[Gllug] Bank Holiday Monday type question

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 30 May, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 

> >  3  thus2-hg3.ealing.broadband.bt.net (217.32.137.202) 36 bytes to 172.16.1.8  2250 
> ms  2510 ms  2630 ms  2710 ms  2500 ms
> 
> Wow, that is terrible performance for the first hop - that's double
> the time I see when I ping someone flying with Lufthansa, using 
> their in-flight broadband service!! Incidentally, I'm really amazed at 
> the operation of in-flight boardband - guys I work with have actually
> held VOIP conversations with one party in Munich and the other mid
> atlantic - no noticable dropout & only a 1 sec delay, which is not
> at all bad IMHO.

   For those calculating speed relative to the speed of light, I am about a
mile from my local exchange, followed by about 2 miles to Ealing and about 3
miles back to Demon, which is about 10 minutes walk from here.


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Chris Bell

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