2012-09-05

Back to reality

After more than a week of latencies that rarely dropped below 80ms and usually ran to well over a second I am finally home and latencies you can measure in microseconds.

I wonder if all of Ρόδος island is like that - perhaps some odd backhaul. No idea how to find out.


Someone said follow the cable? This was taken on the road between Rhodes and Lindos.


4 comments:

  1. Your screenshot has you using the old internet, not the new sparkly ipv6! I'm shocked :)

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    1. Ah, because ping is stupid and is a separate command for IPv6. Personally I would have made ping pick 6 or 4, and had a separate ping -4 and ping -6 for the specific options.

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