RE: [SLUG] slow network - was: Burning CD: e-Smith: Update -2

From: Bob Foxworth (bfoxworth@fortresstech.com)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 16:35:24 EDT


        I ran PingPlotter from my cable modem point to a rr.com DNS machine
        which was 5 hops, entirely through the rr network, over 24 hours,
the
        average rtt latency was 17 ms with practically no skew or deviation
and
        zero ping loss, at 6 AM on a Monday, and ranged from 50 to 120 ms
with
        maybe 10% loss between 7 and 11 PM on Sunday night. This shows just
        the contention with other regional TimeWarner cable users. The
latency
        always shows a big peak (i.e. slower response) in the evening.

        I can see bursts of activity where the response grinds to a halt for
so many
        seconds, then recovers. Perhaps I lost my place in the internet
heirarchy
        to an 8 year old kid playing video games. Ah the fairness of it
all...

> The net did not slow
> down at 8:00 AM in the morning. The net slowed down at 8:00 PM on
a Friday
> night.

> This is
> behavior that I have observed this on more than one occasion. The
only reason
> I can think of for this kind of response is that a number of big
machines are
> doing massive transfers after normal business hours in the US.



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