The jitter was mostly over congestion and the limitation of DOCSIS back then.
A couple of friends of mine started Barrysworld which hosted servers and they also had their own POP to dial in to. Before then we had a server hidden away at work on dark fibre which wasn't really utilised properly by the company at the time which we just used among ourselves while 'testing' it
Think my ping there averaged about 6 while at work
