Last evening, I got a representative from my ISP (AT&T) and while he was on the line we ran some checks against known sites. Apparently, they have some sites that they know will give a very close reading every time they access them. In my case, ALL the responses from the ten sites were a bit on the low side but still well within acceptable - to them as well as me - ranges.
For grins, I asked them to time my access to the N3V forum. To cut a story short, they found that over five pages of forum, I was was actually disconnected seven times, had delays of up to 160Ms on most of them, and a lot of data arrived over multiple (but slow) paths and had to wait for the packets to be assembled. I was unaware of that last aspect.
Before we hung up, I was assured that they would try and find out what all the delay was about. I also found out that I wasn't the only one who was complaining about sites hosted on 'The Planet' so the whole thing may be a combination of bad paths between them and me as well as slow servers on their side. Whatever the case, my access to this forum is flawed and until something is done I probably won't be here a lot because it is just two painful to sit and wait for pages to appear.
Bill
EDIT: It does seem to be a lot faster today, but it is early in the morning here. Let me try again this evening when everyone gets home from work.
For grins, I asked them to time my access to the N3V forum. To cut a story short, they found that over five pages of forum, I was was actually disconnected seven times, had delays of up to 160Ms on most of them, and a lot of data arrived over multiple (but slow) paths and had to wait for the packets to be assembled. I was unaware of that last aspect.
Before we hung up, I was assured that they would try and find out what all the delay was about. I also found out that I wasn't the only one who was complaining about sites hosted on 'The Planet' so the whole thing may be a combination of bad paths between them and me as well as slow servers on their side. Whatever the case, my access to this forum is flawed and until something is done I probably won't be here a lot because it is just two painful to sit and wait for pages to appear.
Bill
EDIT: It does seem to be a lot faster today, but it is early in the morning here. Let me try again this evening when everyone gets home from work.