deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
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join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| reply to dadkins
Re: limited newsgroup usage
You can't tell just by how many of your neighbors have it. You have no idea how Comcast has their node structure organized.
ping yahoo.com 25 times in a row and look at the ping fluxuations. Mine used to be horrible, with spikes during the night up in the triple digits. Makes for crappy performance in real-time applications and gaming.
$ tracert www.dslreports.com
Tracing route to dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.1
2 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms adsl-66-218-55-1.dslextreme.com [66.218.55.1]
3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms f0-1-1.cr1.sjc1.dslextreme.com [66.218.44.57]
4 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms GigabitEthernet4-3.GW2.SJC7.ALTER.NET [157.130.241.237]
5 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms POS4-0.XR1.SJC7.ALTER.NET [152.63.51.46]
6 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms POS5-0.XR1.SJC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.52.133]
7 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms 0.so-0-0-0.XL1.SJC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.55.114]
8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 0.so-3-0-0.TL1.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.53.250]
9 78 ms 79 ms 78 ms 0.so-1-2-0.TL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.77]
10 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms 0.so-5-0-0.XL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.174]
11 78 ms 79 ms 80 ms POS6-0.GW1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.99.177]
12 80 ms 80 ms 80 ms nac-nj-oc12-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.60.182]
13 81 ms 81 ms 80 ms 0.ge-0-0-0.gbr1.oct.nac.net [209.123.11.49]
14 81 ms 80 ms 80 ms www.dslreports.com [209.123.109.175]
Trace complete.
Granted, this is during the day so your numbers may be better than they would at night when more people are on and people have their TVs on and whatnot.
Look at the variance even now in your tracert. Not really anything bad at all, but I would regularly see all hops with variations of 50ms or more. In your case, either your neighbors are light users, or there are multiple nodes in your area, reducing the load at the aggregation point.
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