switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?

Philip, Anil aphili01 at sprintspectrum.com
Thu Oct 4 14:29:08 CDT 2001


How is the voice on Sprint ION? We had reports that data was good, but voice
had problems.
thanks,
Anil
 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Rush [mailto:ky0dr at earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:52 PM
To: Dan Connolly
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: switch from swbell DSL to roadrunner?

Dan:

FYI, my Sprint ION connection gives me a hop or two less than the others
(woo-hoo):

[ky0dr at spec ky0dr]$ /usr/sbin/traceroute -n 18.29.1.34
traceroute to 18.29.1.34 (18.29.1.34), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  208.30.226.1  40.723 ms  39.101 ms  39.586 ms
 2  208.30.222.1  39.361 ms  39.050 ms  39.389 ms
 3  144.232.8.145  39.368 ms  39.052 ms  39.688 ms
.....
20  18.201.1.3  96.765 ms  96.648 ms  97.030 ms
21  18.24.10.1  97.542 ms  96.827 ms  97.224 ms
22  18.29.1.34  95.729 ms  96.458 ms  95.814 ms

[ky0dr at spec ky0dr]$ ping 18.29.1.34
PING 18.29.1.34 (18.29.1.34) from 192.168.1.3 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from web4.w3.org (18.29.1.34): icmp_seq=0 ttl=236 time=97.9 ms
64 bytes from web4.w3.org (18.29.1.34): icmp_seq=1 ttl=236 time=97.8 ms
64 bytes from web4.w3.org (18.29.1.34): icmp_seq=2 ttl=236 time=96.4 ms
...
64 bytes from web4.w3.org (18.29.1.34): icmp_seq=22 ttl=236 time=96.4 ms
64 bytes from web4.w3.org (18.29.1.34): icmp_seq=23 ttl=236 time=96.7 ms
64 bytes from web4.w3.org (18.29.1.34): icmp_seq=24 ttl=236 time=97.2 ms

--- 18.29.1.34 ping statistics ---
25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 96.2/97.2/98.6 ms

My ION service has been pretty darn stable, especially the data (it's a
combined voice+data service).  And the throughput is great... usually 3
Mbps or more, even through my Linksys router.

David




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