[clug] OT: personal recommendations for TPG ISP

[dave]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 22:44 +1100, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:06 +1100, dave wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 00:01 +1100, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote:
> > > I'm thinking of getting off TransACT and going for TPG's 1.5M/256k
> > > service, and I'm after first hand evidence of their quality.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've had this plan for about 4 months now and haven't had any issues.
> 
> Do you regularly get your full 1.5M?

Most of the downloading I do is from big local mirrors, eg.
mirror.aarnet.edu.au or mirror.pacific.net.au and from these sites, yes
I get a reliable 160KB/s. International content is less consistent, but
I can usually still get 160KB/s from large mirrors (eg.
archive.ubuntu.com and sourceforge mirrors).

>   Do you get reasonable ping times?

Never tested it before now, international pings dont seem great, but I
cant say I've ever noticed latency during typical web-surfing.

dave at timmy:~ $ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.akadns.net (216.239.57.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.google.com (216.239.57.103): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245
time=207 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (216.239.57.103): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245
time=199 ms
64 bytes from www.google.com (216.239.57.103): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245
time=199 ms

dave at timmy:~ $ ping www.yahoo.com
PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.109.118.71) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from p8.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.71): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53
time=280 ms
64 bytes from p8.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.71): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53
time=278 ms
64 bytes from p8.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.71): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53
time=296 ms

dave at timmy:~ $ ping mirror.aarnet.edu.au
PING mirror.aarnet.edu.au (192.42.62.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (192.42.62.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=247
time=60.6 ms
64 bytes from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (192.42.62.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=247
time=55.6 ms
64 bytes from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (192.42.62.2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=247
time=52.8 ms

dave at timmy:~ $ ping mirror.pacific.net.au
PING madheifer.pacific.net.au (61.8.0.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from madheifer.pacific.net.au (61.8.0.17): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57
time=64.5 ms
64 bytes from madheifer.pacific.net.au (61.8.0.17): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57
time=62.1 ms
64 bytes from madheifer.pacific.net.au (61.8.0.17): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57
time=63.7 ms

dave at timmy:~ $ ping ftp.au.debian.org
PING ftp.planetmirror.com (203.16.234.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from karl.planetmirror.com (203.16.234.20): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56
time=52.2 ms
64 bytes from karl.planetmirror.com (203.16.234.20): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56
time=53.2 ms
64 bytes from karl.planetmirror.com (203.16.234.20): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56
time=55.5 ms

> Any unreasonable outages?  How often does your IP get changed?

No outages since I joined.
No idea about IP changes. The connection never seems to go down, so I
guess they would persist for a long time (unless they expire
mid-connection??) I have a typical broadband router thingo, so I
wouldn't notice reconnections and ext. IP changes etc. (Nor can I really
log such things, sorry)

Dave