Extra latency at ATT exchange for UVerse

2010-11-11 Thread Srikanth Sundaresan
Can anyone explain why ATT's UVerse adds significant delay to packets compared to their ADSL service? For example, pinging 8.8.8.8 from an ADSL gateway shows a latency of ~10ms. From an UVerse gateway, it's about 40ms. Of the extra 30ms, about 10ms can be explained by the fact that UVerse last

Re: Extra latency at ATT exchange for UVerse

2010-11-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:11:47PM -0500, Srikanth Sundaresan wrote: Here are the traceroutes (without the first 3 hops) (Note: NANOG is not really the right place to troubleshoot everyone's home connectivity, I'm mostly just posting this as an educational example of how to do inter-network

Re: Extra latency at ATT exchange for UVerse

2010-11-11 Thread Paul WALL
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Srikanth Sundaresan srknt...@gmail.com wrote: Here are the traceroutes (without the first 3 hops) The U-Verse infrastructure is a bit of a mess when you get closer to the end subscriber. There will be a few more L3 hops as your packets egress the metro area

Re: Extra latency at ATT exchange for UVerse

2010-11-11 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:39 -0500, Srikanth Sundaresan wrote: Can anyone explain why ATT's UVerse adds significant delay to packets compared to their ADSL service? U-Verse is actually the name of two entirely different services - VDSL and FTTP. This is a typical symptom of stupidity on behalf