Red Alloy Wire on a Server

[FalseTetrabyte]

I can't really decide which forum to put this under since it's not really a bug report per se, more of a post confirming what others have already mentioned online about the red alloy wire and it's ability to make mere mortal's ISP's scream in terror.

Through the graciousness of a good situation, I have a Tekkit Server (running dynmap and that's about it) on a quad core Xeon with a fat pipeline (speeds in excess of 50 megs both ways on the server) with 6GB of RAM allocated to the system.

Now that you know what the hardware hosting Tekkit is, let me move on to why I'm posting here.

I recently moved - my former address had Comcast Small Business Cable (22 meg down, 5 meg up) but the new address has no access to cable, and I have to put up with crappy DSL. My downloads are 7 meg, and my uploads are a mere 864 kilobits. Ouch.

Same as I did before with the Cable, I run my home network on a hybrid pfSense/Windows Small Business Server (DHCP/DNS respectively) setup.

My DSL benchmarks well. I get my full rated speed down AND up, and everything aside from Tekkit is happy.

But for the love of Pete and his holy monkey, god help me if I'm anywhere NEAR red alloy wire. It doesn't even need to be turned on! (as most of the posts online I've seen say that it creates lag spikes when you turn something on OR off, but usually just ON)

I was playing tonight as I usually do after work, and as often happens at my house lately, I get disconnected just about every time I make a change to the world through whatever I'm building.

I had my dynmap view open, so I closed that and tried to play some more. Drat. Still logging me off. What's funny is that while the usage was up there, my bandwidth usage on the up and down weren't all that bad.

So I did some further investigating - the project that I'm currently trying does use quite a bit of red alloy wire (unshielded) so when I logged in again, I pulled up my pfsense traffic graph and watched my usage as I started removing the red alloy wire. Again, this is wire that is inert - no current actively triggered.

I'll let the graph speak for itself. I was still connected to the server at the time of the graph, and ever since I took this screenshot, I have NOT been logged off, which would happen sometimes even if I was just standing there.

I'm not making this post as a OMGHALPME! but more of an FYI for those of you out there who love Tekkit but keep getting disconnected for whatever reason you can't really isolate. This is of course possibly all just preaching to the choir, but the pfSense results graph was striking enough for me to merit making this post. I hope it helps a few folks out there.