UOPing (again)
Daniel Coffey
I have seen from the Beta news page that there are now several servers
(including a west coast and east coast one). Where will all the
servers be to start with, and which one is targetted by UOPing?
From the UK, I get 320ms @ 0% loss in our morning and 450ms @ 30%
loss in the evenings.
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Daniel Coffey
Edinburgh, UK
cof...@cableinet.co.uk
Daniel Coffey
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:21:50 GMT, toma...@super.zippo.com wrote:
> There are 3 clusters of servers, one on the west coast, one on
>the east coast & one somewhere in the middle (maybe?). The names to
>ping are humility.owo.com, area1-e.owo.com, area1-w.owo.com.
>
> I have a 64K ISDN account with Pipex in the UK and I get zero
>packet loss & in the evening at peak UK time my pings are,
>
> humility 197ms
> area1-e 118ms
> area1-w 194ms
>
>So like Quake, I think the answer is to get a decent ISP & ISDN !
>
> Cheers, Adam.
Thanks for the super tip. I now get 250ms from area1-e when it's
quiet and 300ms with 20% loss whe it's busy (via 28.8).
Doug Bora
: There are 3 clusters of servers, one on the west coast, one on
: the east coast & one somewhere in the middle (maybe?). The names to
: ping are humility.owo.com, area1-e.owo.com, area1-w.owo.com.
I wonder if this is still true? I noticed that central was replaced with
a great lakes server this evening. I'm in the Chicago area, so logically
the midwest server would be the least amount of hops and thus the fastest,
but as of about a week or so ago, Central was the FARTHEST away in hops
from me, and gave the slowest pings by far. I'm hoping that central is
and will be the internal test server at Origin, and that there's a
seperate Great Lakes server with a much better ping time for me.
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Doug Bora
stig...@wwa.com
John Thacker
Doug Bora <stig...@wwa.com> wrote:
: : There are 3 clusters of servers, one on the west coast, one on
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: Doug Bora
: stig...@wwa.com
number of hops can have nothing to do with geographic closeness
if you're on a different backbone. I've run a traceroute to a
host in the same city (Durham, NC) and had the route go through
California.
John
Doug Bora
: number of hops can have nothing to do with geographic closeness
: if you're on a different backbone. I've run a traceroute to a
: host in the same city (Durham, NC) and had the route go through
: California.
True, but being in Chicago near one of the major hubs (what's it called,
and RBOC?) there was a good chance that it'd be faster. Seeing as Great
Lakes is up again finally, I tested it, and it far outperforms the pings I
was getting from the other 3 servers (central, atlantic, and pacific).
I'm seeing an average ping of somewhere around 130-140ms over a 28.8
connection. Not bad at all.
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Doug Bora
stig...@wwa.com