-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: > I'm not sure that is a good test either. > DSL speeds should be consistent between the CO and your house, because you > have a dedicated circuit. Broadband speeds can vary depending on traffic on > your loop. Good broadband carriers limit the number of subscribers on a > single area. (Mediaone used to limit to 300). So testing between the ISP > and your home will potentially measure those variations. > But, measuring inside the ISP does nothing to measure their connection to > the Internet.
It occurs to me that when the issue is as complicated as suggested by the fact that so many intelligent people familiar with the topic can't come to an agreement about how to perform meaningful tests, then the results are probably not worth trying to obtain, unless there is a significant investment of $$ tied to the outcome. As DSL and cable provide fairly similar performance (e.g. both substantially faster than dial-up) for fairly similar price, I personally find it's not worth worrying about the differences in performance. Particularly where both tend to be somewhat variable in nature. I'm much more concerned about whether my provider will be around next year. I don't expect AT&T to disappear any time soon. Not nearly so sure about Covad and its resellers. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8cU0NdjdlQoHP510RAmJcAJ9JGm6o3tyYODJwJwym10zWj1l0OwCfd9RX zpWk9tA6PwwH0DJ1z6TrC14= =0ZtO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
