[164508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One of our own in the Guardian.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Sun Jul 14 05:13:20 2013
In-Reply-To: <85364B78-6892-4F47-BCA9-454932142609@virtualized.org>
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:12:26 -0400
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution
of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised
about bad net access? I would question the wisdom of planning a tech
conference there, but not the facility itself.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:16 AM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Mark Seiden <mis@seiden.com> wrote:
>> and here i am in the icann-selected hotel for the icann conference, and they gave us a total of 500MB of metered usage.
>
> Trust me, the 500MB limit (per day, and resettable if you go down to the front desk and request more) is the least of your worries:
>
> % ping trantor.virtualized.org
> ....
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 179
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 180
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 181
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=104 ttl=40 time=78594.936 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=119037.553 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103268.363 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103690.981 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120196.719 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120333.246 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=85 ttl=40 time=99395.502 ms
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=105 ttl=40 time=79406.728 ms
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 186
> 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=93 ttl=40 time=94822.040 ms
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 188
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 189
> ...
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
>