[ale] Latency on my DSL line

Greg Canter gcanter at speedfactory.net
Wed Nov 7 21:02:05 EST 2007


No,it's not just you.  I have also seen the same thing around here ... In
fact it got so bad one night it was slower then 56K dial-up.  I have also
started looking around for other ISP's.


On 11/7/07 8:46 PM, "Adrin" <adrin at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> If money is no object you can get a trail version of ixchariot. You will
> probably have to talk to a sales person.
> http://www.ixiacom.com/products/display?skey=ixchariot
> 
> Sadly I don't know of a open source method, Wish I did.
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 20:24 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> Lately I've been seeing slowness at night on my DSL line (SpeedFactory).
>> I assume that for normal people that use the web 99% of the time this
>> would not bee seen.  I use SSH most of the time.  Around 7pm typing on
>> remote systems becomes a pain due to latency.  My wife has complained
>> that the ABC and Disney sites that play videos are choppy.
>> dslspeedtest.com does not show good things either at night.  BellSouth
>> has done some testing and see no packet loss.  I'm not sure how they are
>> doing that.
>> 
>> My idea is to run a program in linux and in linux at our data center to
>> do a test between the two machines.  I will take that output and place
>> it in a rrd file and I can graph what is going on.  Any ideas on what
>> program to use?  I need text output so I can parse the values via perl.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
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