Smithology

update: I’m getting 5800/680 kbps to Melbourne which is much better but not exactly 24000 kbps.

[tags]adsl2, iinet, speedtest[/tags]

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I recently replaced samba on my home server (i.e. old desktop) with WebDAV for use with my Mac. I was having issues with the samba connection dying. Part of this was that I was automounting the samba drives using the Netinfo Manager which meant that I couldn’t unmount and remount the usual way.

I found this post which outlined a more usable automount on the Mac using AppleScript.

As for WebDAV, I know there are issues with Windows but for windows, I’ve left the Samba share going. I decided to give it a go as I thought the Mac support might be a bit better. So far it’s been no problem. My home server is on Gentoo, so I used this guide

I have found that doing the username:password@server thing in the URL didn’t work (for me). I also didn’t have much luck with SSL which might have been something to do with my self-signed expired certificate with non-matching hostname :-)

Linux, Mac

I’m waiting for ADSL2 to be enabled at home.
Playing with Speedtest . Strangely, although I’m in Brisbane, the best speed I get is to Perth. I wonder if that’s because my ISP is Perth based? I had thought that they might have infrastructure in Brisvegas but obviously, all my traffic goes through Perth before it gets out to the big bad internet.

[tags]adsl2, speed test, broadband, iinet[/tags]

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