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Re: low-latency bandwidth for cheap?

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Thu Aug 05 17:29:16 2004 
> 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