On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:37 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:12:22PM +0200, David Randelman wrote: > > > From my experience the main problem is believe it or not your download > > speed as well, the ISP creates huge buffers of data being sent to you. > > If you want low latency you will have to disable the ISP downlink buffer > > or at least reduce it, normally from my experience a 1.5Mbit line needs > > to be reduced by half at least. Once you have done this you will have > > much lower latency. > > I recently tried to use my Vonage (VoIP) line to the U.S. to send faxes. > > After much asking around and talking to their technical support, I > found that the latency of a cable modem connection was much higher > than that of an aDSL line. > > Geoff.
Umm... weird. My experience seem to suggest otherwise. I was/am connected to netvision via cable (back then, ADSL) using pptp. The packet latency between me and netvision's pptp server is a bit lower on my cable modem. (Cable: ~15-20ms, ADSL: ~20-30ms) Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
