[LUAU] Anyone got suggestions on low latency to the mainland ISP's

[Richard Zheng]

On the backbone side, it is pretty much the same.  Most ISPs has enough
upstream capacities to a few big carriers who have links to the mainland.
 The big difference is the last mile.  Road runner is less consistent since
it is shared with your neighbor.  DSL latency is high, around 30ms to the
DSLAM, unless you call HT and have them change the default settings (Good
luck!).

Servpac, a local CLEC, has their own DSLAM covering lots of area on Oahu.
 Their EFM product boasts symmetrical bandwidth at around $300-400 for 10M
download and 10M upload.  The latency is about 2-3ms to the backbone
router.  They don't normally sell to residential.  However if your friend
is a really serious game, the low latency and big upload pipe might be
something interesting.

Disclaimer: I work for Servpac.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Brian Chee <chee at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> I just got a question from a friend that's a super avid xbox gamer and is
> trying to find an ISP that has spent a bit of time optimizing their network
> paths to reduce hops and thusly latency to the mainland.
>
> I vaguely remember that Tony Q. and the folks at LavaNET used to do this,
> but is that gone now that the lavanet folks are gone? Is there any ISP's
> left that actually optimize their networks? UH can get to SF within 50ms,
> does anyone get those kinds of numbers on an ISP?
>
> /brian chee
>
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