Charles L. Cotton wrote:Well, that burns me up. Here is the result from my office with a T-1! Of course, the T-1 is being used for our telephone system also and I'm sure everyone up here today is playing games or listening to music.
I'll run this test at home.
Chas.
Chas,
A T1 by definition is limited to 1.5Mbx1.5Mb. That's 1536Kb x 1536Kb (minus some overhead). The reason it is so expensive is that upload and the fact that it's a commercial line, which means much better support. Your upload is far and above everyone else's here (aside from KB5AKO, but he didn't post the details of his connection). From what you posted, it looks like very little of your line was being used during that test, and what is being used is easily explained by phone traffic and very light usage.
John
For the record, I'd sooner have a T1 line like yours than a 5Mbx512Kb which seems to be pretty common in everyone else's posts. A T1 is more reliable, consistent, and has dedicated bandwidth, and appropriate for many more services than a residential DSL or cable line. In fact, I've had T1 lines running into my home in the past, I just can't afford that anymore (and you can't normally get one in an apartment anyway).
), that's going to be the best latency you're ever going to achieve on a satellite connection. It's physically impossible to get otherwise.