CAN YOU TRAIN MY STUDENT`S, I WILL PAY YOU OK. LET ME KNOW Keith Vassallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've pinged the site, and my average rtt is 80ms. I'm with a Keyworld connection. What ISP are you using?
Keith On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 13:06 -0800, Graham Petley wrote: > This isn't directly connected with Linux but it is relevant to the quality > of our on-line experience. > I'm trying to get Google Earth working, and as we know this service isn't > supported on Linux. But my family members run Windows XP so I'm installing it > for them. On a support forum I found the advice that "Your performance will be > controlled by your own ISP's throughput and your latency to our servers. Ping > kh.google.com. <100msec, good. >200msec, not-so-good." A Swedish reader > replied > "Here in Sweden my average ping response is 22.6msec (!)" > I tested my Maltese response and got an average 265ms (Jan 23, 20:45). > Repeating the ping even gave me "Request timed out" messages! I got similar > slow responses from my web site vlsitechnology.org (hosted by Yahoo in > California). > > The www.nethealth.net.mt site gives average Google response times of 100ms > and Yahoo 200ms, and has done so for months now. Why is Malta so slow when > Sweden is so fast? I thought there was a government policy of making Malta an > internet hub, but it doesn't look competitive at all compared to competing > countries like Sweden. > > Am I wrong, or is there a way for me to improve my connection latency by a > factor of up 10?? > > - Graham Petley > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list -- Keith Vassallo Registered Linux User #290991 http://www.keithvassallo.net _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre.
