4 May
2010
4 May
'10
8:04 a.m.
Hi!
Either you're looking only at the loop contribution, or you're in the SF bay area and nearly every "typical site" is available locally. Here in the relatively backwater Seattle suburbs, unless it's served by Microsoft or a content distribution network, there are substantial latencies to typical sites.
To make it concrete I used Windows ICMP tracert against a few sites from both cable and DSL in the Seattle suburbs. First from a consumer-grade cable offering:
Then from a business-class telco DSL (complete with more than 1 static IP, someone tie me down lest my soul escape my body from sheer joy!):
I am in the Netherlands, and its pretty common there to have low latency on DSL ;) Bye, Raymond.