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Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency?

Posted by timothy on from the insert-rant-about-3g-dongle-speeds dept.

holmedog writes "A simple question with a lot of answers (I hope). I recently had issues with my DSL broadband at home, and after a month of no resolution, I was told 300ms latency (to their test servers) was the acceptable range for Centurylink 10.0Mbps. This got a shocked reaction out of me to say the least. I would think anything over 125ms to be in the unacceptable range. So, I have come to you to ask: What do you consider to be acceptable broadband latency and why?"

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  1. Re:Latency by holmedog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hi! Thanks for the reply. To put some perspective - I've been troubleshooting this particular issue for ~1.5 months and have done the traceroute to make sure it is their issue and not mine. The 3rd hop hits one of their centers in a major city near me and that is the turning point.

    I didn't include this in the original story as I figured it was far to specific to my case.