Local Ping speeds ...

James: but then doesn't the cable have to go from CT back past JHB to get to USA/UK ?

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it is pronounced crunt road in english :)

try ping 165.165.160.1 and 165.165.240.1 (BRAS)
 
Why would traffic have to JHB to go to UK/US the base station is at Melkbosstrand in the cape, therefor all traffic from Jhb gets routed via the cape not the other way around.

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I'm just saying , straight line distance ... UK & US are north of JHB not south .. so it would have made sense to rout traffic from CT to JHB and not the other way around ...

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As the crow flies it would make sense, but SAT 3 curves around africa and carries on past SA. That is why traffic gets routed from jhb to cpt. I have it worse though, durban trafic get routed via jhb so my jump to internation is bigger than most plus i am inland so it goes to Dbn then to jhb then to cpt but it does not make much difference, I often have better pings than others and i don't need really high int latency. I would love it to be as low as 100 but if i can't have that then what i do have is perfect for me. the only reason i would like it low is for my gaming.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by loosecannon</i>
<br />it is pronounced crunt road in english :)

try ping 165.165.160.1 and 165.165.240.1 (BRAS)
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hahahahahaha! /me nods in agreement [:D]

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I'm in the Centurion area and ping times to ftp.saix.net are longer than to IS's JHB servers. At least it shows that Telkom's routing works properly (i.e. shortest path).

[tva@cube tva]$ ping ftp.saix.net -c 5
PING ftp.saix.net (196.25.240.137) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp.saix.net (196.25.240.137): icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=39.3 ms
64 bytes from ftp.saix.net (196.25.240.137): icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=38.1 ms
64 bytes from ftp.saix.net (196.25.240.137): icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=38.7 ms
64 bytes from ftp.saix.net (196.25.240.137): icmp_seq=4 ttl=251 time=39.8 ms
64 bytes from ftp.saix.net (196.25.240.137): icmp_seq=5 ttl=251 time=38.4 ms

and

[tva@cube tva]$ ping is.co.za -c 5
PING is.co.za (196.4.160.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from apollo.is.co.za (196.4.160.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=250 time=21.8 ms
64 bytes from apollo.is.co.za (196.4.160.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=250 time=19.3 ms
64 bytes from apollo.is.co.za (196.4.160.2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=250 time=18.4 ms
64 bytes from apollo.is.co.za (196.4.160.2): icmp_seq=4 ttl=250 time=19.2 ms
64 bytes from apollo.is.co.za (196.4.160.2): icmp_seq=5 ttl=250 time=20.0 ms

The IS server is logically much closer to me than SAIX's ftp server (which sits in CT).

--deckert
 
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