Contention - Who do you contend with?

We are a business located on a business park. Our 1MB Star.net connection is
suffering pings of nearly a second to UK sites. Our business 20:1 contention
ratio may be the problem - are we likely to share with other businesses on the
park, whose internet use may be similar to ours (2Gb/day)?

Our previous kilostream link (128kb/s) was much quicker but much more expensive.

Would we be better binding some of our ISDN lines? We have 12, six of which are
required for video conferencing.

JPG

"JPG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We are a business located on a business park. Our 1MB Star.net connection
> is
> suffering pings of nearly a second to UK sites. Our business 20:1
> contention
> ratio may be the problem - are we likely to share with other businesses on
> the
> park, whose internet use may be similar to ours (2Gb/day)?
>
> Our previous kilostream link (128kb/s) was much quicker but much more
> expensive.
>
> Would we be better binding some of our ISDN lines? We have 12, six of
> which are
> required for video conferencing.
>
> JPG
The leased-line would be quicker as it is a 1:1 link to your ISP (and it was
128kb/s up, 128kb/s down) so you can't compaire this line to an ADSL line.
Regarding the ISDN, you could bind the other 6 lines, but depending on how
your telco bills you for the call charges, this solution may be VERY
expensive.
The best solution would be a 1:1 contention ADSL link (these come at a
premium but are far cheaper than a leased-line), or if you want the benefit
of the symetrical dfata link, go for a 10:1 (1:1 if finances permit) SDSL

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:44:33 +0100, JPG <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Our 1MB Star.net connection is
>suffering pings of nearly a second to UK sites.

check the exchange at http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/
specifically the VP capacity.

does the throughput suffer as well as the ping time ?
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp

tracert www.bbc.co.uk or similar might be illustrative

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms *.*.demon.co.uk [10.0.0.2]
2 34 ms 28 ms 27 ms thus6-hg2.kingston.broadband.bt.net
[217.41.134.
73]
3 31 ms 28 ms 27 ms 217.41.134.1
4 34 ms 29 ms 27 ms 217.41.134.106
5 33 ms 26 ms 29 ms
park-inside-1-g3-0-0-s193.router.demon.net [194.159.246.66]
6 38 ms 28 ms 29 ms tele-border-2-g1-0-2.router.demon.net
[194.70.98.198]
7 40 ms 28 ms 29 ms demon-te4-3-607.prt0.rbsov.bbc.co.uk
[195.11.50.66]
8 26 ms 27 ms 28 ms 212.58.238.149
9 27 ms 27 ms 29 ms www41.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.86]

Trace complete.

Phil
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