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Re: low-latency bandwidth for cheap?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Aug 6 15:14:14 2004

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:13:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408061137060.17944-100000@sasami.anime.net>
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Dan Hollis wrote:

> If you want low-latency you dont use ADSL.
> 
> My SDSL connection:
> 
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.454/2.544/6.587/0.187 ms

I guess this is because it uses flame delay instead of ATM?

If it wasn't for ADSL and g.SHDSL I guess nobody would still use ATM?

Let's hope the VDSL guys sort out their range problems (5.5km) so we can
all get on with our lives without ever using ATM again.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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