[126164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Emulating ADSL bandwidth shaping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (isabel dias)
Tue May 4 09:44:19 2010
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 06:42:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: isabel dias <isabeldias1@yahoo.com>
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is cable better for gamming? =0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom=
: isabel dias <isabeldias1@yahoo.com>=0ATo: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners=
.com>; NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>=0ASent: Tue, May 4, 2010 2:41:48 PM=0ASubjec=
t: Re: Emulating ADSL bandwidth shaping=0A=0Asame as in the HFC and QAM mod=
ulation values and so on and so forth .....=0Aservices that are requiring a=
connection-oriented service such as a gaming clan/cloud are highly affecte=
d when working in latency and jitter network based environments such as the=
ethernet based ones and SMDS .......=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message =
----=0AFrom: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>=0ATo: NANOG <nanog@nanog.=
org>=0ASent: Tue, May 4, 2010 2:19:39 PM=0ASubject: Re: Emulating ADSL band=
width shaping=0A=0A=0AOn May 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:=
=0A=0A> I am not sure what the point is in mixing in speed of light latency=
. If your "typical sites" are, say,=0A> Indian cricket blogs, you will typi=
cally have a high latency from the US. What does that tell=0A> you about yo=
ur DSL or Cable system, except that it is somewhat removed from India ?=0A=
=0AMost of the ADSL installations I've seen in SBC 13 state area had interl=
eaving turned on, which significantly increases latency.=A0 I suspect that'=
s why many cable MSOs in the same territory have "cable is better for gamin=
g" marketing campaigns running all the time.=0A=0ASo the latency you see on=
an ADSL line is dependent on how the carrier set up the DSLAM.=0A=0A--Chri=
s=0A=0A=0A
