On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:47:15PM -0500, Daniel Katz wrote:
> : Shahid I Malik wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:25:39PM -0500:
> > i have swbell dsl. service is fine never any outages, i hear techsupport really
>sucks but i have never needed to call it. the one thing that sucks is that its
>pppoe. but if you use a router like i am then its just like using dhcp... i get
>like 135-150 downloading and uploading is 15kbs. if you are uploading every computer
>on your lan will be horribly slow (the shared net connection). if im uploading and
>want to browse www pages its like modem speed.
>
> Unlike Shahid, I have the ability to press enter at least every 72
> columns. (grr)
>
> Anyway, I live in the same complex as Shahid and I monitor the
> performance a little bit more carefully. Over the last six months
> we've had three outages. One for more than a couple hours. When
> calling SWB tech support I got a recorded message saying:
>
> "We are currently aware for outages in the
> following areas {..pause..} TEXAS".
>
> I found much amusement in that. Other than that service is good.
> It's not as good as what they claim it to be.
>
> I *HIGHLY* suggest getting a newer router with QoS (Quailty of
> Service) capabilities if you're planning on sharing the
> line at all.
>
> My roommate and I will have incredible latency problems (in the
> arena of 200+ms to SWB's servers (worse to UT Campus)
> (Ref: 28.8 modems get ~120) if one of us is running something like
> AudioGalaxy (RIP) or Kazaa and downloading at <15K/s.
>
> All in all they've got pretty good service.
with full uploads running (cable, 40-50k/s), my ping rests anywhere
between 700 and 1200 ms. QoS might be the ticket that i heard on irc (as
opposed to the aforementioned fair queueing)
--
daniel brown
UT CS undergrad
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