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In article <4869p8$kp@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au> carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au (Carl Brewer) writes:
>From: carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au (Carl Brewer)
>Subject: Problems with WA <-> Melbourne AARNet link
>Date: 13 Nov 1995 10:16:08 +0800


>I have to point out that this is purely personal opinion and speculation,
>nothing I am writing is in any way policy or official opinion of anyone
>or anything even remotly connected to the University of Western Australia.

>We are still experiencing ~40% packet losses across the Nullaboor.

>Here are some stats from a ping -s I ran this morning.  I understand that
>the link is running typically at ~30% load, but this is hearsay, I haven't
>checked the numbers.

>----1.183.130.139.in-addr.arpa PING Statistics----
>142 packets transmitted, 83 packets received, 41% packet loss
>round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 85/185/490

>This is a ping -s national.gw.au from oversteer.  Our network
>is running at an average of 2% load, and the campus backbone 
>I imagine is about the same, but I haven't checked it.  We are two routers
>from the link.  The proof :

>traceroute to national.gw.au (139.130.184.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1  hacienda.library.uwa.edu.au (130.95.106.1)  3 ms  2 ms  2 ms
> 2  wa.gw.au (130.95.128.10)  3 ms  3 ms  3 ms
> 3  national.gw.au (139.130.85.1)  153 ms * *

>As I understand it,  the problem is not with AARNet per se, but is a
>problem with the Telstra (not Telstra Internet, Telstra proper) FastPac II
>2MB/s link.  The link is not saturated, there is a problem with it.

I'm having the same problem here.  Apparently the WA link and the 
Connect.com.au link share the same Fastpac Interface at the Melbourne end and 
it seems the interface cannot handle the load. (from what I understand anyway).

Apparently a new Megalink has been on order for over two months, but Telstra
says it wont be ready until the end of November :(

Guess we all sit on our hands and wait...

Rgds,
Paul.



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