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  From: Leigh Hart <hart@dotat.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:01:22 +1030

Re: ADSL Enabled Exchange Areas: Updated 20/11/2000

HI Darryl,

"Darryl Ross" <dross@syc.asn.au> wrote:
> 
> Ping time between our machine and pretty much any ISP in Adelaide
> I've pinged is between 40 and 90ms, which is a _little_ bit better
> than a modem :)

low ping rocks for gaming - but for anything else, throughput is what
really counts (apart from interactive, eg telnet, for example).

> considering that all our data goes over to Melbourne and back.

That's the sucky bit.  I've been playing around with a Bigpond ADSL
line on my girlfriend's phone line and found it quite acceptable in
terms of throughput, but going via Melbourne to get across town is
a little absurd (and sucks for game ping times).

My ADSL line, on the other hand, doesn't go via Melbourne.

>  7  eth0.core1.adelaide.netcraft.com.au (203.16.230.97)  129.884 ms !X

[...snip...]

> What's with the unreachable messages for Netcraft?

Firewall protection :)

(!X is "communications prohibited by filter", !U is "unreachable").

Cheers

Leigh
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