[ILUG] ISDN Ping Times.

Daire Garvey daire at local.ie
Mon Sep 11 11:34:23 IST 2000


John Ronan wrote:
> 
> I missed most of the start of this thread but anyways
> 
> Ping times, 3COM ISDN Pro External TA
> 170 IEP Plus Vat has both Serial and USB ports.
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=72.707 ms
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=70.044 ms
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=70.003 ms
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=70.029 ms
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=70.084 ms
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=69.974 ms
> 64 bytes from 159.134.238.254: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=70.095 ms
> 
> I've found something which I'm going to have to investigate and its really
> annoying.  I take a file, say a couple of hundred K and try and scp it
> from my machine to another, doesn't matter where.

That's very high. My internal PCI ISDN TA (an Eicon Diva 2) averages
about 30ms on EircomNet and 15ms on BuyandSellNet (in Windows). A
30-50ms difference is intolerable to an avid gamer such as myself, gotta
have that railgun slug right on target.. ;)

D.




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