Re: cable modem connection slower than dial up

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Rodrigo Paes <rpaes@pobox.com> writes:
> "schmity" <schmity@nctv.com> wrote:
>> brent@Linuxbox:~$ ping www.google.com
>> PING www.l.google.com (216.239.37.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=78.5 ms
>> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=61.2 ms
>
> that's actually pretty good time... check out min :)
>
> PING www.l.google.com (216.239.37.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=715 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=709 ms

I was shocked to see:

PING www.l.google.com (66.249.89.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.249.89.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=15.3 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.89.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=16.6 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.89.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=16.7 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.89.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=16.5 ms
...

Man the internet is faster than I remember...

Google, or somebody, is apparently doing something clever, because
according to traceroute[*], not only is there an unsually low number of
hops to the above google machine ("only" 11), but it's located in Japan
(where I am), avoiding the big trans-pacific delay (~100ms, generally)
that I get with most U.S. sites.

[*] Actually "mtr -t", a very nice traceroute replacement.

-Miles

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