Splitting 4/10mbit line & impact on ping

[Tweak]

Hello guys, I was wondering about something

Say my adsl is syncing at 4mbit and i were to break up the line to multiple computers using special routing hardware, will my ping be as good as if I had my own 1mbit connection, as when I had to share it with 3 other people each having 512/1mbit.

Regards,
Tweak

 

[|tera|]

I doubt it. Purely because ADSL is not an exact service, it's best effort. You will most probably have 4 really slow performing 1mb links.

 

[Mr.Jax]

The short answer: no. It will be worse.

If the other 3 only download, the extra latency you "get" wont be as much (around 10 milliseconds). If they upload, say bye bye latency and add some 80-90 ms (assuming you're splitting up the 512 into 4 too)

Simple maths to work it out. If you want I'll show you how I got to those numbers...
(the ADSL "pipe" is like a queue...with others downloading/uploading you'll have to "wait your turn" which adds to your effective latency)

 

[Pada]

No, you won't be able to split the line exactly into 4 or even 3x 1Mbps connections without compromising the latency, because you don't have control over the incoming packets.
You can control the outgoing packets, but that kind of limiting is very difficult.

If you were able to install hardware on the other end, then something like this would be possible. Then again, you can go for something like Line Bonding, which combines multiple ADSL lines, instead of splitting 1

 

[Tweak]

Ok its making more sense to me now! Thank you fellas