#Rendering Plant?
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Hello,
Could you please tell me what the rendering plant is?
Thanks for your time.
<Rendering Plant>
A 3D Studio friendly BBS at (816) 525-5614. 1000's of meshes…I've been told.
Sanford
>>Could you please tell me what the rendering plant is? <<
It's a 3D Studio oriented BBS. It has hundreds of files related to 3D
Studio, rendering, ray tracing, fractals, drivers, tutorials, IPAS
routines, etc. The number is 816-525-5614. It's a 28.8 kBps BBS, and
this Friday the lines will be upgraded to data grade.
I logged onto rendering plant checked it out and was impressed w/
the idea so tonite I grabbed my wifes mcard (she's asleep!) and
prepared to log on and pay up so I could download all those goodies.
Problem:
I can't succesfully log on! I get as far as "Do you want
graphics?" I'm prepared w/ I DO, I DO and the next thing I know is NO
CARRIER……
Is anyone else having this problem? TIA, Gary
Gary:
Thanks for your interest.
>> Problem:
>> I can't succesfully log on! I get as far as "Do you want
graphics?" I'm
>>prepared w/ I DO, I DO and the next thing I know is NO CARRIER……
>> Is anyone else having this problem?
Yeah, me. I logged on and looked around and it dropped carrier on me.
So I hooked a phone up to the BBS line and dialed out and found the
line to be full of static and pops. Today I was upgraded to a "Data
Grade" line, and this is what I get?! This sucks. I even had a SW
Bell tech out today going over the line with an analyzer and getting
"good results." Maybe I should have left well enough alone! Anyway,
I'll have the phone people out AGAIN tomorrow (or as soon as I can
get them out), since I'm paying the big bucks now they'll have to try
harder. Please try us out after friday afternoon, by then they should
have fixed it. I'm eagerly awaiting the day that I can move on to
other issues…
>>TIA, Gary
What does TIA mean? (I hope it's not mean!)
TIA is ThanksIn Advance! Somebody else used that the other day and
it took me a few minutes to remember What it meant! Sorry to use
something so dumb in a message! MEAN! Never! I don't know enough to
be mean only humble!
Really looking forward to the bbs can't wait, hats off to you for a
way cool idea! Gary
>>TIA is ThanksIn Advance!
>>MEAN! Never! I don't know
>>enough to be mean only humble!
Thanks for the info, it's now in my acronym bank! {I knew you weren't being
mean…}
>>Really looking forward to the bbs
>>can't wait, hats off to you for a way cool idea!
You ought to be in good shape now. I spent the last two days with a
very perseverant SW Bell repair dude, and we swapped a lot of stuff
on the phone lines. At least they're not audibly grungy now, so I
think they must be pretty clean. We kept the work order open for the
weekend and if it comes back, he's coming back to fix it. So this
weekend is a test for good connections and good downloads. I can't
wait to get back to BBS improvement! I must have a thousand meshes in
the queue to put on line!
I've been going through phone company hell, too. I have an "FX"
(foreign exchange) line that reaches from my rural area into
Milwaukee, which gives me a local call to the CIS nodes in Milwaukee.
It costs about $130 a month, but it's cheaper than long distance. I
wasn't able to get a reliable 28.8 connection on it, not even a
steady 16.8 connection, but it would hold at 14.4.
A few calls to the phone company revealed they could easily come up
with a measurement in decibels that was "a little off", although the
repair person knew how to measure this, they couldn't tell me exactly
what it was – I'm sure it was some kind of attenuation. So they
tweaked it in the "hot" direction that would supposedly help a data
connection, and that made it worse. Then they moved it the other way
(adding or removing filters, I think), and that was just as bad. So I
had them put it back where it was.
Then I found out there was a no-charge upgrade to "voice and data" quality
lines (as opposed to "voice only"). This only cost the $30 for an on-site
end-to-end frequency analyzer test that would prove the line had enough
bandwidth. Just asking for this upgrade also eans they'd put higher-quality
"cards" in the phone company offices for this line. All this happens on
Friday… I'm very anxious to see how it turns out.
*** I even had a SW Bell tech out today going over the line with an analyzer
and getting "good results." ***
Phone Companies always get good results on line analyzer tests except
in the most extreme error situations. For a data grade line they
need to fire up "special" tests to really get a grip on the
situation. In my experience (as a data communications field engineer
for ten years), local phone companies do as little as possible
because of cost. You have to keep "squeeking the wheel" untill they
come thru. And of course we owe all of this poor service to the
break up of "THE phone company"! Any way, PMJI with my two cents.