Checking internet connection without a winbox

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 18:23, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Thanks, Roger. I so did, and got an interesting result. You can see
> that as I work my way out, the ping time gets slowly longer, but on
> the last one, it jumps from ~13 ms to ~88 ms. Does that seem unusual,
> or is because it's going across a large way? I did ping a .co.il (my
> country's domain extension) address, but that does not necessarily
> mean that the site is hosted here.

Under the best conditions you can't do better than about one ms
per 185 miles.  Long story here:
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

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  Les Mikesell
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