Via Rail Internet

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:19:04 -0400

I’m currently on a VIA train heading home. Since Angelo bought the wifi service for the day and then just went to sleep, he let me use it. It’s almost useable (AJAX tends barf on it). It’s uplink is via satellite.

     hylarides:~ hylaride$ ping www.google.ca
     PING www.l.google.com (64.233.161.104): 56 data bytes
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=240 time=1031.102 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=1131.279 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=4449.298 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=6 ttl=240 time=1692.930 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=4730.675 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=4203.077 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=4004.036 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=8 ttl=240 time=1236.735 ms
     64 bytes from 64.233.161.104: icmp_seq=10 ttl=240 time=1667.189 ms
     ^C
     --- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
     15 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 40% packet loss
     round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1031.102/2682.925/4730.675/1513.236 ms

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