It could just be the phone lines. If the lines going into one of the
pm2e's are better than the others, their send/recieve rates will be
higher, thus their pings lower.
--Mike
> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 13:07:53 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ian McLaughlin <ian@okjunc.junction.net>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Ping time differences
>
> I have a small but vocal group of users that spend much of their time
> playing multiplayer games over the net. They are saying that I have
> different ping times on my Portmasters. My setup is as follows:
>
> vernon-pm1 PM2E-30 with 30 US Robotics Courier modems
> vernon-pm2 PM2E-30 with 30 US Robotics Courier modems
> vernon-pm3 PM2E-10 with 10 US Robotics Courier modems
> vernon-pm4 PM3-2T with one ISDN PRI (23 lines)
>
> Now, we all know about the v.42 dictionary size problem that is giving
> slower ping times on the PM3 so we won't worry about that for now (Is
> there a fix yet, Livingston?) But, these users are saying they get much
> better ping times out of vernon-pm3 than vernon-pm1 or vernon-pm2. The
> ComOS is the same in all three machines (3.3.3). They are on the same
> ethernet segment, on the same class C. I hope that I'm not experiencing
> latency because of the load on a PM2E with 30 modems as compared to one
> with 10 modems. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
>
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