OT: Internet connectivity

[Fraser Campbell]

On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:10:43 Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:00:25PM -0400, Allen Taylor wrote:
> > I saw a mention of our old friend Istop. My feeling is that Teksavvy is
> > Istop without the politics - although Ralph Doncaster was entertaining
> > for a while. :-)
> >
> > Teksavvy: Fixed ip (or 2 or 6), choice of 100GB cap on PEER1 or
> > unlimmited on Cogent (but 5ms to 15ms more latency), servers allowed, no
> > blocks or throttling that I'm aware of, Dry-DSL, good price, good
> > support - I'm happy!
>
> The cogent vs peer1 is an interesting thing.  Which do you use?  Is
> peer1 that much faster and more reliable and more expensive for them to
> use?

Interesting, I'd never heard of this.  My teksavvy DSL is so boring and 
functional that I haven't thought about the network in eons.  I did recently 
noticed a speed increase (downloads now max out at around 500K though not 
always that fast).

Seems like I have quite a nice network ... here's my traceroute to google.ca:

traceroute to www.l.google.com (72.14.205.147), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  torridon (10.142.254.254)  0.303 ms  0.138 ms  0.125 ms
 2  206.248.154.102 (206.248.154.102)  9.024 ms  9.677 ms  9.052 ms
 3  65.39.134.1 (65.39.134.1)  8.857 ms * *
 4  198.32.245.6 (198.32.245.6)  9.151 ms  9.854 ms  9.989 ms
 5  66.249.94.90 (66.249.94.90)  9.128 ms  9.928 ms  9.195 ms
 6  72.14.236.138 (72.14.236.138)  9.346 ms 72.14.232.62 (72.14.232.62)  
10.599 ms 72.14.232.66 (72.14.232.66)  10.744 ms
 7  qb-in-f147.google.com (72.14.205.147)  10.839 ms  9.812 ms  9.766 ms

ping to CBC:

  PING a1849.gc.akamai.net (209.123.81.89) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 209.123.81.89: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=10.2 ms
  64 bytes from 209.123.81.89: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=10.3 ms
  64 bytes from 209.123.81.89: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=9.52 ms
  64 bytes from 209.123.81.89: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=10.1 ms
  64 bytes from 209.123.81.89: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=9.68 ms

With all taxes I pay $36.33 per month, which includes a static IP.  I've been 
with them since iStop, no noteworthy outages that I can recall.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
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