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- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Is there a Internet distance measure?
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:57:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bu8D43.DB8@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <dank.715818516@blacks> <1992Sep7.190806.28164@microplex.com> <CKD.92Sep7170409@loiosh.eff.org>
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- In article <CKD.92Sep7170409@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- :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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- My log in to my mail machine goes from britain to the usa to the netherlands.
- The packets are rather damp when they arrive and take about as long to get
- there as by UPS. :-(
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