Is your internet uncapped ?

[Haltech]

I'm not actually running my crunching rig on the wireless, just one laptop and very infrequently. main rig is hardwired into the Linksys, which is now the wireless access point instead of the Actiontec. so basically it's a double-NAT setup I guess.

sorry I'm such a complete networking noob, but if I understand it, I should set my NIC to a static IP and just route everything that way?

everything from the Linksys NAT>> Actiontec>>ip should all be on the WAN side now, correct?

Yes.. set you nics to static, including the IP, DNS X 2, Gateway and submask

[hawkeyefan]

Yes.. set you nics to static, including the IP, DNS X 2, Gateway and submask

thanks for the clarification Haltech, don't mean to waste you time with noobish questions

I really do appreciate the help...this is the first time I've networked anything...entered a static ip...all new to me

[hawkeyefan]

@Haltech

thanks again for the guidance...made some changes, put Actiontec in transparent bridging and managed to get connection working with Linksys handling PPPoE authentication and WAN-side DHCP server (even though it's a PPPoA service )

anyway, that got me out from behind the double NAT which was making port forwarding too difficult. setup as static ip as you suggested so no DHCP on LAN side anymore.

any suggestions for maxing out connection other than putting up more rigs? I'm within 400-600Kb/s of my max speed with 200 workers and 50 buckets. If I check "persistent connections" the timeouts start increasing again.

I suppose I need to learn how to use VM? :/

[Martijn]

I suppose I need to learn how to use VM? :/

Yep, you get the max out of one rig by using VMWare. It is really easy to set up, although it does use a significant amount of ram. Have a look in the Dimes section.

[hawkeyefan]

Yep, you get the max out of one rig by using VMWare. It is really easy to set up, although it does use a significant amount of ram. Have a look in the Dimes section.

I was completely confused the first time I read the VM sticky, I'll go through it again, these are things I really need to learn how to do.

thx Martijn

[hawkeyefan]

wow, I raised the connection speed to well above Qwest's stated limit for my service and am getting up into the 4mb/s+ range on occaison.

watching the graph, bandwidth use seems to fluctuate quite a bit over the course of 20 minutes. Is this normal, or should download bandwith be more consistent? I realize using Persistent Connections would help in that regard, but I can't because of the timouts

[Haltech]

Glad you got it worked out. MJ12 has yet to saturate my line... it needs more clients, whcih im not about to do.. im unloading my current A64 farm in favor of higher powered, more energy friendly conroes.

[hawkeyefan]

Glad you got it worked out. MJ12 has yet to saturate my line... it needs more clients, whcih im not about to do.. im unloading my current A64 farm in favor of higher powered, more energy friendly conroes.

yeah that's some line you've got there, lol. wft is that, T3 or something?

You know I've been pricing out cheap crunching boxen and pretty much came to the same conclusion. Conroe really does look to be best bang/buck by a good margin. I was thinking a rig or two based on budget E6300, any reason to go with a different chip?

now I am curious to see whether this RHT noise is BS or for real. would make a budget AM2 X2 3600+ rig an option imho.