[ILUG] ISDN ping times

[Smelly Pooh]

In reply to Niall O Broin's flatulent wordings, 
> Hi all,
>        Perhaps you can help resolve something here - if you use ISDN to an
> ISP, can you please do a ping to the other end of your ppp link (the P-t-P
> address) and post the following:
> 
> ISDN equipment used, ISP, average ping time (use defaults with ping)

TA: Zyxel Omni TA 128 external (expensive but nicely featured)
ISP: Tinet

PING 159.134.238.24 (159.134.238.24): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=58.697 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=60.345 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=60.219 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=60.130 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=60.184 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=60.186 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=60.169 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=60.195 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=60.186 ms
64 bytes from 159.134.238.24: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=60.193 ms

--- 159.134.238.24 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 58.697/60.050/60.345/0.454 ms

My brother has a Diva internal ISDN
ISP: Unison 
Ping: average 35

ISP: Ocean
Ping: average 45

Both playing a lot of games we discuss pings often amongst ourselves and other
gamers and the general consensus is that yes, internal ISDN does offer lower
latency.  I'll try my ping times from unison next time I connect but I reckon
it won't be much different from tinet, if it is I'll followup.

There's often a similar discussion about modems aswell, especially winmodems
(I imagine because of the processing power already taken up by the game
starves the modem a bit).