[ale] Latency on my DSL line

[William Bagwell]

On Thursday 08 November 2007, Jon Reagan wrote:
> On Thursday 08 November 2007 08:12:47 Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > 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.

<gloat> http://www.speedtest.net/result/200358984.png

Much as enjoy seeing TDS whip the pants off of Bell:) still wish I had the 
choice to try Speedfactory.
-- 
William