January 31, 2013
Consumer Broadband Sucks
Frustrated with laggy internet? Here's a firsthand look at why consumer broadband—especially Time Warner—fails where FiOS excels.
I’ve been off Verizon FiOS for exactly an hour and I already miss it. I would have never guessed that I would consider a 30ms hop to the GPON as good speed, but after seeing what Time Warner Cable is doing anything would be better. I’m going to have to climb on the roof later and figure out what I have line of sight to for a P2P RF link.
Maxs-Home-iMac:~ mclark$ mtr -r www.google.com HOST: Maxs-Home-iMac.local Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- 192.168.0.1 0.0% 10 1.3 46.9 1.2 418.6 130.9 2.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.|-- ge2-25.lsaicaev-cer05.soc 10.0% 10 413.4 1171. 10.2 2954. 1087.0 4.|-- te0-8-0-3.lsaicaev-ccr01. 10.0% 10 321.6 1084. 23.1 2828. 1061.8 5.|-- agg26.lsanca4-cr01.socal. 10.0% 10 229.6 994.4 11.5 2704. 1041.1 6.|-- ae-5-0.cr0.lax00.tbone.rr 10.0% 10 137.7 904.1 10.5 2580. 1021.1 7.|-- 66.109.9.24 10.0% 10 49.8 917.1 10.3 2451. 944.9 8.|-- 72.14.197.157 10.0% 10 214.7 902.6 70.8 2331. 881.3 9.|-- 216.239.46.40 14.3% 7 60.6 646.5 11.1 2199. 850.7 10.|-- 216.239.43.148 14.3% 7 11.6 594.6 11.6 2075. 806.5 11.|-- lax04s09-in-f20.1e100.net 14.3% 7 18.2 674.4 18.2 1948. 694.5