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Originally posted by Smilin' Joe Fission
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Sorry, but no.
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Not always.
A higher ping can also be caused by net congestion, packet loss, and bad hardware along the way. Therefore, higher ping times are not always a sign of distance.
Again no.
If the cause of a high ping on a T3 is because of bad hardware or packet loss, then file transfers will be affected as well. I'll take a rock solid 5Kbps from a modem user over a transfer that fluctuates from 0Kbps to 50Kbps intermittantly from a T3 user sitting behind a bad router anyday. |
LOL. Thats what i was gonna say, but I wasnt sure exactly how it worked. I was gonna use a nice VW Bug vs Mack Truck analogy, to explain it better.
I didnt even -think- about packet loss due to bad hardware, connections. I kept equating distance ::LOL::.
Thx again for clarifying that.