Re: _extreme_ packet loss!!!

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From: Arthur Marsh
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00

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Tony Li (tli@cisco.com) wrote:
: In article <4ita0m$m35@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au> aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au
: (George Sanderson) writes: 
:     
:     So, at least a third to about half the packets to/from outside .au are
:     lost, and the average response is significantly more than 300 ms.
:     
:     So where's most of the packet loss occuring ???
:     
: There are significant congestion problems currently at Fix-West.  Rumor has
: it that they will get fixed shortly.  It seems the FDDI ring there is a tad
: full and no more photons will fit....

Don't know about the seriousness of the problem, but Telstra Internet Services
have new performance measurement techniques and results at www.telstra.net, and
Mr Graeme Kennelly rang me yesterday, mentioning that the next Pacific link
upgrade was going in as we were speaking.

Regards,

Arthur.

-- 
Arthur Marsh, telephone +61-8-370-2365, fax +61-8-223-5082 
              arthur@dircsa.org.au
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From: arthur@gateway.dircsa.org.au (Arthur Marsh)
Subject: Re: _extreme_ packet loss!!!
Date: 1996/03/27
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