[PLUG] VoIP on DSL?

[Evan Heidtmann]

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Show me a DSL line with less than a quarter second ping to the telco.

My connection: DSLNortwest.net (through Qwest), 256/256:

$ ping dslnorthwest.net
PING dslnorthwest.net (207.149.237.198) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from (207.149.237.198): icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=49.2 ms
64 bytes from (207.149.237.198): icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=49.3 ms
64 bytes from (207.149.237.198): icmp_seq=3 ttl=253 time=49.0 ms

$ ping qwest.net
PING qwest.net (204.147.80.81) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from (204.147.80.81): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=110 ms
64 bytes from (204.147.80.81): icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=112 ms
64 bytes from (204.147.80.81): icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=111 ms

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (216.239.57.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=70.7 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=69.7 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=68.4 ms