[NCLUG] DSL Throttling or General Congestion?

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Fri Nov 17 17:55:45 MST 2006


On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:46:02PM -0700, F.L. Whiteley wrote:
> I was asked by a friend of a customer to look at his PC yesterday about
> some issues.
>  
> The customer has 256K DSL on local regional ISP megacentral, the friend
> has MSN/Qwest DSL 1.5Mbps.  Since he was a fellow pilot, I thought I'd
> show him a couple of YouTube videos.  The performance was terrible.  The
> video stopped to buffer about every 15 seconds and couldn't be smoothly
> viewed until cached.  It was worse than the buffering on a 256K
> connection.  I have a couple of 1.5Mbps DSL on the same regional ISP and
> have never had a YouTube video skip a beat.  I have another in the local
> senior center on a wireless router with the same regional ISP and even
> with 10-12 laptops connected, I've never seen this type of performance.
> The ActionTec Internet/Ethernet lights were blinking pretty slowly.

Are you positive it wasn't a PC issue rather than a connection issue --
or that, just maybe, YouTube wasn't having an off day?

Just a thought.

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