----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Graydon" <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk>
> Anecdotally, I had an interview years ago for a small-ish futures > trading company based in London. The interviewer had to pause the > interview part way through whilst he investigated a 10ms latency spike > that the traders were noticing on a short point-to-point fiber link to > the London Stock Exchange. He commented that the traders were far > better at 'feeling' when an connection was showing even a trace of lag > compared to normal than anything he'd set up by way of monitoring (not > sure how good his monitoring was, though.) This was my experience in a callcenter as well; network type problem reports always came in from the floor managers before Nagios came forth with an opinion. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274