From: Gilboa Davara (gilboad_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 23 Jan 2006 - 16:50:41 IST
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:37 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 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.
Umm... weird. My experience seem to suggest otherwise.
I was/am connected to netvision via cable (back then, ADSL) using pptp.
The packet latency between me and netvision's pptp server is a bit lower
on my cable modem. (Cable: ~15-20ms, ADSL: ~20-30ms)
Gilboa
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