 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
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 ·Bell Sympatico
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Re: [Internet] Bell 40 GB usage insurance discontinued said by HeadSpinning:said by DKS:said by Chuckcar OTT :The first hop is down to Chicago. That's great if you live in Chicago unfortunately we live in southern Ontario.
That's an advantage. My latency and speeds are consistently better to Chicago than anywhere else. Geographical distance means nothing. While I agree that good connectivity to the US is important - as that's where a large number of sites are hosted - Bell's refusal to peer is annoying. I find no liability with Bell's practice.
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| said by DKS:I find no liability with Bell's practice. Peering to the US is fine for most stuff. Where it may get a little annoying is when you are running latency/jitter-sensitive stuff from a server that is geographically located next door but has to take a 1000-5000km detour to switch networks because Bell has no local peer or route to other networks. VoIP is one of the most common applications that can be significantly degraded by this, locally hosted multi-player games would be another.
For everyday stuff like file downloads, browsing, torrents, streaming, etc., the extra jitter and latency has little to no effect. |
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kovy
join:2009-03-26
kudos:8 | said by InvalidError:said by DKS:I find no liability with Bell's practice. Peering to the US is fine for most stuff. Where it may get a little annoying is when you are running latency/jitter-sensitive stuff from a server that is geographically located next door but has to take a 1000-5000km detour to switch networks because Bell has no local peer or route to other networks. VoIP is one of the most common applications that can be significantly degraded by this, locally hosted multi-player games would be another. For everyday stuff like file downloads, browsing, torrents, streaming, etc., the extra jitter and latency has little to no effect. Hmmm... New york or chicago is still quite close... I don't think you'd see a big difference. |
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Bell Sympatico
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said by InvalidError:said by DKS:I find no liability with Bell's practice. Peering to the US is fine for most stuff. Where it may get a little annoying is when you are running latency/jitter-sensitive stuff from a server that is geographically located next door but has to take a 1000-5000km detour to switch networks because Bell has no local peer or route to other networks. VoIP is one of the most common applications that can be significantly degraded by this, locally hosted multi-player games would be another. For everyday stuff like file downloads, browsing, torrents, streaming, etc., the extra jitter and latency has little to no effect. For those of us who live outside on urban centers, this is a fact of life. You get used to the fact that any geolocating apps show Guelph or Kitchener. I confine my gaming to North American servers (BF3) and find no difficulty. Ping is always >100ms.
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:20 | said by DKS:For those of us who live outside on urban centers, this is a fact of life. You get used to the fact that any geolocating apps show Guelph or Kitchener. I confine my gaming to North American servers (BF3) and find no difficulty. Ping is always >100ms. I live in the most densely populated neighbourhood of the second largest province in the country, and I geolocate to either a large city 550KM away or a tiny farming town 800KM away... Of course, for all intents and purposes, the other end of my DSL connection is in Toronto, so anything in Toronto *is* a local server to me.
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