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  From: John Edwards <isplist@adam.com.au>
  To  : Steve Saville <steve@pentasys.com>
  Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:31:02 +0930

Re: Traverse's DOV via NetJet - Is it worth looking at

Steve Saville wrote:
> 

> Basically- i have not cottoned on to the history of your chats, however, has
> anyone played around with the ISDN (NETJET) kit (DOV) from Traverse? A cheap
> alternative to Cable and ADSL - giving 128 access at a reasonable price
> (after Paying Telstra off for Onramp).
> 
> I am currently running it, windows style, and proves ok. I would like to
> know how it fares under Linux.

It does well. Under Windows the average latency is above 100ms, but the
same system with linux will yield ~30ms ping times on an old pentium, to
19ms on a celeron or better. Great for gaming, and you get better
latency than Telstra ADSL users when playing on Adelaide servers.

Traverse are developing drivers to make the windows latency better, but
they're so alpha quality at this stage your PC might catch fire when
using them - don't ask for them, traverse will deny they exist.

The Netjet card does seem to have some issues with a 2.4 kernel and
multilink, Traverse recommend using a 2.2 kernel. The netjet uses DMA to
talk to the B channels, which might have something to do with it.

John Edwards

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