[73012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: low-latency bandwidth for cheap?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Aug 5 17:27:39 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:17:34 -1000
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: Jeff Wheeler <jwheeler@usip.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> How much is "low latency"? I have 6ms RTT over my 8M/800k ADSL, it's
> usually 6-8ms over an equivalent 2M g.shdsl line.
interesting question. i have two adsl lines. pinging the first hop
router
verizon / lavanet (hawi to honolulu, 25 mins air time by plane)
64 bytes from 64.65.95.73: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=20.637 ms
64 bytes from 64.65.95.73: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=22.186 ms
64 bytes from 64.65.95.73: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=21.965 ms
64 bytes from 64.65.95.73: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=21.723 ms
64 bytes from 64.65.95.73: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=21.538 ms
qwest / iinet (30 miles from bainbridge to hellview wa us)
64 bytes from 209.20.186.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=67.008 ms
64 bytes from 209.20.186.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=67.700 ms
64 bytes from 209.20.186.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=56.696 ms
64 bytes from 209.20.186.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=60.249 ms
i do not know why and can get no useful info on provisioning.
i know iinet is redback.
randy
