Re: Is AT&T Fscking With My Connection?

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:54:26 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:19:40 +0000, alexd <troffasky@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann (for it is he) wrote:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:59:00 -0600, Sqwertz <swertz@cluemail.compost>
wrote:

Which wouldstill be fine if it didn't drop out for 5 seconds every 7
seconds.

That's not going to go away.  That's the way it's done.  Same with
Comcast 1Mbit/sec service.  You get a fast burst, long delay, fast
burst, long delay, etc.

I think there is something amiss here. I can understand only getting 560kbps
when paying for 768kbps service, but surely pausing the traffic for 40% of
the time effectively gives a rate of 330k, if he's peaking at 560kbps?

That's because the Win 7 widget that he's using is a "network meter"
not a benchmark program.  The network meter will show traffic as
reported by the NDIS driver, probably using TCP, which requires ACK's.
The benchmark program will probably use UDP which does not require
ACK's.  The lower figure for TCP versus UDP is caused by the dead time
on the uplink between data bursts.

I have no idea what you're talking about ;-) but it doesn't do that at
3.0Mbps in the least.  And those are 5 second gaps there.  The
Windnows network activity meter shows the same thing.  And most of all
I CAN FEEL IT turn off and on as my web pages load.

-sw