Re: Secret moderation society revealed!
Warren Young (tangent@cyberport.com)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 08:36:41 -0700
At 02:17 PM 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>under about 200 ms round-trip is fine. People in the Boston area can
>
>> Or even relax the requirements. Requiring telnet access within a hop or
>> two of MIT is pretty restrictive. Perhaps there are other technologies
>
>I'm ~16 hops from mit.edu, with a round-trip time (ping -s) of
>30-100 ms, which is entirely sufficient.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but just getting to my
ISP costs about 150ms, and I hit 200ms before I get to Houston.
(I'm located in New Mexico. I just did a traceroute to mit.edu,
and the longest delay was 350ms, shortest was 221ms.) Maybe your
low latency is due to being connected through a frame relay or
ISDN line? We modem folk don't have that luxury.
= Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent