[QUOTE=Mark Rose;395911]Well I'm in Canada[/QUOTE]You live in the privileged part of Canada. The fastest internet I could buy here (if internet where I'm staying wasn't landlord-controlled) is 60up/10down/300GB for $75/mo, and I'm happy to have that available (I've never had internet that fast in my life, either up or down).

50 Up / 10 Down is about the fastest a person can get around here. Saskatchewan is very controlling of this kind of stuff so someone can't just come in and say "We'd like to offer 500 Mb/s Up and Down but only to residents of Regina and Saskatoon!" They need to offer roughly equal service to everyone within an area and it just becomes so unprofitable to provide that kind of bandwidth to even the #5 - #15 largest [STRIKE]colonies[/STRIKE] communities of Saskatchewan.

I know SaskTel supposedly offers cell reception to every square inch of the province and that's why the rates are so horrible even in the two big cities. The northern 2/3 are just so remote.


(For anyone interested, look up Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on a map. That is our third biggest city at about 43,000 and is the last relevant civilization going North.

We had some exchange students from Quebec which is quite close to Montreal and even Ottawa and Toronto, and then some US cities as well. Saskatchewan is deserted in comparison. We brought them to our Capital, Regina, which is a 2.5 hour drive south from Saskatoon, and then to Waskesiu Lake, which is a 2.5 hour drive north from Saskatoon with the second half being a windy trek through an endless (beautiful) pine forest. The best moment was when we told them that they'd reach the halfway point to SK's north border after an additional couple of hours)


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[QUOTE=James Heinrich;395914]The fastest internet I could buy here (if internet where I'm staying wasn't landlord-controlled) is 60up/10down/300GB for $75/mo, and I'm happy to have that available (I've never had internet that fast in my life, either up or down).[/QUOTE]

Are you sure you don't have the up/down backwards? Usually down is faster than up (but it's been a long time since I lived in Canada).

Edit: Oh, and it's been a long time since I had >1 Mb/s in either direction, until recently. Yay FLOW (boo proposed merger with LIME...).

[QUOTE=TheMawn;395940]Saskatchewan... The northern 2/3 are just so remote.[/QUOTE]Just like everywhere in Canada. You can drive 2350+km (most direct route) and not leave Ontario (from north of Red Lake to Quebec border) -- about the same distance as Los Angeles to Dallas for the Americans lurking -- and yet you still can't drive within 600km of Hudson Bay (except maybe in the winter on ice roads, but I digress). The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horseshoe]Golden Horseshoe[/url] (aka Toronto++) has 7 million people in 10,000km², and the whole province has 12.8 million in 1,000,000km² -- that is 54.5% of the population in 0.938% of the area. No wonder that some can get 100+Mbps and others can't even get basic cell phone coverage.

... back on topic :blush:

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;395953]you still can't drive within 600km of Hudson Bay (except maybe in the winter on ice roads, but I digress)... others can't even get basic cell phone coverage.[/QUOTE]

Actually, I made phone calls while standing in Hudson's Bay last year.

It's true you can't drive to the west coast, but you can drive to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisasibi,_Quebec]Chisasibi[/url] on the east coast, where 3G cell service arrived 3 or 4 years ago. So of course I had to make phone calls while standing in the Arctic ocean, out from [url=https://www.google.ca/maps/place/53%C2%B047'10.4%22N+79%C2%B004'41.7%22W/@53.786216,-79.078248,298m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0]the boat launch[/url] south of town, simply for the novelty factor. They were having a heatwave, 34°C the day I waded in, so the ~4° water was pleasant. It's a [url=http://i.imgur.com/mVlk7ij.jpg]pretty area[/url], but there's little to do besides tour a couple of gigawatt hydro-electric dams, and the bugs are ferocious.

Also, we need more 70->71 DCTF assignments at GPU72.

[QUOTE=chalsall;395945]Are you sure you don't have the up/down backwards?[/QUOTE]

I absolutely did. James started it though.

oops... :redface:

I don't know if this pertains here or to the Official ServerErrors thread.

Yesterday I requested a bunch of exponents to Gpu72 to test my new GTX 980.
While uploading the results.txt file to Primenet through the mnual results upload, I got this messsage in yellow:

[code]
processing: TF no-factor for M71279717 (2[sup]74[/sup]-2[sup]75[/sup])
Result type inappropriate for the assignment type. Processing result but not deleting assignment.
CPU credit is 53.6765 GHz-days.
[/code]

Any hints?

Luigi

[QUOTE=ET_;396062]processing: TF no-factor for M71279717 (2[sup]74[/sup]-2[sup]75[/sup])
Result type inappropriate for the assignment type. Processing result but not deleting assignment.[/QUOTE]According to the [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=71279717&full=1]exponent history[/url], You were assigned that exponent for P-1 and you submitted the result for that on 21-Feb-2015. The exponent was almost-immediately reassigned to someone else for LL, and after that you submitted TF results for 74-75, even though the exponent was no longer assigned to you. Unintentional "poaching", but no harm done.

[QUOTE=James Heinrich;396067]According to the [url=http://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=71279717&full=1]exponent history[/url], You were assigned that exponent for P-1 and you submitted the result for that on 21-Feb-2015. The exponent was almost-immediately reassigned to someone else for LL, and after that you submitted TF results for 74-75, even though the exponent was no longer assigned to you. Unintentional "poaching", but no harm done.[/QUOTE]

I see... I request P-1 from Primenet and TF on GPU72, I guess I took the exponent before the syncing, sorry for that.

Luigi

What is the overall success rate with TF to 75? I have still not found a factor and I'm pushing 300 attempts...