ADSL & PINGS ????

[old.wayneker]

Ok peeps,

have any of u lot been involved in the adsl trials ?????

If so how was the connection to servers ???

Im assuming sub 30 pings but what about packet loss ??? are we talking super hyper space ???

Now this info is important cuz from march the 28th every q2 peep could have 24hr
connection from £40.00 pm (every peep in the first roll out area)!!!


Many thanks


[REG]WAYNE_KER

 

[old.sjp]

hehehehe, trying here now ?

 

[old.wayneker]

yup !!!!
;o)

 

[old.conform]

I have an excellent adsl connection, but the pings aren't insanely good. It's a 256K/256K line that actually gets about 640K upstream/275K down. I usually get 50-75 sub-100 pings, with a low end of 40 or so. Here at work, we're on a T1, and looking at gamespy, I count 120 pings under 60, with 30 of those being under 30. The lowest is 24 (about 15 servers getting that).

There are a numbor of factors here making my work pings better. My work is in Seattle, which is pretty central, net-wise, and we're "close" to a lot of servers up here. My house is in Olympia, 60 miles south of here, and isn't quite as central -- traffic to, say, San Francisco probably travels on a medium pipe north to Seattle before hopping on the big pipe down to SF (800 miles south).

If you're in London, you're probably more central than my adsl line, which means better pings. Plus it's all run through BT (right? I'm not positive about that) which increases the probility that everything is close together. Though I have massive amounts of faith in monopoly telecom's ability to screw things up...

Anyway, you might see rare sub-30 pings, but don't count on it. I still think it's a great thing. (plus it's flat rate -- I have a hard time believing you guys still pay per-minute charges for local phone calls)

-- conform

 

[old.Necro]

I'm trying to remember the statistic i read somewhere that showed that if Bell Atlantic used BT's charging structure, it would be more profitable than Microsoft.. Now guess why anyone who can dump BT are doing so..