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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 22:56:02 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- Message-ID: <1ho0m2INN1a8@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Dec24.020623.5763@eff.org> <1hb7v9INNm74@agate.berkeley.edu> <8260@news.duke.edu>
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- In article <8260@news.duke.edu> jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead) writes:
- >In article <1hb7v9INNm74@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu
- > (Steve Pope) writes:
-
- >>(Other disadvantages I am told are a low limit on disk filespace,
- >>and a slow connection out to the Internet, but those topics
- >>are not germane to this newsgroup.)
- >
- >These perceptions are not true. [..]
-
- >And the Internet connection really is not slow. For connecting from the
- >Well in San Francisco to my system here in North Carolina, I got figures
- >that are basically the same as vice versa:
- >
- > well% /usr/etc/ping neuro.duke.edu 10
- > PING neuro.duke.edu: 56 data bytes 10 packets
- > ...
- > 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
- > round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 130/143/190
- >
- >and when I did the same thing from my machine here to the Well, I got
- >
- > neuro> ping -s well.sf.ca.us 56 10
- > PING well.sf.ca.us: 56 data bytes
- > ...
- > 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
- > round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 133/157/227
-
- John, you're right, after a quick check I find WELL does not seem to
- have a particularly slow internet connection. At least based on the
- following which may be of interest.
-
-
- From zabriskie.berkeley.edu:
-
- /usr/etc/ping -s well.sf.ca.us 56 10
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 49/63/98
-
- /usr/etc/ping -s netcom.com 56 10
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 18/28/57
-
- /usr/etc/ping -s rahul.net 56 10
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 51/55/61
-
- /usr/etc/ping -s access.digex.com 56 10
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 3630/5157/6531
-
- (!) Not a statistically significant sample of course. And, again,
- off topic for this newsgroup in any case....
-
- Steve
-