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  • lxskllr
    Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 13435

    #1

    Router As a Client

    I finally got my main rig online by setting up my router as a wireless client. The connection sucks, but it's enough to slowly transfer a bit of information. I got everything updated, and I'm now crushing work units with my folding clients. Running the gpu client knocks them out fast, and I want to get below 10,000th place before I shut it all down for warm weather :^)
  • Monkey
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 3290

    #2
    I have no idea what that means but....Congratulations!

    Something about a computer...or a semi truck....and laundry?

    J/K :-) If I ever get internet hooked up at the house I would start folding but everything I do online I can do on my phone and it is not really cost effective to have just internet as I do not believe in cable anymore.

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    • ratcheer
      Member
      • Jul 2010
      • 621

      #3
      I have been a computer nerd since the mid-70's and I'm not even sure what you mean by "setting up my router as a wireless client". Please elucidate. I think what you might mean is picking up the wireless signal from some other router and using it as your service provider? Like a wireless repeater?

      Tim

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      • lxskllr
        Member
        • Sep 2007
        • 13435

        #4
        Originally posted by ratcheer View Post
        I think what you might mean is picking up the wireless signal from some other router and using it as your service provider? Like a wireless repeater?

        Tim
        Not exactly, that would be bridge mode. I'm using it just like a plug in wifi card, but I'm using the router. I have Tomato firmware on a Linksys WRT54GL, and it gives you more options than the standard firmware. I was hoping the signal would be good enough to game, but the latency's horrible. It works well enough to keep the machine updated, and to send/receive work units, so it beats a blank :^)

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        • ratcheer
          Member
          • Jul 2010
          • 621

          #5
          Originally posted by lxskllr View Post
          ... I'm using it just like a plug in wifi card, but I'm using the router. I have Tomato firmware on a Linksys WRT54GL, and it gives you more options than the standard firmware. ...
          Interesting. I updated my Netgear WNDR3300 to dd-wrt for the first time last week, so I could participate and learn about the IPv6 internet. You are right, it gave me tons more features.

          Tim

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          • RobsanX
            Member
            • Aug 2008
            • 2030

            #6
            Sometimes my wireless network stops working, so I have to put the password in again...

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            • lxskllr
              Member
              • Sep 2007
              • 13435

              #7
              Originally posted by RobsanX View Post
              Sometimes my wireless network stops working, so I have to put the password in again...
              Are you on the outside of it's range? You could be losing the signal, but you should be able to hook up without reentering your password. Poke around in your O/S settings to see if you can save it. Alternatively, your router could be overheating, and dropping you. Make sure the vents are unobstructed. If it feels hot(I don't know how hot is too hot), you could modify the case to give it better cooling.

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              • AtreyuKun
                Member
                • Aug 2009
                • 1223

                #8
                Originally posted by lxskllr View Post
                I finally got my main rig online by setting up my router as a wireless client. The connection sucks, but it's enough to slowly transfer a bit of information. I got everything updated, and I'm now crushing work units with my folding clients. Running the gpu client knocks them out fast, and I want to get below 10,000th place before I shut it all down for warm weather :^)
                I really think you'd get a better transfer speed if you reroute the traffic through main engineering, and divert power away from everything except forward shields. and for gods sakes don't forget to open the secondary plasma vent. Cause you know that has a triple redundant bypass.

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                • lxskllr
                  Member
                  • Sep 2007
                  • 13435

                  #9
                  Originally posted by AtreyuKun View Post
                  I really think you'd get a better transfer speed if you reroute the traffic through main engineering, and divert power away from everything except forward shields. and for gods sakes don't forget to open the secondary plasma vent. Cause you know that has a triple redundant bypass.
                  Dude, you're talking out your ass. Everyone knows that opening the secondary plasma vent destabilizes the dilithium crystal containment field, and will cause transfer speeds to actually get into negative transfer territory :^S

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                  • sgreger1
                    Member
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 9451

                    #10
                    So what does that mean? Did you rig it up to somehow fold more or on a free connection or something? I'm not sure what a wireless client is.

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                    • Connavar
                      Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 237

                      #11
                      Originally posted by lxskllr View Post
                      dude, you're talking out your ass. Everyone knows that opening the secondary plasma vent destabilizes the dilithium crystal containment field, and will cause transfer speeds to actually get into negative transfer territory :^s
                      don't cross the streams!!!

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                      • lxskllr
                        Member
                        • Sep 2007
                        • 13435

                        #12
                        Originally posted by sgreger1 View Post
                        So what does that mean? Did you rig it up to somehow fold more or on a free connection or something? I'm not sure what a wireless client is.
                        I setup my router to get magic wifi. I had that computer hardwired, but haven't had internet in a few months. Since the O/S is 64bit, none of my USB adapters have drivers for it. Since I didn't have internet there, I couldn't fold on that machine, and that one's the real workhorse. I have the GPU(runs on newer graphics cards) client running, as well as the CPU client. The GPU client is the monster. It goes through work units like a knife through lös snus :^D

                        I could have sneakernetted the work units back and forth, but that was more work than I wanted to put into it. The GPU work units are particularly time sensitive, and I don't want a full time job feeding the computer :^D

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                        • Connavar
                          Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 237

                          #13
                          are you saying crossing the streams would be bad?

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                          • lxskllr
                            Member
                            • Sep 2007
                            • 13435

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Connavar View Post
                            are you saying crossing the streams would be bad?
                            You said it above. You NEVER cross streams :^D

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                            • Roo
                              Member
                              • Jun 2008
                              • 3446

                              #15
                              Originally posted by lxskllr View Post
                              I finally got my main rig online by setting up my router as a wireless client. The connection sucks, but it's enough to slowly transfer a bit of information. I got everything updated, and I'm now crushing work units with my folding clients. Running the gpu client knocks them out fast, and I want to get below 10,000th place before I shut it all down for warm weather :^)
                              Didn't you mean to write it like this?

                              Πήρα τελικά κύρια σύνδεση εξέδρα μου, με τη δημιουργία δρομολογητή μου ως ασύρματος πελάτης. Η σύνδεση είναι χάλια, αλλά είναι αρκετό για να μεταφέρετε σιγά-σιγά ένα κομμάτι των πληροφοριών. Πήρα τα πάντα ενημερωμένο και είμαι σύνθλιψη τώρα μονάδων εργασίας με πτυσσόμενα τους πελάτες μου. Τρέξιμο ο πελάτης GPU τους χτυπά έξω γρήγορα, και θέλω να πάρω κάτω από 10.000 χιλ. πριν εγώ να κλείσει όλα τα κάτω για το θερμό καιρό : ^)

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