Re: [9fans] terminal + router + cable internet

["Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

We have booted a diskless octopus terminal (well, with our terminal
software in the terminal,
I admit)  while at greece, keeping the files at madrid. RTTs were
>150ms. A little bit
slower than at home (which is a little bit slower than a direct lan attach).

As far as our experience goes (which is not much), latency is the real problem.


On 9/13/07, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> i agree my experience isn't relevant to john's problem. his ping times
> are about 1/5 or less of what mine were. more significantly, the fact
> that his significant delay happens before authentication points
> towards something in the auth process (factotum+secstore).
>
> in general, though: networks have gotten faster, but not terribly much
> quicker. there's been no significant change in latency between
> machines i've been paying attention to in various parts of the US
> (mostly east coast) and western europe (mostly London) for the past 4
> years. the bandwidth (and bandwidth/$) have both improved
> significantly.
>
> (this is not true for asia, especially india, where i've seen very
> significant improvements)
>