presented the traffic congestion periods of the
Internet in terms of the packet delay time (msec) instead of
the bit per second (bps). To do this, a special ping program
by using the perl programming for testing is built for
observing the internet traffic of three internet operators:
TOT, 3BB, and TRUE. They are big network operators in
Thailand. The performance comparison of three operators
was proposed. Ping packets with 100 bytes using the special
program were sent continuously from three Ubuntu Linux
computers located in Nonthaburi province to the same
domestic web server (203.151.206.73) via three Internet
operators for one week. From experimental result, it is
found that the traffic congestion of three Internet providers
is opposite in some periods. Therefore, Intelligent Traffic
Engineering (TE) e.g., the load balancer can take advantage
from these different traffic characteristics in order to avoid
the congestion path.