Emulating ADSL bandwidth shaping

Tue May 4 12:04:17 UTC 2010

Hi!

> Either you're looking only at the loop contribution, or you're in the
> SF bay area and nearly every "typical site" is available locally.
> Here in the relatively backwater Seattle suburbs, unless it's served
> by Microsoft or a content distribution network, there are substantial
> latencies to typical sites.
>
> To make it concrete I used Windows ICMP tracert against a few sites
> from both cable and DSL in the Seattle suburbs.  First from a
> consumer-grade cable offering:
>
> http://pastebin.com/TGc6xsHk
>
> Then from a business-class telco DSL (complete with more than 1 static
> IP, someone tie me down lest my soul escape my body from sheer joy!):

I am in the Netherlands, and its pretty common there to have low latency 
on DSL ;)

Bye,
Raymond.