Jered M. Moses Sep 10 1993, 4:25 pm show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: j...@po.CWRU.Edu (Jered M. Moses) - Find messages by this author Date: 10 Sep 1993 17:06:28 GMT Local: Fri, Sep 10 1993 10:06 am Subject: ICS woes, take 2 Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Hmmm... Yet another (relatively minor) complaint about ICS. I suppose that first, I ought to say that I *REALLY* like ICS! I only complain because I'd like to see it get better (and I'd like to be able to use it....). Here is my complaint/suggestion: The way the U.S. server is currently set up, login is restricted from 10:30-7 EDT or something like this, to 35 users. (I've never seen it, in my limited experience, exceed the 70-user cap during "off hours.") Users are also restricted to 4 hours (240 minutes) in any 24-hour period. It seems to me that it might be useful (?) to reflect the user cap in the time restriction. Presumably, the purpose of both is to allow more people to log on, yes? Or at least the time restriction is for this purpose; the cap might have more to do with system load.... At any rate, I think both purposes might be better served by setting up some sort of system where "prime" hours are "more restricted" than "off-hours." How? Maybe allow 480 minutes/24 hours per user, with prime hours counting double? Or 360, with prime counting time-and-a-half? This would maintain the 240 minutes/24 hours during the daytime hours, while reducing the restrictions on the less-straining hours... Hey; it was just a suggestion! :) --Kid Kibbitz -- j...@po.cwru.edu | "From childhood's hour I have not been | Quote from jmoses@heartland. | As others were -- I have not seen | "Alone," a bradley.edu | As others saw -- I could not bring | poem by KidKibbitz on ICS | My passions from a common spring." | Edgar Allen Poe Ole Tange Sep 11 1993, 4:04 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: t...@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange) - Find messages by this author Date: 11 Sep 1993 10:54:36 GMT Local: Sat, Sep 11 1993 3:54 am Subject: Re: ICS woes, take 2 Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Thus spake j...@po.CWRU.Edu (Jered M. Moses): - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - >Hmmm... Yet another (relatively minor) complaint about ICS. >I suppose that first, I ought to say that I *REALLY* like ICS! I only >complain because I'd like to see it get better (and I'd like to be able to >use it....). >Here is my complaint/suggestion: >The way the U.S. server is currently set up, login is restricted from >10:30-7 EDT or something like this, to 35 users. (I've never seen it, in >my limited experience, exceed the 70-user cap during "off hours.") Users >are also restricted to 4 hours (240 minutes) in any 24-hour period. >It seems to me that it might be useful (?) to reflect the user cap in the >time restriction. Presumably, the purpose of both is to allow more people >to log on, yes? Or at least the time restriction is for this purpose; the >cap might have more to do with system load.... At any rate, I think both >purposes might be better served by setting up some sort of system where >"prime" hours are "more restricted" than "off-hours." >How? Maybe allow 480 minutes/24 hours per user, with prime hours counting >double? Or 360, with prime counting time-and-a-half? >This would maintain the 240 minutes/24 hours during the daytime hours, >while reducing the restrictions on the less-straining hours... Why on earth don't you use the Euro-server instead?? At prime hours in USA it is NOT prime hours in Denmark (Danish summer time is GMT -2 hours) telnet bentley.daimi.aau.dk 5000 >Hey; it was just a suggestion! >:) >--Kid Kibbitz >-- >j...@po.cwru.edu | "From childhood's hour I have not been | Quote from >jmoses@heartland. | As others were -- I have not seen | "Alone," a > bradley.edu | As others saw -- I could not bring | poem by >KidKibbitz on ICS | My passions from a common spring." | Edgar Allen Poe -- -- Never (NEVER) run elm and rmail simultanously t...@daimi.aau.dk v...@aarhues.dk Paul Colley Sep 11 1993, 3:00 pm show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: col...@qucis.queensu.ca (Paul Colley) - Find messages by this author Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 20:23:42 GMT Local: Sat, Sep 11 1993 1:23 pm Subject: Re: ICS woes, take 2 Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse In article <26sapc$...@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> t...@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange) writes: >Why on earth don't you use the Euro-server instead?? At prime hours in USA >it is NOT prime hours in Denmark (Danish summer time is GMT -2 hours) >telnet bentley.daimi.aau.dk 5000 Well, for one thing, it's over the ocean (not for everyone, obviously :-)), and thus uses expensive, slow, and usually overloaded links for... game playing. I try to restrict my network use to this continent if what I want is available here. It's part of being a good internet citizen. But if MIT can't support the load, perhaps it isn't really available here. It would be overall better if there was a North American ICS that could meet the N.A> demand, and similarly for Europe. -------------- Question: Since the CPU load of ICS is rumoured to be negligible, I assume MIT is concerned about the network loading. ICS seems to run more than 100K/minute for most of the day, which is a substantial load. Why not count K's of data instead of minutes of log-on time? Users using ASCII boards use far more bandwidth then users on graphical interfaces. Also, blitz players use FAR more bandwidth than those playing two hour games. If you counted what you were trying to reduce, users would have an incentive to help (the most obvious being to use a graphical interface if they aren't already). If I'm all wrong about MIT caring about the bandwidth, kindly disregard this suggestion---but if not bandwidth, what is the problem? - Paul Colley University: col...@qucis.queensu.ca Home: pacol...@ember.uucp watmath!ember!pacolley +1 613 545 3807 "Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of" - Ken Burnside Jered M. Moses Sep 13 1993, 9:33 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: j...@po.CWRU.Edu (Jered M. Moses) - Find messages by this author Date: 13 Sep 1993 15:23:25 GMT Local: Mon, Sep 13 1993 8:23 am Subject: Re: ICS woes, take 2 Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse In a previous article, t...@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange) says: >Why on earth don't you use the Euro-server instead?? At prime hours in USA >it is NOT prime hours in Denmark (Danish summer time is GMT -2 hours) The lag I get from Euro makes it not worth using. -- - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -