I've been on Uverse since early this spring, and I've seen a huge improvement in up/downstream speeds. Unfortunately this seemed to come at the cost of significantly higher latency. Growing more and more frustrated lately with having unreasonably high ping to midwest servers, I did a bit of googling to find that the issue is due to Uverse's interleaved network. This explains the additional 30-40ms I get on average, compared to when I was on basic DSL.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3645971152.png
I ping 40ms to a server not 10 miles away.
Usually get ~70ms to Chicago servers and I'm lucky to drop under 110 on west coast ones.
Unfortunately I'm not the one paying for the service so I have no say in switching providers again. How can I minimize this effect, or am I just boned?
I've been on Uverse since early this spring, and I've seen a huge improvement in up/downstream speeds. Unfortunately this seemed to come at the cost of significantly higher latency. Growing more and more frustrated lately with having unreasonably high ping to midwest servers, I did a bit of googling to find that the issue is due to Uverse's interleaved network. This explains the additional 30-40ms I get on average, compared to when I was on basic DSL.
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3645971152.png[/img]
I ping 40ms to a server not 10 miles away.
Usually get ~70ms to Chicago servers and I'm lucky to drop under 110 on west coast ones.
Unfortunately I'm not the one paying for the service so I have no say in switching providers again. How can I minimize this effect, or am I just boned?
i was gonna make a post about this cause I had a similar issue recently. i'm stuck on verizon dsl and the only other option in my area is comcast and im not switching to them because fuck them. anyway I recently had a month long thing where my speed was constantly fluctuating and for reasons I couldn't figure out. so upon doing enough reading I found that theres a thing called FastPath that you can have activated on your line as an alternative to interleaving (explanation here) Basically it will decrease your ping usually by about 20ms. I've been using DSL for years and had no idea this existed and I had it activated on my line pretty easily once I got a hold of the right person
unfortunately fastpath isn't available on uverse because its VDSL, so yea your boned
i was gonna make a post about this cause I had a similar issue recently. i'm stuck on verizon dsl and the only other option in my area is comcast and im not switching to them because fuck them. anyway I recently had a month long thing where my speed was constantly fluctuating and for reasons I couldn't figure out. so upon doing enough reading I found that theres a thing called FastPath that you can have activated on your line as an alternative to interleaving ([url=http://www.dslreports.com/faq/2182]explanation here[/url]) Basically it will decrease your ping usually by about 20ms. I've been using DSL for years and had no idea this existed and I had it activated on my line pretty easily once I got a hold of the right person
unfortunately fastpath isn't available on uverse because its VDSL, so yea your boned