One of our own in the Guardian.

Sun Jul 14 09:12:26 UTC 2013

You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution
of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised
about bad net access? I would question the wisdom of planning a tech
conference there, but not the facility itself.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:16 AM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Mark Seiden <mis at seiden.com> wrote:
>> and here i am in the icann-selected hotel for the icann conference, and they gave us a total of 500MB of metered usage.
>
> Trust me, the 500MB limit (per day, and resettable if you go down to the front desk and request more) is the least of your worries:
>
> % ping trantor.virtualized.org
> ....
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 179
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 180
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 181
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=104 ttl=40 time=78594.936 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=119037.553 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103268.363 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103690.981 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120196.719 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120333.246 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=85 ttl=40 time=99395.502 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=105 ttl=40 time=79406.728 ms
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 186
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=93 ttl=40 time=94822.040 ms
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 188
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 189
> ...
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
>