Touche, ya got me. :-) But Cadvision is a very low traffic site
compared to rpmfind.net (I suppose living here I would know that.
They're a local ISP that just happens to be owned by PSINet so they have
a big, fat pipe out to the world).
And for the amusement of all, I did do a traceroute to Cadvision. 9
hops, none taking longer than 60 ms, and all but two reconizably within
the city of Calgary (the two in question didn't give me a name, just an
IP, so I can't be sure where they are). It takes 20 hops to get to
ciril.fr, with times up to 400 ms
Those poor Aussies. New York. Someone was out of their mind. :-P
Eaon
On 23 Mar 2001 17:10:44 -0600, Vincent Meyer wrote:
> um.. well, i get data rates of like 45-65 k/ sec on my cable modem
> from ftp.ciril.fr in France, and like 7k / sec from rpmfind in
> Boston. Boston is MUCH closer.
>
> V.
>
> Eaon wrote:
> > Besides, just take a wild guess, what is going to be closer, topology-wise,
> > to me, a mirror in the same city as me, or one on the other side of the
> > Atlantic (and continent, since Alberta is on the west side of North
> > America)? Can you give any example when it would be a shorter route to
> > cross the planet than to go down the block?
>
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