Hi Chris
Your statement makes something of a presumption as to the architecture
of a network. In many networks, edge aggregation devices do not
participate in backbone routing, but simply pass the traffic they are
aggregating into the core.
One fairly well instrumented network that does have th
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:
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I have found that "acceptable speeds" for residential users will vary widely
from one area of the country to another. To a large degree it is a perception
issue rather than an empirical one (ie www.cnn.com loads "too slowly"). The
best metric for the happiness of a DSL customer base seems to
