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Posted by [unknown], from Home, on August 09, 2003 at 22:50 local (server) time

Just submitted my last Java project for CS352.  Hopefully this will be my last Java project for awhile!

In other news, RPI's network seems to be deteriorating exponentially.  Massive packet loss this past week and a 4 hour Internet 1 outage today.  The outage today seems to be Broadwing's fault, and they patched it by routing our traffic through some loop that totally kills any decent RTTs.  Check out the terrible stats using the MRTG front-end and clicking on "Packet Loss" on the right drop-down box.

I find it very surprising that a $40k/year institution supposedly being the most-wired in the nation can have terrible networking issues like this.  After working at Rutgers this summer, I'm positive that RPI could learn alot from their network engineering ...

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