[Ti] [OT] DSL Speed Test

[Robert J. Fisher]

How can you improve "router latency"?  Or is that inherent in every router
that it goes through!
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Robert J. Fisher
fisherr at telus.net
Or
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> From: Jesse Brown <jesse.brown at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:21:26 -0400
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] [OT] DSL Speed Test
> 
> On 7/24/03 8:38, "Chris Scott" <crscott at newsguy.com> wrote:
> 
>> What does that mean?  Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> Jesse Brown wrote:
>>> 
>>> Whenever I specify T-1 service I always like to know at what tier the
>>> provider is. The closer to the backbone the better - I'm talking MAE East
>>> and West or equivalent nodes.
> 
> 
> Internet Service is like a tree. There's your house, the ISP and then their
> Provider and possibly another on top of that and it can go on. Anyone with a
> dedicated line can claim to be an ISP. But how many hops do you have to go
> through to reach the major backbone provider like AT&T, Sprint, Williams,
> etc who send traffic over VERY large optical pipes from one end of the
> country to the other.
> 
> How far down the food chain you are determines to an extent how many router
> hops you have to go through to get somewhere. Of course if the destination
> you're trying to reach is also buried deep in the tree it can take a lot.
> 
> This is why bandwidth per se is not always the measure of how fast a file
> can download or transfer. Video Conferencing is another application that
> suffers not from lack of bandwidth but router latency.
> -- 
> Jesse
> 
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