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Thanks, Hubris.

I have a Cox cable modem, and it\'s pretty good. I generally get pings under 100, no matter the time. D/l depends on the time of day, o\'course. From a good FTP server, during the day, I\'veaveragedt 250K/sec, and peaked at 300. At night, with more users, it is, of course, slower. Definitely better than a reg modem (duh). I couldn\'t find any info on DSL around here, and the people at Bell Atlantic knew jack about it, so I went with the cable modem. They pooched the install, so it didn\'t cost me anything, but it\'s usually around $150, and $45/month (if you have cable).

HTH

Hubris

He said \"cox\" huh huh huh huh..

cox... get it? cox..cocks.. huh huh huh huh

Actually, using the highway analogy, I would have said that the highway itself represents your bandwidth. Let\'s say a cable modem connection is a superhighway with 8 lanes going in each direction (I know, in reality it has 8 lanes for downloading and maybe 2 for uploading but let it go for now). When you\'re downloading data, we\'ll say that all 8 lanes are plugging along with data, cars, busses, SUV\'s, what have you. With the latency \"bus\", it doesn\'t matter that you have 8 lanes, it\'s still a bus. A bus is still going to take as long as a bus takes regardless of how much room you have on the highway (freeway for you west-coasters) for more cars and busses.
That said, anybody have a report on COX cable-internet? That\'s what\'s in my area and I am considering...

hey Grey, actually I\'m about 1 block away from Chimes, ate there yesterday. Great place :)

think about the alaska pipeline. That\'s your cable. The oil is the data. I don\'t know how many millions of gallons of oil go through it a day, but it\'s a lot (major bandwidth). But, the oil takes a long time to get from one end to another (at least i\'d think it does). Or, you can look at it like a highway. A small, fast sports car would be like a low latency device, getting a single person from one place to another quickly. Then you have a big-ass bus. It can move more than twice as many people, but it goes quite a bit slower. You wouldn\'t say the bus is faster because it can get more people someplace in a given amount of time. It\'s only bigger. The car is faster, but smaller. So somewhere on the conection on his cablemodem, there\'s something delaying transmission. It\'s not restricting it, just making it take longer for data to move.

Hey there,

I just noticed that you are in Louisiana. I used to go to L.S.U. untill I graduated and they threw me out of the state. Ever go to the Chimes? Damn I miss the food there. I am stuck in white-bread Tulsa Oklahoma now. They wouldnt know a good crawfish if it jumped up thier butts and wiggled here.

Take it easy,
Grey

Even though you explained it...still blows my mind. is kinda like i throw a base ball that thing flies...but when i throw a wiffle ball just as hard it still goes slow. is that what its like

no, latency isn\'t necessarily directly related to bandwitdth. Consider satellites, they can get something like 400k/s dowload speed, but send a ping through, and it takes (wild ass guess) 500 millisecods to go from you compputer to the dish, up into space, through the satellite curcuitry, and then back down to earth. You have a fat pipe, but you\'re pushing sludge through it, so it doesn\'t get from one end to the other that fast. So you can have fat pipes with lots of bandwidth that are slow from a latency perspective.

why would you still have crappy pings if your dowload speed is 500k ?
is that against the law of physics.