[Ti] [OT] DSL Speed Test

[Chris Scott]

What's your reference to 'MAE East and West or equivalent nodes"? 
Are those technical terms or a joke (Mae West) that I'm not getting?

Thanks again.


Jesse Brown wrote:

>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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