[ale] Latency on my DSL line

[Jon Reagan]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 08:12:47 Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed November 7 2007 10:13 pm, James Sumners wrote:
> > I live a quarter mile off the road and the line to my modem is about
> > 100 feet long. So my signal isn't very good. I'm getting about 2Mb/sec
> > down on a good day. Still, I've been having too many problems myself.
> > As I was composing this message I ran the speedtest.net test and got
> > about 400Kb/sec, at best. Horrible.
>
> I ran the speednet test just now. I am in the middle of nowhere, probably 5
> miles from the CO and my house sits 300 feet back from the road at the end
> of a 1/4 mile-long cul-de-sac ( and my house wiring is 25 years old)
> my results:
> http://www.speedtest.net/result/200169260.png
>
> 1961 kb/s download
> 380 kb/s upload
> 67ms ping  distance <50 miles from Atlanta
> and I'm in Athens.

Don't feel too badly about it.  I ran my speedtest and have a 777kb/s download 
speed.  That's with DSL (second faster service speed for BellSouth).  The 
upload was only 65 kb/sec.  All this plus a 100ft. ethernet running from my 
basement up.  Not to bad, though. I used to have dialup at 5 kb a sec.

Jon