🚀 go-pugleaf

Arthur Marsh (arthur@gateway.dircsa.org.au) wrote:

: 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.

Graeme will have been referring to something different .. the addition of
another 6 meg to the existing 12 meg between Sydney and the US. The MCI
upgrade from 45 meg to 155 meg on its backbone doesn't start until April.

Most of the packet loss resulting from link congestion as observed from here
appears to occur within MCI or (worse) Sprint. Some have been caused by
"interesting" peering arrangements in the US resulting in sub-optimal route
choices (trying to get from Sprint to ftp.cdrom.com a couple of weeks back,
for example) across routers approaching "melt-down" but I believe that these
are being or have been fixed .. only as good as the weakest link and all
that ..

	michael