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Re: [NANOG] Comcast latency


From: "Jim Popovitch" <yahoo () jimpop com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:46:38 -0400

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:43:46 -0500
 mack <mack () exchange alphared com> wrote:

 > Has anyone else noticed a significant increase in latency within
 > Comcast's network?
 >
 On one quick test, it looks normal to me from my house.

Looks can sometimes be deceiving. ;-)  I've seen Comcast drop packets
left and right, but show 8Mbs/2Mbs on speed test sites.   Other times
I've seen the opposite, zero PL but extremely high latency (seconds,
double digits!)... all the while non-dynamic web pages (probably
cached upstream) loaded just fine.

Look, I've always been a big fan of Comcast.... but at this point I
suspect they have just about over-engineered their network.

-Jim P.

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