Maximum Latency for ISPs?

fluor2 asks: "My ISP is providing me 8mbit ADSL, and my speed is in fact 8mbit (downstream). However, we all know that there is no relation between transfer rate and latency, eg, a high transfer rate and high latency will kill your FPS games. A packet that travels through the sky and up to a satellite is bound to give high latency. Using pathping, I discovered that my ISP provides me with a latency of 22ms before my sent packets are sent out of my ISP's backbone (6 hops). I have a friend that also tried the same, and he got only 10ms before he was out of his ISP's network. I know 22ms is decent, but I still think that it's far too high if one uses IP-phones and similar. What kind of latency can we accept for a normal 8mbit ADSL connection, and isn't it about time that we get more focus on this subject?"

Comments

That's a major non sequitur!

[leonbrooks]

But under a less-restrictive license that isn't going to let me make profit over my OWN work at a later date.

Er, what in the BSD licence prevents you from profiting from your own code later?

What in the GPL prevents you from profiting from your own code later? Just the other contributors. You can only profit from your own pieces of code, which in a big project are going to be pretty close to useless by themselves. And that's totally fair.

I also reckon that it's totally fair, fine and dandy if you choose to release your own code under a licence which is open to abuse. It's your code, and I refuse to ping you for throwing it to the wolves. Now please bite your tongue (fingers?) about what I do with my code.