[ale] Verizon and Comcast both offer faster speeds to customers

[Mike Harrison]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Mike Harrison wrote:

>> I'd be curious to know what folks think is 'acceptable latency'...
>
> When I'm SSH'd into a remote machine, it feels like I am "there".
> not typing through molassass. Ping times < 10ms is what I'm getting right
> now to servers 12 hops away from my desk and it feels good.
> A consistent "slower" speed is better than a fast one that stops and goes.
>
> If you haven't used "MTR" aka Matts Trace Route or My Trace Route
> from a command line, you should. It's an insight into network flow
> between two points.

And I was going to post and did a Ctrl-X by habit:

#mtr --report -c 5 geeklabs.com
HOST: trixbox1.localdomain        Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
   1. static-host-66-18-38-225.epb  0.0%     5    2.4   4.3   2.4   6.7   1.7
   2. ???                          100.0     5    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   3. ???                          100.0     5    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   4. ???                          100.0     5    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   5. 12.86.91.85                   0.0%     5    7.5   8.0   4.0  11.1   2.7
   6. tbr1.attga.ip.att.net         0.0%     5   11.3   7.3   4.3  11.3   2.7
   7. gar4.attga.ip.att.net         0.0%     5    5.5   8.1   5.5  10.4   2.0
   8. 12.117.176.62                 0.0%     5   11.2   9.1   6.4  12.6   2.7
   9. 67-63-226-42.arpa.kmcmail.ne  0.0%     5    7.7   9.8   7.7  11.7   1.8
  10. ???                          100.0     5    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0