[ale] [OT] DSL and latency

[Justin Caratzas]

Have you tried different DNS servers? OpenDNS?

bigjust

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:14:47PM -0400, PairOfTwins wrote:
> All:
> 
> A friend on Earthlink DSL, eight miles from my own Earthlink DSL, had 
> lousy speed tests despite all our complaints.  NOW her Mac gets over 
> 3000 kbps at speakeasy's speedtest.
> 
> However, when sites took 10 - 20 sec to bring up any content, I did a 
> bunch of pings:
> 
> yahoo.com   ave 1313 ms, 12% loss
> 2wire.com  ave 1661 ms, 4% loss
> earthlink.net  ave 1466 ms, 0% loss
> 
> while my own Earthlink 3 mbit connection shows ave 85 - 140 ms, with 0% 
> loss.
> 
> So, is Earthlink correct to blame the wiring in her home, or is it 
> really their problem???  [note: all phones have filters]  My googling 
> hasn't provided much to go on.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
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