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From: Chris Brenton <cbrenton@chrisbrenton.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Pings phenomen :)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:29:13 -0400
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To: Marcin Sura <slacklist@op.pl>
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On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:16, Marcin Sura wrote:
>
>   I have 512/128 adsl. I wonder why, when I download files at full
>   speed, pings to site X are about 2000ms. But when I upload files at
>   full speed, pings to X are about 3000 to 5000ms. Can someone explain
>   this to me from tcp/ip point of view? ;)

512 is download speed
128 is upload speed

When you are uploading a file you are sucking up bandwidth on the
smallest portion of your link. This means greater congestion than when
doing a download, so the latency on your echo-request packets is higher.

HTH,
Chris