[126160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Emulating ADSL bandwidth shaping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Dijkxhoorn)
Tue May 4 08:05:28 2010
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:04:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
To: davehart_gmail_exchange_tee@davehart.net
In-Reply-To: <j2o85d954181005040502n650f6812o35d3d14e86a60b0b@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi!
> Either you're looking only at the loop contribution, or you're in the
> SF bay area and nearly every "typical site" is available locally.
> Here in the relatively backwater Seattle suburbs, unless it's served
> by Microsoft or a content distribution network, there are substantial
> latencies to typical sites.
>
> To make it concrete I used Windows ICMP tracert against a few sites
> from both cable and DSL in the Seattle suburbs. First from a
> consumer-grade cable offering:
>
> http://pastebin.com/TGc6xsHk
>
> Then from a business-class telco DSL (complete with more than 1 static
> IP, someone tie me down lest my soul escape my body from sheer joy!):
I am in the Netherlands, and its pretty common there to have low latency
on DSL ;)
Bye,
Raymond.
