[32111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Election 2000 - Network performance status quo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Nov 9 15:33:56 2000
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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 15:30:33 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Large scale measurements of the Internet showed no measurable difference
> in overall packet loss or reachability during the 2000 US national
> elections. Aggregate traffic measurements at NAPs and some providers'
> MRTG graphs didn't show much difference from last Tuesday's.
>
> Unscientific measurements of specific web sites (i.e. news and political
> sites) did show increased latency and timeouts, which tends to indicate
> the bottleneck was at the web site. CNN and MSNBC went to a stripped down
> front page; which helped their performance. ABCnews and CBSnews appeared
> to keep their full frontpage, and were very sluggish. Yahoo News, with
> the most stripped down, almost all text news page, was speedy all night
> long.
>
> Although some people throwup their hands, and say you can't control the
> Internet; it does seem like many of the issues are at the point under
> the control of the individual organization.
>
> Smaller websites such as political candidate sites did have problems
> loading, but they are probably going away tomorrow anyway.
Hello Sean;
Apparently the load is even higher now :
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001108/19/-eln-on-the-net
Any signs of it ?
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609
e-mail : tme@on-the-i.com http://www.on-the-i.com
