[PLUG-TALK] ADSL Service vs. Transfer Speeds

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Sep 25 16:43:58 UTC 2009


On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, drew wymore wrote:

> At 768k you're looking at a theoretical max of 96k downstream on download
> tests etc. On 160k up you're looking at 20k up. The problem is that in the
> switches that are owned by Verizon (that speed package looks like VZN)
> they'll set your peak rate at 768 and your sustained rate to about half of
> that, so 384k, this on the transport before it ever reaches
> SpiritOne/Aracnet so they really have no control over it. So during high
> traffic hours on the telco network side your traffic is going to be tagged
> at a lower priority to that of say a T1 customer who runs over the same
> switches. That is probably why you average 77k down which is faster than
> your sustained rate but below your peak rate which seems about right. Hope
> some of that information may be useful.

Drew,

   Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Rich

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