[ale] [OT] DSL and latency

[Tony Carter]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, PairOfTwins <PairOfTwins at mindspring.com>wrote:

> All:
>
> A friend on Earthlink DSL, eight miles from my own Earthlink DSL, had
> lousy speed tests despite all our complaints.  NOW her Mac gets over
> 3000 kbps at speakeasy's speedtest.
>
> However, when sites took 10 - 20 sec to bring up any content, I did a
> bunch of pings:
>
> yahoo.com   ave 1313 ms, 12% loss
> 2wire.com  ave 1661 ms, 4% loss
> earthlink.net  ave 1466 ms, 0% loss
>
> while my own Earthlink 3 mbit connection shows ave 85 - 140 ms, with 0%
> loss.
>
>
Try  mtr  ( http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ ) to see where the packet loss is
occurring.

-Tony
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