Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Mar 22 10:53:57 CDT 2008
There use to be a site out there that would show the over-all performance of the world internet. It was free then. I wonder if there is an equivalent out there? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:52 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is anyone (in the us) seeing slooooooowwwwwwinternet? Well, the unfortunate part is that whether you get lightning response is largely determined by the route through the internet. Of course that route changes depending on where you are located. IOW to get to New York (for example) your route is entirely different than mine. I am routed down to Atlanta, then up the east coast. The physical fibers (and the companies that maintain them) are entirely different from yours. The other day I did tracert and saw just fine hop times until I hit WVFiber.net at which point it slowed to a crawl. Literally dropping from 8 or 10 or 14 milliseconds per hop to hundreds of milliseconds per hop. The end result is that DEPENDING on WHERE I am trying to connect to (what route has to be taken) I get stellar performance or abysmal performance. Same day, same time, just different destinations, and thus different routings to get there. The other day ATT was doing this same thing. 150 milliseconds PER HOP and I had to take 4 or 5 or 6 hopps on ATT lines to get to places like Microsoft.com or MSNBC.com. So FOR ME, trying to get stuff off of Microsoft was horridly slow. However if I tried to browse www.extremetech.com the pages popped up before I clicked the hotlink. OK, not quite but you get the point. It turns out that my ROUTE to Extremetech is over fast hops the whole way. Just the luck of the draw. Today OTOH, ATT is giving me about 90 ms / hop. Not stellar but certainly way better than 150 ms / hop. For me to get to MSNBC for example I have to go through 8 hops JUST on ATT. The difference between 15 ms / hop and 150 ms / hop, multiplied by 8 hops across ATT translates to abysmal browsing performance. So in fact it does not appear to be my ISP at all. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:35 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is anyone (in the us) seeing slooooooowwwwwwinternet? I definitely think that it is your ISP at fault, not the net. I'm getting lightning response and have been all day long. This is a cable connection here, and its response has always been stellar. Once in a long while, a thunderstorm has caused problems but they cleared that up pretty quickly. A. On 3/20/08, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > > This is getting irritating. I am paying money for high speed and some > fiber company between here and there is providing pitiful service. > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com