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And then came the switch from ISDN to DSL and the latency got worse again.


I remember that back in the xDSL days we had never-ending discussions about interleaving vs fast-path. If you could enable fast-path, you could reduce your latency in half, but not all ISP supported it and your connection would be more sensitive to noise and errors, so it was not always worth it.




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