From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 19 9:52:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.fore.com (mailgate.fore.com [169.144.68.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7216415326 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhasak@fore.com) Received: from mailman.fore.com (mailman.fore.com [169.144.2.12]) by mailgate.fore.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA14826; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:52:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhasak-pc (dhcp129-20.fore.com [169.144.129.20]) by mailman.fore.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA12636; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:52:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Damian Hasak" To: "Joe Abley" , "David Wolfskill" Cc: , Subject: RE: net speed Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:52:16 -0500 Message-ID: <003c01bf62a5$ec375b80$148190a9@dhasak-pc.fore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <20000119195314.A4167@patho.gen.nz> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hmm but i would think jitter is more related to timing on a CBR connection > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe Abley > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 1:53 AM > To: David Wolfskill > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; xiyuan@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: net speed > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:17:24PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > > First, I would contend that "speed" (as such) is not a very meaningful > > term with respect to networks. Indeed, your query relates to that lack > > of meaningfulness, as the text below should show. > > > > There are a couple of different (but related) ways to refer to how fast > > data gets from its source to its destination. The relevant terms are > > "latency" and "bandwidth". Absent a fair amount of context, determining > > which is meant can be challenging. > > And "jitter" and "loss". > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message