RE: Is it true ? Dynamic nature of Internet - (Internet delay

From: Bradley Freeman <bradley_at_communitystring.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:38:58 -0000

> > Is there any way to make this right by getting the constant delay
> > (Ex:200ms
> > - 250ms) ? Or is this the nature of the internet? (Dynamic
> > characteristics
> > of the internet). (not by hard coding the stuff like having one
> address

Also if you are looking at the range of 200ms to 250ms for replies to
popular sites that's crazy high, below is what you can expect if you have
setup private peerings with them. Something has to go seriously wrong for
the RTT to go much higher as we control as much of the path of the path as
we possibly can.

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=10 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=9 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=9 ms

----8.8.8.8 PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max/med = 9/9/10/9

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