[NCLUG] Re: DSL Throttling or General Congestion?

[Brian Wood]

John L. Bass wrote:

> You might be VERY vocal to your clients providers about the difficult
> problems your clients are having with VPN access. It might provide some
> balance to the very vocal P2P and gaming users that demand all you can eat.

I talked to a bunch of gamers a while back, all they wanted to talk to
me about was "ping time", though they showed absolutely no indication
that they had any idea what that might mean, not that it is any sort of
official metric anyway.

Apparently some of the internet games show some sort of "ping time", and
when it showed something "worse" than the other online gamers they would
complain, even though they could not describe any other sort of problem.

Most customers are not very technical, the problem with the gamers is
that a lot of them seem to think they are :-)

beww