Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard B. Gilbert <[email protected]> said: >> My bet would be that there is an asymmetry in your ADSL link! If I'm >> not mistaken, the "A" in ADSL stands for asymmetric! > > The asymmetry in ADSL is in bandwidth, not path or latency. More > frequency space is used for downstream (ISP->end user) communication > than for upstream, but both travel the same path. > > There may be asymmetric routing going on (very often the case when you > talk to a host across the Internet, especially if either your ISP or the > remote host's ISP are multihomed), but it is highly unlikely it is > happening between the end user and his own ISP. >
The difference in bandwidth would mean that a packet of N bytes would take more time in one direction than the other! I don't know if that would be sufficient to account for the observed behavior but I can't think of another explanation. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
