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![]() We are a business located on a business park. Our 1MB Star.net connection is suffering pings of nearly a second to UK sites. Our business 20:1 contention ratio may be the problem - are we likely to share with other businesses on the park, whose internet use may be similar to ours (2Gb/day)? Our previous kilostream link (128kb/s) was much quicker but much more expensive. Would we be better binding some of our ISDN lines? We have 12, six of which are required for video conferencing. JPG |
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![]() "JPG" wrote in message ... We are a business located on a business park. Our 1MB Star.net connection is suffering pings of nearly a second to UK sites. Our business 20:1 contention ratio may be the problem - are we likely to share with other businesses on the park, whose internet use may be similar to ours (2Gb/day)? Our previous kilostream link (128kb/s) was much quicker but much more expensive. Would we be better binding some of our ISDN lines? We have 12, six of which are required for video conferencing. JPG The leased-line would be quicker as it is a 1:1 link to your ISP (and it was 128kb/s up, 128kb/s down) so you can't compaire this line to an ADSL line. Regarding the ISDN, you could bind the other 6 lines, but depending on how your telco bills you for the call charges, this solution may be VERY expensive. The best solution would be a 1:1 contention ADSL link (these come at a premium but are far cheaper than a leased-line), or if you want the benefit of the symetrical dfata link, go for a 10:1 (1:1 if finances permit) SDSL |
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![]() On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:44:33 +0100, JPG wrote: Our 1MB Star.net connection is suffering pings of nearly a second to UK sites. check the exchange at http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/ specifically the VP capacity. does the throughput suffer as well as the ping time ? http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp tracert www.bbc.co.uk or similar might be illustrative 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms *.*.demon.co.uk [10.0.0.2] 2 34 ms 28 ms 27 ms thus6-hg2.kingston.broadband.bt.net [217.41.134. 73] 3 31 ms 28 ms 27 ms 217.41.134.1 4 34 ms 29 ms 27 ms 217.41.134.106 5 33 ms 26 ms 29 ms park-inside-1-g3-0-0-s193.router.demon.net [194.159.246.66] 6 38 ms 28 ms 29 ms tele-border-2-g1-0-2.router.demon.net [194.70.98.198] 7 40 ms 28 ms 29 ms demon-te4-3-607.prt0.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [195.11.50.66] 8 26 ms 27 ms 28 ms 212.58.238.149 9 27 ms 27 ms 29 ms www41.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.86] Trace complete. Phil -- Tiscali - dialup speeds at Broadband prices, see http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders. |
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