: Daniel Brown wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:49:08PM -0500:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:47:15PM -0500, Daniel Katz wrote:
> > : Shahid I Malik wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:25:39PM -0500:
> > > i have swbell dsl. service is fine never any outages, i hear techsupport really
>sucks but i have never needed to call it. the one thing that sucks is that its
>pppoe. but if you use a router like i am then its just like using dhcp... i get
>like 135-150 downloading and uploading is 15kbs. if you are uploading every computer
>on your lan will be horribly slow (the shared net connection). if im uploading and
>want to browse www pages its like modem speed.
> >
> > Unlike Shahid, I have the ability to press enter at least every 72
> > columns. (grr)
> >
> > Anyway, I live in the same complex as Shahid and I monitor the
> > performance a little bit more carefully. Over the last six months
> > we've had three outages. One for more than a couple hours. When
> > calling SWB tech support I got a recorded message saying:
> >
> > "We are currently aware for outages in the
> > following areas {..pause..} TEXAS".
> >
> > I found much amusement in that. Other than that service is good.
> > It's not as good as what they claim it to be.
> >
> > I *HIGHLY* suggest getting a newer router with QoS (Quailty of
> > Service) capabilities if you're planning on sharing the
> > line at all.
> >
> > My roommate and I will have incredible latency problems (in the
> > arena of 200+ms to SWB's servers (worse to UT Campus)
> > (Ref: 28.8 modems get ~120) if one of us is running something like
> > AudioGalaxy (RIP) or Kazaa and downloading at <15K/s.
> >
> > All in all they've got pretty good service.
>
> with full uploads running (cable, 40-50k/s), my ping rests anywhere
> between 700 and 1200 ms. QoS might be the ticket that i heard on irc (as
> opposed to the aforementioned fair queueing)
>
QoS RULES the school..
You can set very simple traffic balancing such as: If a Nth user starts
using traffic, make sure he has at least 1/N potential bandwidth.
You can also limit machines and set other machines to have higher
priorities.
All the 'newer' routers coming out have some QoS. I wouldn't go out and
buy a Cisco 2600 series anytime soon though.
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