RE: QoS for PPPoE / ADSL

Guess you live in a place where the copper wasn't carrying phone calls during the first Roosevelt Administration ;), and you don't have Verizon

LOL

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Shaw [mailto:dale.shaw_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:29 AM
To: Joseph L. Brunner
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: QoS for PPPoE / ADSL

Hi,

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com> wrote:
> You're better off going with conservative numbers and "ripping your self off"
> Your not really going to get layer 1 sync up speeds at layer 3 mate...
> They can only make money handing your traffic off to over subscribed peering points...
> Next time, you want unicast me, I'll run an iperf with you on a 1Gbps att link that is not really used...
> You'll probably be surprised how your dsl traffic flies

Thanks for the assumption-based comments, Joe ;-)

Actually, accounting for ATM cell tax and PPPoE overhead, I get
goodput aligned pretty closely with the up/down sync speeds as
reported by my modem.

Maybe you should change ISPs and/or move closer to your DSLAM.

cheers,
Dale

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Received on Mon May 11 2009 - 05:03:16 ART