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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Is there a Internet distance measure?
- In-Reply-To: fff@microplex.com's message of Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:08:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Sep7170409@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <dank.715818516@blacks> <1992Sep7.190806.28164@microplex.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:04:12 GMT
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- Fred> == Fred Fierling <fff@microplex.com>
-
- Fred> If you can connect to a host on the other side of the country
- Fred> through a T1 link, that would be better than a host across the
- Fred> street through a 9600 bps line.
-
- I have personally seen a pathological example of this. Two sites,
- literally two blocks apart, that (at the time) had packets between them
- route through Maryland, Michigan, and New Jersey to get back to
- Cambridge, Massachusetts. It really was closer to get to machines in
- Virginia than it was to get to the machine down the street.
-
- Now the packets just have to cross the Charles River twice :)
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