said by Kash76:I am getting frustrated with my ping times at around 70-100ms with interlacing. Qwest now will not turn this feature off. I have a local ISP with a single static IP which is great, the only complaint is the ping times. I am willing to sacrifice speed to get my ping down. I have 5 down and ~700k up. I know that SE would be using the same lines, knowing that would I have any benefits of trying SE?
If your close enough to the CO that has a Covad DSLAM, then you have a distinct possibility of getting a much better SE connection. SE w/Covad uses bridged ATM connections (no PPPoE), thus interleave factor can be set much lower when there is some noise on the line.
Note: PPPoE is a really fragile protocol, even minimal data corruption and/or loss breaks the PPP connection and magnifies the noise effect.
Net effect, my ping times with Speakeasy/Covad to 1st hop SE router 500 miles away(Atlanta) was way lower(25 to 35ms) when compared to my last local ISP (10 miles) using Bell South's DSLAM programmed with a noise profile(47ms).
Note: Before BS Noise Profile was activated my local ISP ping times were in the 8 to 9 ms range.
BS defacto (one size fits all) noise profile 16ms.
SE/Covad offers a greater variety of interleave profiles. (2ms, 4ms, etc.)
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