We got a new server “Lithium” witch is in the UK this will provide UK people a faster connections. Take a look at the speed update.

User 1 UK:   User to RedFire(US): 270 ms, User to Lithium UK: 32 ms.

User 2 UK:   User to RedFire(US): 589 ms, User to Lithium UK: 106 ms.

Now if you add Lithium to Hub its +89.1 ms.

This is a big update for TechToKnow, and to keep you connected to the fastest IRC Server you will be tested before you connect each server will ping you for the fastest server and load you to it. So You will know your chatters will always have the fastest server and if the ping fails we will load a default one.

Also like to take a Look at your ping to it? take a Look at the Servers page of TechToKnow IRC we added it so you can look at your ping, Its not Open for Public use yet but will be up ASAP.

Have Fun and happy chatting!

~RCP

I have made a Computer with Windows XP Pro on it… that I use for a Small media/Server, Now I have a SonicWall Hardware Firewall Hooked up to it so it cant be hacked/gotten into…

The Server on the firewall can only output on HTTP only Min 50 kbs – 350 kps this is to keep bandwith low and my rest of the home network fast.

I’m on a Comcast home internet Service and that firewall gets hit 250 times a day with port scans, ICMP/SYNC flooding so that firewall works very good.

So back to my home server its a CPU: 933 MHZ  P3, RAM:  368 MB SD, HDD: 10 GB Seagate something, Connected to a SonicWall Hardware firewall(Sonicwall TZ 180) on Port E1, at 100 MB.

What do I run on this? Well Right now…

1 IRC Bot(MIRC).

1 VLC pumping a shoutcast stream to a Ventrilo I have running to Our Ventrilo server.

1 Ventrilo(Said Why above).

1 XAMPLite(with PHP and MySQL) used for Webserver.

1 Weather Bug(Used for a PHP Script I made).

1 Bittorrnt So if I need to torrent anything.

1 VNC  So I can easily remote into it to fix somthing.

1 hMail Server I can can send email locally with firewall and antivirus.

Thats it!

To Keep this Always on I have it up to a UPS and… I have a Generator if need to be…

The Screenshot(Taken with VNC),

(Real Size of Screen)

I will Take More Pictures  of it soon