From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson (gsm_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 23 Jan 2006 - 15:37:04 IST
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:12:22PM +0200, David Randelman wrote:
> From my experience the main problem is believe it or not your download
> speed as well, the ISP creates huge buffers of data being sent to you.
> If you want low latency you will have to disable the ISP downlink buffer
> or at least reduce it, normally from my experience a 1.5Mbit line needs
> to be reduced by half at least. Once you have done this you will have
> much lower latency.
I recently tried to use my Vonage (VoIP) line to the U.S. to send faxes.
After much asking around and talking to their technical support, I
found that the latency of a cable modem connection was much higher
than that of an aDSL line.
Geoff.
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