sjm wrote on 18-9-2007 15:27: > Is this not true only for the case where one is saturating the link and, > therefore, being throttled to the link max speed. If one where only > using 100kbits up/down in the above example, would things not be > symmetrical and only start to be asymmetrical when the traffic reached a > point where one side is being throttled to the speed? > > Just wondering.
No, don't think so. According to Rusty's explanation the delay is caused by clocking the packet into the link bit for bit, not by waiting for a saturated link to become free. The high bandwith downlink has a higher clockspeed than the lower bandwith uplink. Don't really know what you mean by "throttling to max speed". Can one exceed max speed? As far as I know dsl lines are synced at a constant rate, but I'm not an expert in this field. Jan _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
