Now getting 1.23KBps on my 256k - AGAIN!!!

[chuckl]

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Greedyf, reminds e that some years ago, carrier pigeons were used for data transfer according to the rfc spec on such transport mechanisms. Must look it up in the cobwebbed mem archives!
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[chuckl]

offtopic
thought so:

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/vegard_bilder/

At least the bits they drop don't cause a network slowdown, probably a speedup

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[donn]

It seems that you get packet loss connecting to www.sentech.co.za from anywhere! Check this out! My traceroute from work:

<font size="1">Tracing route to www.sentech.co.za [66.18.65.115]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms &lt;10 ms &lt;10 ms
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
3 214 ms 138 ms 141 ms
4 72 ms 195 ms 109 ms Int-wav1.datapro.co.za [196.41.30.1]
5 161 ms 110 ms 79 ms Jinx1-gw.datapro.co.za [196.41.9.10]
6 3211 ms * * 168.209.87.45
7 109 ms 219 ms 195 ms 196.26.0.76
8 135 ms 196 ms 234 ms isl.nmszone.is.co.za [196.26.0.3]
9 172 ms 138 ms 195 ms 168.209.18.62
10 215 ms 207 ms 149 ms gige-0-0-21.rtr-core4-stp.infosat.net [66.18.65.222]
11 202 ms 245 ms 197 ms pf-hosting1b-stp.infosat.net [66.18.67.203]
12 141 ms 199 ms 147 ms www.sentech.co.za [66.18.65.115]

Trace complete.</font id="size1">

Then the ping stats after 5 minutes or so
Ping statistics for 66.18.65.115:
Packets: Sent = 363, Received = 345, Lost = 18 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 424ms, Average = 86ms

Yesterday I used MW to ping www.sentech.co.za for half an hour and got between 10% and 14% packet loss. <b>Their whole network is really broken</b>

Donn Edwards
http://privacy.4mg.com