AT&T Cable

[Adam McDougall]

Looks like only through Chicago for me.  The first day I got it, I
pulled over 400k/sec from this server.  I think I may have been on a new
node.  (somegateway doesn't resolve when I run my own dns, so I put an
entry in hosts to make traceroute faster)

sapphire:~ % traceroute ftp.egr.msu.edu
traceroute to ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225), 64 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  somegateway.home.com (10.89.69.1)  38.928 ms  8.529 ms  7.979 ms
 2  bb1-fe1-0.elnsng1.mi.home.net (24.2.222.1)  8.648 ms  8.775 ms 
8.445 ms
 3  c1-se6-0.dtrtmi1.home.net (24.7.73.189)  11.175 ms  18.376 ms 
48.278 ms
 4  c2-pos2-0.chcgil1.home.net (24.7.64.169)  36.044 ms  16.200 ms 
49.159 ms
 5  24.7.70.154 (24.7.70.154)  18.666 ms  15.387 ms  16.304 ms
 6  iar1-loopback.Chicagochd.cw.net (208.172.2.16)  16.844 ms  58.582
ms  17.135 ms
 7  merit-its.Chicagochd.cw.net (208.172.10.138)  30.680 ms  37.085 ms 
33.856 ms
 8  atm2-1-0x1.msu2.mich.net (198.108.22.186)  33.668 ms  34.763 ms 
31.600 ms
 9  cc-rtr-ge28.net.msu.edu (35.9.82.97)  52.117 ms  31.409 ms  32.998
ms
10  wh-rtr-ge18.net.msu.edu (35.9.101.22)  44.169 ms  34.169 ms  89.174
ms
11  eb-rtr-ge18.net.msu.edu (35.9.101.18)  31.242 ms  33.422 ms  31.027
ms
12  jimbo.egr.msu.edu (35.9.32.9)  32.857 ms  102.953 ms  38.692 ms
13  ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225)  35.064 ms  36.000 ms  35.885 ms

Mark Szidik wrote:
> 
> I am sure its fine, but if you are a heavy user of MichNet based
> hosts (I am) latency be a problem.
> 
> I have ACD DSL and I am happy with overall throughput, but
> latency to MichNet hosts is pretty slow because they are not on
> MichNet backbone, every packet for me to MichNet get routed via
> the Chicago Nap, which sucks.
> 
> Marcel was recently saying that he thinks all of ATT @home users
> route through Phoenix before coming back to MichNet.  That would
> be awful for me.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Mark Szidik
> 
> On 24 Jul 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > "Daniel R . Kilbourne" <drk@voyager.net> writes:
> >
> > > Anyone have experience with how good/bad AT&T Cable modems are
> > > in the area? They just became available here, and I am debating
> > > whether it is worth dumping my frame circuit or not.....
> >
> > One of my friends (in DeWitt) has an AT&T cable modem.  It works
> > well for him.  He's got half a dozen machines on an internal
> > router and he's also a pretty heavy warez downloader, so it'll
> > probably work fine for anyone normal too.
> > --
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