Re: Twitter.com is very slow on myT

From: Sun <s4ndeep1203_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:21:23 +0400

Hi Logan,


> What's killing your user experience to twitter is the bad latency.


Yes. This is what i reported to Mauritius Telecom.

Unfortunately I have not received any reply yet. Maybe they're still
celebrating new year. While i still pay around Rs800 for a 512kbps internet
connection.

Thanks and Regards,

*RAMGOLAM Sandeep*

*Front-end Developer - Designer - Web Enthusiast - Gamer**Website :*
barfii.net <http://www.barfii.net>

On 2 January 2016 at 21:24, Loganaden Velvindron <logan_at_afrinic.net> wrote:

> Hi Sun,
>
> 400ms latency is bad. The bandwidth requirement should not be much for a
> typical twitter session. e.g, even a 256Kb/s connection would be
> acceptable according to me.
>
> What's killing your user experience to twitter is the bad latency. I
> think that ISPs are slowly coming to terms with this reality. The
> regulatory bodies should enforce a policy upon the ISPs so that they
> comply with a latency threshold.
>
> If a policy is enforced, then the ISPs would have to re-engineer their
> infrastructure to meet those criteria. I have yet to see a policy from
> ICTA concerning latency. I heard about a policy for "QOS".
> (https://www.icta.mu/it/qos.htm). However, ICTA website has little
> information. Like I said many times previously, latency is as important
> as bandwidth, and with the rise of VOIP/online gaming/streaming, this
> becomes even more critical.
>
> That's my current latency:
>
> ping www.twitter.com
> PING twitter.com (199.16.156.38): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 199.16.156.38: icmp_seq=0 ttl=240 time=313.494 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.16.156.38: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=313.369 ms
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