I found this interesting since I didn't think it would be possible to
get "many thousands [of keystrokes] per minute" from a single keyboard.
I tried adjusting the repeat delay and repeat rate of my own keyboard
to go as fast as possible and the best I can achieve is about 1600
keystrokes/minute. This was a non-surprising number since it's about
double the typing rate of the world's fastest typists. Of course, I
have an actual 20 year old IBM keyboard (which I shall never give up).
Do newer keyboards not adhere to the old "typematic" rate standards?
Chuck Norcutt
Scott Gomez wrote:
>
> Maybe they were having a problem with their mail server like the one I
> had today with the web server at my client's. Trying to do some updates,
> I noticed that performance was *terrible*. Ten seconds at some points to
> just get screen updates.
>
> Now, we just don't get that sort of traffic. Ever.
>
> So I'm thinking "virus" or DDOS attack (although why anyone would bother
> running DDOS on a little, rural school district is beyond me).
>
> Fire up the network analyzer and see that I'm getting short, repeated
> packets at the rate of many thousands per minute from ONE machine at one
> of the other schools, inside the firewall. All to the same web page.
>
> Drive the mile to the school, walk into the classroom where the machine
> lives, and find....
>
> One of the kids, after having opened the browser to the school's home
> page, left a headset sitting on the desk in such a way that the band
> connecting the earpieces was resting on the keyboard. It just barely
> pressed one of the function keys, just enough. F5, it just so happens,
> which, in IE, means "Refresh". Had I moved the headset before I sat down
> in front of the machine, I'd *never* have figured out what had been
> wrong.
>
> ---
> Scott
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