Hi, > Not at all. Remember that the packets have to go through gateways.
So I wonder, are those ISP's using Cisco's 1XXX/2XXX routers which makes those packet loss? An ISP should have a very fast equipment which shouldn't loose packet like nuts. Thats unacceptable these days, specially when it comes to any serious video streaming, for example. Few days ago I did a small test from a hosted server in one of the big ISP's here and tried to do some HD streaming for a test I'm performing. I have 5MBit ADSL, so I thought that it should be sufficient.. It was - but due to the packet loss, the stream becomes jerky playback (not because of my machines here at home). > If your ISP has a direct connection to another ISP, or is part of > the same network, for example ActCom and BBL, or 013 and Netvision, > then things will go very smoothly. If they are not, you are dependent > upon their interconnection. As much as I know (and it least according to my tests which I did 2 minutes ago with traceroute), all of the ISP's are connected between themselves with fiber optics directly. > At one time all packets between ISPs went via the IIX, which tends to > become overloaded in the afternoon. I don't know if that has changed, > and if it has for all packets, or just ones that the ISPs want to have > high priority. Now that they are connected between themselves, I don't think IIX is alive any more. anyone knows whats the status of IIX these days? Doron? > International sites are different. Your ISP connects to another ISP, > which connects to another ISP and so on. For example, I can get > ping times of less than 200ms to some sites in the U.S. and > over a second to others. Yeah, which makes any hosting video streaming outside Israel a joke, unless you have lots of money either for a slice of optic from Med1 or using anything like Akamai's services. > Hopefully BEZEQ passes all tunneled data equally, it's up to your ISP > to forward the data as it sees fit. Israel has no regulations about > port and protocol blocking or traffic shaping (QOS routing). QOS for traceroute? never heard of this thing before... > All ISPs do traffic shaping and 012 is notorious for it. I don't want to be sued, but my hunch tells me that all of the ISP's are doing QOS for stuff like Bittorrent, emule/edonkey etc. but not blocking those ports (which would be a joke when it comes to bittorrent.. It doesn't care if you block 6881-6888 TCP as long as you open something else). Thanks, Hetz ================================================================= 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]
