[126645] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Latency between GCI Anchorage and VZB in NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed May 26 11:39:27 2010
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:38:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Brad Beck <Brad.Beck@meritain.com>
In-Reply-To: <330978F411B1E04FA5870873EB0863030EB28161E2@bufamhmail02.ad.meritain.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 26 May 2010, Brad Beck wrote:
> I've been working diligently to improve performance of interactive
> applications (Citrix, terminal) that are run by users in our office
> located in Anchorage, and are served by a managed Internet connection
> provided by GCI. Our applications reside in the Buffalo, NY area.
I don't know anything about your specific case... but with an 100% optimum
light-path you're looking at ~55 ms RTT between ANC-NYC (1ms RTT per
100km of fiber):
<http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=anc-nyc%0D%0A&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=km&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=>
Of course fiber very seldom goes direct path, so 124ms sounds plausable
and could most likely be improved by a little bit by choosing another
provider, but would that really substantially improve your interactivity
problem?
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
