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We tested the 4v4 earlier tonight and it did well. Is the PB update being pushed through Steam? I didn’t have to update to get on it.
Also, all locally hosted servers are configured and ready.
Geronimo said:
I think sponsors will be easier to get once your group becomes more active in the forums and activities such as the LAN parties. Most sponsors will get an idea of how active a group is by trolling visiting the website site and looking thru your forums.Interestingly enough, I posting something almost verbatim to this in the exec section a month ago
The current management feels that a Facebook group is enough of a web presence and has shifted much of their efforts there rather than here. Maybe now that some professionals are weighing in with opinions similar to ours we can change that.
It’s extremely rare for a wireless device made for consoles to work with a PC. Even when libraries are released for them it takes a significant amount of emulation to make them interact with PCs in a meaningful way, enough that the delay created makes gaming with them useless.
Before my HD crashed a couple years back I had a map of the campus fiber network, pictures from all the network closets, model numbers for almost every switch and gateway on campus, and the IP assignments for all the buildings. Unfortunately I chose Maxtor for my data storage needs and, well, yeah.
Dustin said:
over break the school spent over 100k$ on a package/bandwidth management machine to fix the internet.
Can you PM me more details on this?
And yeah, the computer gamers on campus are hard to reach. Your best bet is to plaster as many fliers as possible in the dorms, they DO have to come out of their rooms for food, booze, and classes (sometimes). Some CS majors need to come out more often for showers but that’s neither here nor there
Derrick LeBrocq said:
Me, actually.
I’m just going to say it was Liam and give him the credit. He’s a little less Canad…. nevermind
The school’s internet provider is NCREN, basically a dedicated OC network that interconnects almost all the K-12, community colleges, and universities in NC. WCU has a dedicated OC12 pipe that hits the normal internet in Durham.
I just tried pinging some of leetservers’ test IPs and the latency to Atlanta should be acceptable for LAN gameplay. The average was around 30ms.
Dustin said:
i have the banners for ddd/leetservers. give me ur email or something
Please email those to gaming@wcu.edu and Adam or Liam can add them.
Phonetically Phamous (dice said:
and MP, allready see you got a banner up on the site. Nice work by all
That wasn’t me. Was probably Liam.
@ Willi: This is an extremely generous offer and let me be the first, well 3rd by now, to say THANK YOU!
Dustin said:
IMPORTANT:
SOME GAME COMPANIES ONLY ALLOW TRUSTED SERVERS WITH CONTRACTS TO HOST THEIR GAMES, THEY CAN HOST BFBC2 AND MORE.
EA/DICE does not allow clans or unaffilieated datacenters to host BF2/BFBC2 servers. They are extremely strict with this so it’s highly unlikely DDD is allowed to host their own. They likely have to rent them just like everyone else.
If they’re willing to sponsor a BFBC2 server for us that would be awesome. Post more details when you get them and we’ll link them up as a sponsor. Even if we aren’t allowed our own, a common place to play with a friendly atmosphere is just good. It’s a rare trait these days.
The whole point of a LAN is to play on locally hosted servers <_>
As much as I like BFBC2 and as epic a LAN game it could be, it really shouldn’t even be an option since DICE doesn’t allow local or privately owned dedicated servers.
Below are the metrics I took from Atari BEFORE the new filter. I retested a few and the numbers are, well, terrible. Take what’s below and triple the latency and cut the bandwidth in half. Keep in mind these are raw metrics and do not take into account datacenter-induced lag, which for most gaming datacenters is an additional 20-50ms.
FROM WCU:
To Charlotte – 6ms, 47.51M down x 28.31M up
To Atlanta – 23ms, 25.32M down x 32.02M up
To New York City – 28ms, 39.82M down x 32.58M up
To Miami – 51ms, 37.49M down x 24.82M up
To Las Vegas – 72ms, 12.41M down x 19.52M up
To Aberdeen – 121ms, 7.70M down x 3.87M up
To Paris – 111ms, 10.47M down x 11.26M up
To Frankfurt – 125ms, 8.92M down x 4.64M up
To Moscow – 301ms, 5.33M down x 2.13M up
To Sydney – 472ms, 3.05M down x .75M up
Remember ping = x3 and BW = x .5
I smell another cancelled tournament
A positive opinion of alumni isn’t popular right now. If your plan is to get elected you should be trash talking us at every turn for our high crimes
Thanks for posting the info.
One note on fliers, the week and a half is very ideal. When done that early people have a full week to clear their schedules to come. People are less likely to show up to any event when they’re only given a few days notice. Well almost any event, I had less than a days notice before my last midterm
So how exactly are you guys going to host this? The closest server location is Atlanta and the 20 hop lag on that wouldn’t be ideal for a LAN.
Nickname said:
rainefardreamer said:
i blame nickname
it is all my fault i admit itLet’s all point and laugh at the Microsoft fanboy!
oh wait…
Lemm said:
uh yeah.. ha ha
It’s just the series. WD has 5 consumer lines, Black, Blue, Green, RE, and VelociRaptor. All can be quickly identified by sticker colors, the first 3 are obvious and the RE and VR series have yellow stickers.
Black = high performance
Blue = midgrade performance
Green = low performance + powersaving (still very fast in
RE = high performance + high reliability (only series that WD guarantees RAID compatibility)
VR = extreme performance
JShank said:
ya mitch i wanted the 5870 but everywhere i looked was out of stock at the moment
LOL
That’s how I ended up with one, all the midrange Nvidias were out of stock. Newegg, Tiger, Zipzoom, even checked Amazon.
You know, I’m starting to wonder if people actually buy the 5770 out of desire for one or out of necessity due to weak inventories.
That’s fine, the way I’ve been playing L4D2 lately I can totally understand not being called awesome. In fact, I don’t even play anymore, too many $5 specials.
I do not, however, smell. At all. Well, ok, maybe if I exercise but we all know how often that happens
JShank said:
1TB WD Caviar Black HDD SATA III 6GB/s
You will not be disappointed, WD Black is great.
JShank said:
Sapphire Radeon HD5770
You will most definately be disappointed. I hate my XFX 5770. The card itself is fine and you can get around 10% of stable overclock on it but ATI absolutely sucks at writing drivers. Seriously, I’ve written network adapter drivers that were more stable.
On the whole, you shouldn’t need to upgrade for at least a year. The 5770 is fine for now but it’s going to be the first thing you’re going to want to upgrade. The nVidia lineup keeps getting better and better so hopefully by the time you and me need to upgrade they’ll have another 8800GT-style of epic card available
Oh yeah, the coding and features of MS Server are much better than their client OS’s. For instance, in Enterprise/Datacenter editions the 32bit versions support (and fully utilize) up to 64GB of ram. Server03 Enterprise/Datacenter could also do this. 32bit doesn’t limit you to 4GB, as is the common misconception, it only limits you to 4GB if the OS uses the standard (aka ancient) paging system.
Feature comparison, interesting read.
http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/sample/DOMIS/update/2008/02feb/0208ws2plp_ch.htm
Well, yeah. Win7 x64 Pro/Ent/Ult have a max of 192GB. Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premium have maxes of 2GB, 8GB, and 16GB respectively.
I’m still impressed with Server08 Datacenter, supports CPU and RAM hotswapping. FTW
Don’t get me wrong, Sandy Bridge is a nice logical step in the Core-i series but there’s way too many limitations on old-school use for me to ever consider buying one for myself. In fact, if Intel stays on this path I doubt I’ll be an intel fanboy much longer. Locking the CPU clock with the system bus clock is done for 1 single reason, to prevent overclocking. Unless intel plans on lowering their locked CPUs to match the prices of their AMD equivalents I can’t see them staying in dominance much longer.
Yeah but Mac pushes the turboboost feature pretty heavily without mentioning the inherent limitations of it. Since OSX now streams across all available cores, turboboost is essentially useless. The only time turboboost helps is when using single-threaded applications.
And I really have a hard time believing that Sandy Bridge is 2x faster than the nehalem series but hey it’s rare that I believe Apple advertising so that’s nothing new <_>
I also find it hard to believe that the ATI 6750M is 3x better than the Nvidia GT 330M but I’m just splitting hairs at this point.
Nickname said:
Then on the other side of things my friend from work is going to go buy one of the new macbook pros that were just announced yesterday. Say what you want about them, but they are still *edited* nice computers. And here I am with my crappy dell vostro laptop and grrrrr i want new stuff I hate being poor!
He actually wants a Sandy Bridge Mac? And you didn’t tell him all the drawbacks to the CPU?
Bad, Mike. Bad.
And yeah, you’ll never need more than 8GB of ram, 9GB if you’ve got tri-channel. If the price difference was really $20 then yeah why not but I’ve got 8GB and the only time I ever come close is when I’m doing VM testing.
