This mail contains some business sensitive info so please KEEP it private.
Right then, first some light info so you understand whats going on. Try and read this without your brains liquefying as you stand to benefit with privileged bandwidth when playing on homer.
Johnny blue hat guide to Crosswired LTDs network.
Crosswired has two connections for internet bandwidth from two providers.
PROVIDER A
Big phat pipe, loads of bandwidth , they charge us on the amount of traffic passed through the pipe on a monthly basis .
PROVIDER B
We have a 512Kbit/s link with them. Now let me explain... this isn't like the shite 512Kbit link you may have from your ISP at home.... no this is high quality bandwidth not your "John Player Special" quality crap you have at home. FYI by accident (my fault) 95% of the traffic for our friendly M3 match the other day was going just through this link!!! ok so there was some loss but thats pretty good considering there were 14 high bandwidth players on there....
Provider B only charges us a flat rate as after all we have finite bandwidth with them, so there are no nasty surprises , they charge us a fair whack for this but its really good quality with little latency .
"So, now I've read that shite how does it help me?"
To try and improve things I've set homer to route the outbound games traffic through PROVIDER A
However to ease the bandwidth burden hence costs with PROVIDER A I want to route some of our (dMW) members traffic via PROVIDER B. PROVIDER B is a better transit provider with much better quality bandwidth so those of us using PROVIDER B will enjoy a good game.
To get on the privileged list I need your internet IP address. I know many of us have dynamic IPs, in my and Doggers case I've narrowed it down to the IPs used by telewest for the Walsall/Wolverhampton areas.... If you have a fixed IP for your home machine then even better.
If you don't have a clue what I'm on about then go to this web site http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1ck2l2 (http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1ck2l2) , this is actually a handy website that checks you PCs internet presence for vulnerabilities, however it also shows you your current IP address too!
Of course you could also open a dos prompt and type "ipconfig /all". Thats even better as it will list your ip and network/netmask which is exactly what I need.
FYI, to date its been in the lap of the Gods as to which provider homer traffic is carried over, which is why performance is good sometimes and poorer at other times (all traffic going via one provider?).
Regards,
Stryker
Understand fully m8! :D Here is my info (Donkey is also on this as he shares the same conn)
It is a fixed IP.
PPP adapter One.Tel:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 212.38.183.233
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 212.38.183.233
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 212.38.173.190
212.38.173.189
Me 'n' Frenzy are currently on:
213.105.33.189
But it's dynamic :(
But it hardly ever changes :D
right, here is what I found on you oldie. I deleted out the letters of the location, cant remember if you give that away or not :-)
inetnum: 213.105.32.0 - 213.105.35.255
netname: NTL
descr: NTL Internet - C******* POP site
That is just a small block of IPs for the area (like with me and barry) so I'll add just that block. You don't have to worry about your ip changing.
Ta.
On that note thats (me, doggers, gandy, smite, oldie/frenzy). I'll leave it at that for the time being.
Cheers mate. 8)
Well my details are:
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 213.121.10.40
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 213.121.10.40
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 194.74.65.68
194.72.9.34
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
Hope this helps.......give me band width......please....... :D
8O forgot to say - I guess I'm on a dynamic IP (BT's HH).
Done tealeaf.
Your IP range is a large chunk of BTs dialups so anyone in your half of the cuntry may well be on those IPs too.... see how it goes.
:pimp:
i'm in DOS (grrr :evil: stop :evil: doing :evil: that! :evil: dammit! :evil:) and so i type ipconfig/all and it comes up with some IP info first, which is what you're looking for i think, but then it disappears up top as it runs up lots of ethernet info below as well.
How can i get it to only show the info you actually need? And copy it too?
i'm afraid i'm a bit of a spanner when it comes to dealing with this old fashioned malarky...
:D Thanks Stryker......
Hey mister eggs, use the same trick you used to give me that file list. Use "ipconfig /all > eggsonline.txt". Then mail me the eggsonline.txt file that has been created in the directory you are in when you issued the command.