, 69.163.96.2:8080, a try to see if I would get the issue you are observing. However I got the same throughput with both settings in the 30-50k range. Now I'm out of downloads with my limits reached. Granted I had < 10 on each machine.

Yup, same here, tried the proxy at 69.163.96.2:8080, got 40KBps with no problems. Went back to default, at best 2KBps, and then it hangs.

I got another download and I gave the download servers in the hosts file and using .13 I couldn't download anything and .18 was fine. I don't normally have any issues when this is acting us as my router sorts this out for me.

208.68.240.13 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu
208.68.240.18 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu

Edit: Also when the router was barfing all over itself before I didn't have any issues on my home connection. My work connection was unable to connect for some time, but it is currently w/o any issues it looks like.
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Holy WTFragglemeister???
Just tried the proxy here on a rig that was struggling to download.
Zoom zoom zoom go the kitties.

How is this possible?
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Holy WTFragglemeister???
Just tried the proxy here on a rig that was struggling to download.
Zoom zoom zoom go the kitties.

How is this possible?

That proxy certainly has a good line into the servers.
Recently been struggling to get data through, lots of re-tries, back-offs and all. Try the proxy and ZOOOOMMMMMMM, straight through, no messing, speed 40-60k compared with not a lot.
There's certainly something "not right" just now in the direct path betwixt me in the UK (on Virgin Media) and the S@H servers in Berkeley.

(Just had one go through on the proxy at >100k!!!!!)
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Same thing for me here in Northern Arizona, straight connection slow and backing off, proxy is just coming down with no problem.
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If somebody could look into this proxy and how it is connecting to the Seti servers, it might give some very good insights as to what the project's comms bottlenecks are.

I assume this proxy is connecting through the same PAIX router that was just upgraded, but is somehow being very efficient in getting data from the Seti servers.

The Cricket graph shows no change, and I know that only a handful of us have tried this proxy, but somehow it is achieving transfer rates on downloads that are amazing.
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As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

I'm going to leave the proxy on for a few hours to see if its still struttin' its stuff in the morning (UK time).
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Wow!

Steve
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Wow!

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