10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Wed Feb 27 05:53:38 UTC 2013

On 26 February 2013 20:03, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
>
> [ quoting me ]
>> > Ironically, I suspect that it's for the same reason that East Germany has
>> > right up to the minute telephony services these days, while West German is
>> > still sucking hind tit:
>> >
>> > The big properties are, over all, likely to skew somewhat older in
>> > building construction, and because of that, they're not built/wired
>> > for the internal transport; too much rebar in the walls blocking
>> > wifi and stuff like that.
>
> A comment off list pointed out to me that sometimes, it's the reverse:
>
> The property jumped on-board in the late nineties, putting in a system
> worthy of the next decade...
>
> and has never updated it, cause it's "good enough".

Brand new Hyatt Place in NorCal, less than 2 years old, Fast Ethernet
in every room:

This is a smokeping of their SureWest (ADSL or FFTH) connection, all
within NorCal, ~20ms latency on a good millisecond:

http://www.dslreports.com/r3/smokeping.cgi?target=network.9b37669cada3f00d348b647453067844.CA1
(half-second latency is common, above 1s latency is not unheard of)

This is a smokeping of their AT&T (T1?), which seems to be only
marginally better, but on a good millisecond, it's only 10ms:

http://www.dslreports.com/r3/smokeping.cgi?target=network.bb79d93501996d88968e851234250c6a.CA1

Time on the graph is in dslr timezone (ET), not in hotel's time (PT),
but the trends are pretty obvious.

Now.  Good luck typing and then editing that that rm -rf in your ssh!
Or picking up that conference call through a VPN.

C.