[plug] [OT] iiNet, ADSL, & Westnet

[Craig Ringer]

Richard Henry wrote:

> Also, I'm a big kid that never grew up properly so I game a bit online.
> Arachnet customers are continually cursing the consistency at which
> their pings jump up to around 250ms for days at a time, while the rest
> of us are at 40ms.  That being said, its usually only gamers that even
> notice the difference between a 30ms and 250ms response from a server
> so...

Uggh. I'd disagree with that, as a heavy user of interactive remote 
services like ssh and sometimes remote X. IMAP is also affected 
considerably by latency, at least in my experience.

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Craig Ringer