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I wonder how far away from your servers you are. Even 50ms from your computer, down the wire, through who knows how many network appliances then onto it's targ
by burgerbrain 16y ago
I wonder how far away from your servers you are. Even 50ms from your computer, down the wire, through who knows how many network appliances then onto it's target is pretty damned good if you think about it, and at 5ms it's just nuts. Light will only go about 1500 KM that fast..
- tumult 16y agoI'm in the Bay Area. The servers are in the Bay Area. I don't see why that's unreasonable. People don't know what they're missing now.
- techsupporter 16y agoI think burgerbrain is asking how far you are network wise from the target servers. Comcast, along with most of the other big residential ISPs, is notorious for having bad internal routing. It's possible your previous PacBell DSL connection had better routing to the servers in question, but Comcast doesn't. What does a traceroute look like? My fiber connection at home pings an average of 12ms to my colocated server in the same major city. However, a friend's cable modem connection through Time Warner, just two suburbs over, pings at an average of 43ms. My traceroute? 10 hops. His? 21 hops, and goes by way of Houston.
- burgerbrain 16y agoExactly. Without careful investigation I think it's wrong to assume that larger buffers are what is causing the difference between ping times between two different ISP at different points in time.