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R Taylor wrote:
>
> Recently  mreid published the results of a ping test of internet service
> providers which is of interest to consumers.  It is located at
>
> http://rpc-747.on.rogers.wave.ca/ottisp/index.html

Please note that this is also mirrored now at
http://home.on.rogers.wave.ca/mreid/ottisp/index.html . My cable modem
has been acting up a bit lately, so this URL may be more reliable.


> Even though I am not technically capable of appreciating all of the
> nuances, I found the results to be most enlightening, as I had recently
 ...
> better than some smaller providers.  However, if I interpret the results
> of the ping test correctly Sympatico's transmission speed is about half
> the rate of I-Star. As I understand it the results are not fully
> comparable because of technical differences, but this information would
> have enabled me to make a more rational choice.


Unfortunately, performance testing can be quite complicated. The results
shown favor any ISP on the iStar/MCI or UUNet networks and I've tried to
include sufficient notice of this on my pages. I want to make that clear.

iStar is on iStar and Sympatico is on the Bell/CANET network. This tends
to make Sympatico look worse than iStar. Sympatico doesn't allow their web
servers to respond to pings. That tends to make Symapatico look better
again as I'm pinging their last pingable router. Routers often treat pings
as low priority however...

Boardwatch magazine and Keynote systems did network backbone Web server
testing recently in a much better distributed test. They found at that
time that the Bell network was the slowest of 29 or so major backbones.
iStar fared much better.

As for network backbones with major connections in Canada, the best
performer on these tests was UUNet. Comments from many people support
this view. Of course, there are some ISPs on UUNet that have low
performance. Draw your own conclusions but keep in mind that Internet
capacities are being upgraded every day... Results today and tomorrow
could be quite different.

I'm glad to see that Sympatico offers support in the sympatico.support
newsgroup. I would imagine this is a private newsgroup however as I can't
find it among the 30,000 groups that Rogers Wave carries, nor on Dejanews.

Regards,
Mike.

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