[aclug-L] Re: High-speed server access

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> --- neuralmatrix.org ping statistics ---
> 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 124.997/180.702/455.185 ms
>
> --- phoenyx.net ping statistics ---
> 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 121.301/134.747/170.723 ms
>
> A 50ms difference during non-peak times, when pinging from a SouthWind
> server.  I'd be interested to see what the difference is like during peak
> times--I'd venture to say that neuralmatrix.org would be MUCH slower then,
> when sktc's upstream feed (which, BTW, apparently goes through SouthWind,
> according to a traceroute) is saturated.  That's assuming that sktc
follows
> the same pattern of most small ISPs, and does saturate their
> upstream feed.

You are right. And the time of day you did the ping woul
too.  I pull a small news feed at the top of the hour.


> BTW, you mentioned that they get discount on their T3.... Why
> do they have
> a T3?  Or are they multi-homed?  If they have a T3 to SouthWind,
> then that's
> kinda dumb (unless it's cheaper than multiple T1s), because SouthWind
> doesn't even have a full T3 worth of upstream bandwidth.

The situation is that for a while they were forwarding their local modem
calls over a voice line to their connection center in Wichita. They have
since moved their Clearwater service to the Clearwater office.  I'm still
on the old system until they get the dedicated modems installed this week.
At than time I'll be connected via Quest's backbone.  Connection through
SouthWind has sucked for the last month or so, with excessive ping times
coming off of SouthWind's backbone provider. As for T1 or T3, I was under
the impression that they were moving up from a T1, but that may have just
been they are adding more T1's.

--dwh

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