Re: (PM) Strange Situation

Brian Elfert (brian@citilink.com)
Fri, 24 Dec 1999 10:10:38 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Greg GDS wrote:

> Now we ping all the other serves at less than 1Ms, and we can ping the PMs
> at less than 3Ms, we can ping the router in less than 3 Ms, we can even ping
> a site like altavista at around 140Ms from the network, but when we ping a
> user dialed into us it is 150 or more.

Modems introduce a lot of latency. Pinging any modem user in under 100ms
is quite good. 150ms is a little high, but we've found some of the cheap
modems like the HCF modems always have high ping times. You will see
higher ping time to a modem customer when they are downloading something.

Brian

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