Posts by Steve096

Quote: Originally Posted by Artikbot Hardware RAIDs tend to perform better. Does your board allow to set up a RAID5 array natively? I can't afford hardware RAID and my mobo has no integrated RAID. I know...

Quote: Originally Posted by Artikbot Wait, my USB stick performed better than that... O.O Using dedicated controller or just onboard one? Most onbards tend to f*ck things up when more than 2 drives are present on the...

I recently set up a 3 TB software RAID 5 array using Ubuntu 10.04 on 3 WD 1.5 TB green hard drives. All 3 drives were first run through the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic extended test and passed. The OS is installed to a 32 GB SSD and the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Nude_Lewd_Man If your friend's computer is inside your LAN, then this is something within your LAN that is stopping/blocking the traffic.... Here is an example of what I can show you after I...

I've downloaded wireshark and am playing around with it, but I don't have much experience with some of these finer points of networking. How could I use this program to test whether or not a port is open?

Update: I tried running a ubuntu livecd on a computer hooked up directly to the modem and it STILL wont work. I got very desperate and tried calling my ISP tech support (who are notorious for not being helpful at all). After spending...

Thank you for your suggestions I enabled telnet and tried connecting to a friends computer, and it still fails every time. After I enter the command it says: Code: Connecting to (ip address)...Could not open connection to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by BodyShield Simple solution to your problem. Buy a static IP from your ISP. What your are experiencing is likely a result of your ISPs NAT firewall server. These servers often selectively...

Not sure where to begin with this, so I'll start with how it happened. Last night I downloaded the latest version of the torrent program I use, Deluge 1.2.2. I built the new version from source (This is on ubuntu 9.04), deleted the...

Yay! It has begun (again)! Loving it so far and can't wait for more