Acceptable DSL Speeds (ms based)

Luke Parrish lukep at centurytel.net
Wed May 4 16:31:50 UTC 2005


Andrew, traceroute is an effective tool is measuring roundtrip in ms 
format. I am not looking for download speeds or standards, I have already 
established those. Yes I agree, traceroute is not an effective tool for 
measuring download speeds.

thanks,
luke


At 11:18 AM 5/4/2005, Andrew Lee wrote:


>Traceroute is not an effective measurement of performance.  Due to the way 
>routing devices process the packets it receives, it is possible for the 
>latency that appears in a traceroute is far higher than the latency of 
>traffic traversing that device.
>
>Luke Parrish wrote:
>>My email was confusing since I said the word speed, I would like to ms 
>>roundtrip for the following:
>>*1. CPE to first layer 3 hop
>>2. CPE to first layer 3 upstream hop
>>3. CPE to layer 3 exit point of upstream
>>*Example:
>>Trace route to www.yahoo.com
>><http://www.yahoo.com/>1. 10.10.10.1 (CPE) 1ms
>>2. 10.10.10.254 (DSLAM)(cte) 21ms*(first layer 3 hop)
>>*3. 11.1.1.1 (Router)(cte) 24ms
>>4. 5.5.1.3 (upstream interface)(level3) 68ms*(first layer 3 upstream hop)
>>*5. 5.4.3.2 (exit point of upstream)(handoff from level3 to at&t) 94ms 
>>*(layer 3 exit point of upstream)
>>*Those ms values are what I am curious about. What are other providers 
>>seeing and what are, in your opinion, acceptable ms times for a home 1.5M 
>>dsl user...
>>Luke
>>
>>
>>
>>At 10:40 AM 5/4/2005, Luke Parrish wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone have a good resource for acceptable speeds for home DSL 
>>>customers?
>>>
>>>I would like to see acceptable speeds from the customer CPE to the first 
>>>layer 3 hop, the hop to the upstream  and the hop that leaves the 
>>>upstream network.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>luke
>>>
>>>
>>>Luke Parrish
>>>Centurytel Internet Operations
>>>318-330-6661
>>Luke Parrish
>>Centurytel Internet Operations
>>318-330-6661
>

Luke Parrish
Centurytel Internet Operations
318-330-6661




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