On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:41:48AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > One of my other friends has AOL cable modem from Oceanic > and it seems to be absolutely terrible. It appears to > route all traffic through some mainland location before > hitting the Internet, so he has terrible 1000+ ms latency to > videl.ics.hawaii.edu and other Hawaii sites. Does Earthlink > cable from Oceanic have this same problem?
Try forwarding traceroutes to their backbone engineering group. Even if traffic is routing out of the Virginia datacenters, the latency should not be that high. I would expect about 150 ms for a decent route to the east coast. -Vince
