Subj : Free tunnels, for how long?
To   : Björn Felten
From : Andre Grueneberg
Date : Wed Nov 02 2011 18:28:34

Hi Björn

Björn Felten schrieb:

 BF>    Normally, yes, but not always. Fibres are often routed in
 BF> mysterious ways. 

It's not only the fibres, but the IPv4 route ...

 BF> It would be interesting to see what latency you
 BF> get. Here's what the German site kloth.net gives on a ping to my
 BF> PoP vs. what you get to your PoP: 

PING 82.96.56.14 (82.96.56.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 31.156/31.560/31.909/0.402 ms

PING 91.184.37.98 (91.184.37.98) 56(84) bytes of data.
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.721/15.287/15.663/0.382 ms

 BF> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.500/27.648/27.897/0.226 ms
 BF>    mdev is of course the most interesting data here...

Why would that be? It's just the deviation of the measurements from the average. Avg +- mdev is the relevant metric (when it comes to statistics).

Anyway ... I prefer to have it all native. :)

CU Andre               E-Mail: andre@grueneberg.de 
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