18 Nov
2009
18 Nov
'09
3:01 p.m.
Ave had a chance to travel widely and I notice that when I ping yahoo.com or google.com from say Egypt/SA/US the turnarounds times reported on average 56-60ms. In Kenya, prior to the undersea cable i was experiencing turn-around times of over 1500ms to google.com. With the coming of the undersea cable I saw five-fold improvements with recordings of around 300ms but somehow deteriorating to around 400ms-500ms. Ave tested on both Mobile internet and fixed lines but am yet to experience turnaround times of below 60ms to google.com/yahoo.com from Kenya. am truly confused why pinging from Kenyan territory seems to be so bad... Where's Aki to confirm - maybe I have a local (LAN/Base Station) problem or what? walu.