Darren Hayes wrote: > Observing only a few brief outages a year sounds pretty darn good. And the > follow-up responsiveness sounds especially impressive, when considering your > location is outside of metro area.
Yes, I'm happy with them overall. > What particular variant of DSL service are you connected with? What methods > do you recommend in testing/measuring both downstream and upstream bandwidth > and latency? IDSL is the only thing available here. 144 Kbps symmetric. For bandwidth measurement, find a fast server and upload or download files. Make sure the file can't be compressed significantly -- use video or gzipped data. wget, e.g., will report the transfer rate. If you use a realtime monitor like gkrellm, you can see whether the transfer is bursty or continuous. ping is a good latency tester. Ping the router on the opposite end of your DSL line. (Use traceroute or mtr to find it.) Also ping the sites you care about most: www.euglug.org, milton.efn.org. (-: mtr reports latency took. Packet loss is the other interesting thing to measure. Ping and mtr also report that. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
