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From: Antoin O Lachtnain <antoin@eire.com>
Subject: Re: [IIU] Eircom aDSL Nat'ing
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:17:46 +0100

At 17:10 22/08/2002 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > apologies for the possible silly question (i don't think it is, but),
> > but is Eircom's aDSL service NAT'ed?
>
>No - you get unfiltered access with a real (but dynamic) IP address.
>
> > and what implications would that have for VoIP? I know there are
> > difficulties with VoIP or connecting to clients connected to a NAT'ed
> > network from the internet wild (i.e. machines with static, real IPs)
>
>You will probably suffer from the high latency of DLS lines.  Typically,
>you're talking about 50ms RTT to the local bas, which is pretty high.
>If your voip application can handle this, then you're ok.
>
>Nick

what's the deal with all this latency? it's not like that in other places 
where I've used dsl. i read some story about it being done that way to 
allow greater distances to be covered or something like that. however, my 
knowledge of physics is really only newtonian, and I don't understand how 
worsening latency could possibly improve the reliability of a 2000 foot 
long piece of copper. Perhaps it has something to do with stretching the 
time-space continuum? can someone explain this in words of five syllables 
or less?

a.



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