[LINK] Latency across Australia & to Europe....

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Hi Martin,

It is Virgin Broadband over the Optus 3G Network. The light
on the dongle was dark blue, indicating good 3G reception,
at the Perth location (this is not the experience in parts
of inner city Canberra).

If cost is not an issue - I understand, Telstra is the way
to go on 3G Broadband in Australia on both coverage and
performance.

However, as Richard pointed out the routing plays a part and
it seems the website on a Telstra link performed less well.

If you are still in Europe, it would be interesting to know
what the hops are to uwa.edu.au or ecu.edu.au (assuming
these are hosted in Perth) vs syd.edu.au or uts.edu.au 
(assuming these are hosted in Sydney) - or doesn't it matter 
because of AARNET?

Marghanita

Martin Barry wrote:
> $quoted_author = "Marghanita da Cruz" ;
>> Fascinating...this is what traceroute told me:
>>
>> To ramin.com.au there were 9 hops from my Kogan from both 
>> Perth (Friday morning) and Sydney (Saturday afternoon).
>>
>> Total 3534.39ms (Syd)		4738.39ms (Perth)
> 
> This is over 3G? Those are some crazy round trip times, more akin to a
> satellite connection or a couple of laps of the globe.
> 
> 
>> To another site, which I would guess would be hosted in 
>> Sydney, and whose performance seemed particularly poor, 
>>
>> Total 2444.28ms (Syd)		2520.35ms (Perth)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Which 3G provider is this? Just so I know who to avoid...
> 
> 
>> And most amazing of all to a European Site:
>> 21 hops 16263.72ms (from Syd)	
>> 11 hops 13582.83ms (from Perth)
> 
> EU should be 200-300ms depending on the path taken but not taking into
> account any 3G / last mile latency.
> 
> cheers
> Marty
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Marghanita da Cruz
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