Satellite latency
David R Huberman
huberman at gblx.net
Wed Feb 27 12:13:13 UTC 2002
> DirecPC (Hughes) now has a business grade service called
> DirecWay. Haven't tried it. One would expect it
> would be better than the ones intended for residential only.
> It claims to go to 1.5M down like Tachyon.
I use Direcway presently as my primary link. I refer to it as, "Dialup
Plus!" As a previous poster noted, ssh sessions are painful. I now resort
to typing e-mails out in a local text editor and cutting and pasting them
into my ssh window.
Here's a local traceroute performed just now at 7am on a Wednesday to a
random service like Google. Performance gets significantly poorer during
peak business hours. High d/l rates are only achievable late at night it
seems.
1 797 ms 810 ms 810 ms 172.23.4.17
2 742 ms 686 ms 742 ms 172.23.4.17
3 796 ms 755 ms 742 ms 172.23.128.2
4 920 ms 755 ms 742 ms 192.168.11.251
5 741 ms 755 ms 687 ms 63.215.128.137]
6 742 ms 741 ms 687 ms [64.159.18.6]
7 755 ms 741 ms 742 ms 209.249.0.173
8 796 ms 742 ms 755 ms [209.249.0.213]
9 742 ms 755 ms 741 ms [208.185.0.137]
10 783 ms 810 ms 824 ms [216.200.127.26]
11 810 ms 879 ms 810 ms [208.184.233.50]
12 810 ms 811 ms 810 ms [208.185.75.198]
13 742 ms 810 ms 810 ms [216.239.47.18]
14 811 ms 810 ms 810 ms [216.239.47.162]
15 783 ms 796 ms 824 ms www.google.com [216.239.35.101]
/david
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