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Re: in the centrum of the payla



On Thu, 21 May 1998, Ben - Nes Michael wrote:

> Well u r wrong the bandwidth has a major effect on your latency.
> 
AFAIK, this isn't true. it take X sec to pass through fiberoptic line with
 y kilometers. no matter how much bandwidth you get.
 
> latency - The time that pass between the time u sent the ping until it
> got back
that it correct.

> 
> my ping to the closest hop is now 25-30 when the line is clear (128 kb)
> once it was 40-50 with 64 kb
> 
maybe your 64k was full?

> at satellites any way the latency much bigger and if u want to surf its
> much slower but if its for ftp its don't matter.
> 
that what I said.
latency is good for interactive application. 

--Asher

> > 
> > On Thu, 21 May 1998, Ben - Nes Michael wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Well u didn't mention what line u used any way satellite add at least
> > > 700 to latency while optic fiber adds 50
> > >
> > > With 128 kb optic line got this from israel
> > 
> > the latency has nothing to do with your line bandwidth,
> > you can get the same ping RTT with a T1 and a 128k line.
> > 
> > short latency is a nice thing to have. especially if you do alot of
> > streaming audio/video and interactive application over the internet.
> > 
> > I wouldn't measure internet performance only by ping RTT.
> > 
> > -- Asher
> > 

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