Hexis wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:24:12PM -0700, James Bowling wrote:
Well, since we are stating what we do for a living...I am a Network Engineer at a Datacenter in Downtown LA and I would also like to pose a question to your response. How many people live across the street from a CLEC? Not many that game if you look at the entire picture. And still, 80-90ms is crappy anyway...ask any network guy.
Termonolgy time!
LEC = Local Exchange Carrier (aka The Phone Company) CLEC = Competitive LEC (the new kid on the block) ILEC = Incumbant LEC (the old fart, or ma bell's love child)
LEC CO = LEC Central Office, that's where your phone lines actually go. From there on out they are switched in a big ol network. The COs are usually owned by the ILEC and parts are rented out to the CLECs.
And yeah, 80ms is sucky for gaming.
-- Hexis www.hxxl.com
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What really sucks is Interweaving. Qwest uses it as an attempt to lower CRC errors on DSL lines. This adds 30 to 40 ms latency on my connection.
I have the Qwest 1.5/1.5 connection (Actually, its more like 1.2/1.0). It runs my server well, but that extra added latency makes for a really unpopular server. However, the pings and performance on my server is solid, just a little high.
I even offered to pay Qwest to remove interweaving, but they said no. Maybe in another year or 2 they said they would get rid of it for new technology. We'll see :)
Joe
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