Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 5 A very full and fulfilling second pot of gold
At this point in time, Huawei's first backbone router, the Quidway NetEngine series, had just been released for less than a year, and a complete Internet cafe system would not be available for more than two years.

The most troublesome thing about Internet cafes nowadays is that if one person occupies the network, the entire bar will be disconnected.

Although there are no online movies now, with the gradual popularity of SP services, some websites claiming to have high-definition pictures have begun to emerge on the Internet. Each picture on these websites is tens to hundreds of KB in size, which greatly consumes network speed.

Moreover, once such a web page is opened, the traffic generated by the pop-up windows alone can completely crash the already slow network.

In this era of generally low bandwidth, conflicts among customers in Internet cafes due to disconnections while viewing pictures occur almost every day.

As a pop-up tycoon...

He was absolutely sure he could solve this problem.

Cheng Yi quickly returned to his computer and turned it on skillfully.

It is so easy for him, the Internet villain, to write a small program for the bandwidth allocation system all night long.

At that time, those who opened Internet cafes could definitely be described as making a fortune every day. If you count 300 computers, the daily revenue could exceed ten thousand!
One apartment a week is not a joke.

Making your first pot of gold from them is something you feel at ease about, and it feels full and fulfilling.

No, it should be the second pot of gold. The first pot of gold was given by the marketing genius Jiang Yuxi.

After turning on the computer, Cheng Yi first familiarized himself with it. The operating system was the old Windows 98.

The desktop is very simple, with only a few icons.

Ourgame, QQ Chat, Age of Empires, Millennium, Red Alert, CS...

"Is this your first time using a computer?" The young man sitting next to him asked with a smile when he saw Cheng Yi observing the icons on the desktop.

The young man was playing online games with a cigarette in his mouth. The smoke made him squint one eye.

Cheng Yi smiled at him and said, "Yes."

"You don't need to study anything else. The most fun thing about computers is online games. Come, let me show you." The young man tilted the monitor towards Cheng Yi and said, "Look at the beautiful graphics, right? If you want to play, I can take you. It's a lot of fun."

"I don't go online often." Cheng Yi said very subtly: "I want to get familiar with it first."

"Okay." The young man said with a cheerful smile, "If you want to play, go to the Millennium World Zone. I've built a sect there, and it's pretty awesome."

"Okay." Cheng Yi responded and opened the IE browser.

He first needs to download a programming tool.

After opening the website home, Cheng Yi began to search for software download websites.

In this era, the Internet speed is not fast and there are very few websites for online downloads.

He searched for a long time and finally found a programming tool that he was familiar with in Huajun Software.

"Done!" Cheng Yi clicked on the online download with some excitement.

Deng!
A pop-up window quickly appeared on the desktop.

Midnight chat room gives you different joy.

Cheng Yi patiently closed the pop-up window.

Click online again, and three more pop-up windows appear.

"Fuck you." Cheng Yi was annoyed.

These pop-ups were ten times more disgusting than the ones he had made before.

There are fucking hidden crosses everywhere. Although the pop-ups he made before popped up a lot and quickly, at least the crosses were easy to find.

If the Internet is not rectified, it will be hopeless.

Cheng Yi was like playing whack-a-mole, one button popped up, and before he could find the cross, the next one popped up.

Cheng Yi clicked on the online download more than ten times, and the pop-up window finally stopped popping up.

It was already one o'clock in the morning when I finally downloaded the programming tools as I wished.

After installing the tools, Cheng Yi didn't waste any more time and quickly started writing code. "Huh?" The young man next to him was stunned when he saw Cheng Yi writing code at lightning speed.

"Is this your first time using a computer?"

"Oh shit." The young man didn't come to his senses until the cigarette butt burned his hand. He looked at Cheng Yi with a reverent look and didn't dare to speak to Cheng Yi anymore.

He had heard that those who understood this kind of thing were terrible hackers.

What if I make this guy unhappy and steal his game account and QQ number?

"Network administrator, change the phone." The young man stood up and shouted.

It was not until seven o'clock in the morning that Cheng Yi finally implemented the current limiting function using Java. This distributed bandwidth current limiting function that will be available on routers in the future is still a very high-end thing nowadays.

The main problem is that the current bandwidth speed is not fast, the fastest is only 8M.

If an Internet cafe has 100 computers, then each computer only has 80KB of memory. Even if more network cables are connected, it is just a drop in the bucket in the face of pop-ups from 18+ websites.

Moreover, the price of 8M network cable access is prohibitive for most Internet cafe owners.

The program written by Cheng Yi added a peak call mechanism ten years later.

When a computer's network speed reaches 128KB, it will be automatically limited. If it does not reach 128KB, the fastest 128KB network speed will be used.

This is the only way Cheng Yi can think of at the moment to alleviate the problem of being disconnected when watching raw pictures.

After finishing the program, Cheng Yi, who was full of pride, realized another problem.

No USB drive.

In 2001, the cheapest USB flash drive would cost around two to three thousand yuan, so he couldn't save the program he wrote.

As for the storage method of emails, forget it. The most advanced 263 free email nowadays only has 5M of storage space.

The only solution now is to talk to the boss directly on this computer.

Cheng Yi first added an authorization encryption system to the program, then walked to the front desk of the Internet cafe and said, "Hello, I have a solution to the Internet cafe's network occupancy and disconnection problem. I want to talk to your boss. Can you help me contact him?"

The girl at the internet cafe looked at Cheng Yi in disbelief and asked, "Is this true? Don't try to fool me."

There are fights every day because of this kind of thing, and the girl in the Internet cafe is almost fed up with it.

However, the girl in the Internet cafe didn't quite believe that Cheng Yi could solve this century-old problem.

Cheng Yi understood her concerns, so he pulled her to his machine and showed it to her.

The internet cafe girl, who only had a secondary school education, looked at the constantly flashing code. Although she couldn't understand it, she pretended to understand it and nodded and said, "Well, it looks pretty good."

She looked at Cheng Yi and asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Cheng Yi." Cheng Yi replied.

"Go to high school?" she asked again.

"I've already graduated and was just admitted to the Computer Science Department of Handong University." Cheng Yi's answer made the internet cafe girl's eyes light up.

College student?

How to greet college students?

The girl at the internet cafe thought for a moment, then imitated the scenes on TV, extended her hand and smiled very ladylikely, "Hello, my name is Zhang Lingyu."

"Hello." Although Cheng Yi felt that shaking hands was silly, he still stretched out his hand. As soon as he shook Zhang Lingyu's hand, he felt that Zhang Lingyu used a little force, as if she was deliberately pinching his pure right hand.

Regardless of whether it was an illusion or not, Cheng Yi remained highly vigilant.

After all, he is no longer a greasy uncle, but a smart, lovable, handsome and sunny boy.

Boys must know how to protect themselves when they are outside.

(End of this chapter)