Yes I get a fast 20 Mbps at my house for cheap $$. But is it worth it when the trade off with a 500 ms ping?
$ mtr -r www.google.com HOST: imac.home Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|– myrouter.home 0.0% 10 349.5 400.4 50.2 621.0 194.7 2.|– l100.lsanca-vfttp-75.veri 0.0% 10 395.3 381.9 203.7 561.5 130.9 3.|– g3-2-975.lsanca-lcr-09.ve 0.0% 10 337.6 332.4 201.8 492.7 119.4 4.|– so-3-1-0-0.lax01-bb-rtr1. 0.0% 10 346.3 427.3 147.7 654.5 171.8 5.|– 0.so-2-2-0.xl3.lax15.alte 0.0% 10 506.5 477.4 71.6 762.6 215.6 6.|– tengige0-6-0-0.gw4.lax15. 10.0% 10 588.4 502.4 184.4 758.7 184.3 | `|– 152.63.115.178 | |– 152.63.115.242 | |– 152.63.114.217 | |– 152.63.114.213 | |– 152.63.112.73 7.|– google-gw.customer.alter. 10.0% 10 561.7 550.0 228.8 727.6 156.4 8.|– 64.233.174.238 11.1% 9 573.2 562.6 278.1 777.4 171.8 9.|– 72.14.236.11 11.1% 9 494.1 489.9 252.5 676.4 152.4 10.|– lax02s01-in-f16.1e100.net 11.1% 9 437.9 430.2 133.8 632.4 169.3
Verizon FiOS is Fast... But Slow
March 14, 2012
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