[ntp:questions] Garmin 18 LVC: whether to fudge
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Wed Feb 11 19:37:22 UTC 2009
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> said:
>> My bet would be that there is an asymmetry in your ADSL link! If I'm
>> not mistaken, the "A" in ADSL stands for asymmetric!
>
> The asymmetry in ADSL is in bandwidth, not path or latency. More
> frequency space is used for downstream (ISP->end user) communication
> than for upstream, but both travel the same path.
>
> There may be asymmetric routing going on (very often the case when you
> talk to a host across the Internet, especially if either your ISP or the
> remote host's ISP are multihomed), but it is highly unlikely it is
> happening between the end user and his own ISP.
>
The difference in bandwidth would mean that a packet of N bytes would
take more time in one direction than the other! I don't know if that
would be sufficient to account for the observed behavior but I can't
think of another explanation.
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