Low Bandwidth

[zappaDPJ]

Well to be fair it does look from the other latency thread that it might actually be a different issue... but let's blame BT anyway 

[Rik]

 

Always a good plan.

[esh]

I had a 6M DSL Verizon line while in Boston. For a period of two weeks I was limited to some measly bandwidth because of a 60% (!) packet loss behaviour (hardly anything would resolve either, obviously), resulting in a frankly unbelievable 110,000 ms ping to some games. They blamed it on our hardware for a week, then eventually came around, poked things, and said it was fine. After really insisting that 60% packet loss was not normal they went away again (curiously the loss only seemed to be upstream). Another week later it was mysteriously all fixed. I wonder if that was an exchange software issue also.

[zappaDPJ]

There seem to be so many variables involved it's hard to say but it's certainly a possibility I guess. High packet loss seems to go hand in hand with exchange congestion which ultimately gives you ridiculously high pings especially when measured over time.