Re: Secret moderation society revealed!
Mike Dimmick (dimmicmj@aston.ac.uk)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 16:22:15 +0000
>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.
I'm not exactly sure how many hops away I am (no copy of traceroute
here!) but the ping time from congo.aston.ac.uk (the host I'm currently
sitting at) to rtfm.mit.edu is currently anywhere from 145 to 292 ms.
The real killer though is the 33% packet loss.
Unfortunately, although I think I fulfil all the other criteria for
moderator status, I simply don't have the time.
--
Mike Dimmick <dimmicmj@aston.ac.uk> http://www.aston.ac.uk/~dimmicmj/
Chairman, Aston Orienteering Klub http://www.aston.ac.uk/~dimmicmj/aok/
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