[80597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Acceptable DSL Speeds (ms based)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Parrish)
Wed May 4 12:19:22 2005
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:13:32 -0500
To: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett), nanog@nanog.org
From: Luke Parrish <lukep@centurytel.net>
In-Reply-To: <d5arlg$3s5$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I agree with that regarding download speed, I like to see 85-90% on a 1.5
connection, that usually works out to 1.3M - 1.35M...
And, yes this is purely for conversation and other viewpoints.
Thanks,
luke
At 11:01 AM 5/4/2005, Peter Corlett wrote:
>Luke Parrish <lukep@centurytel.net> wrote:
> > Does anyone have a good resource for acceptable speeds for home DSL
> > customers?
>
>Surely this is completely subjective?
>
>Wearing my end-user hat, I see, and expect, TCP traffic flowing at
>about 55kB/s on a BT Home 500 circuit, and proportionally higher
>throughputs on the 1000 and 2000 offerings.
>
>If it routinely fell below about 75% of the theoretical maximum even
>to close sites, I'd switch providers.
>
>--
>Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children.
> - George Bernard Shaw
Luke Parrish
Centurytel Internet Operations
318-330-6661
