Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 7/20/24 14:08, Matt Corallo wrote:

> Geosync is probably the highest unloaded latency, but add in a little 
> bufferbloat and you can easily get way more latency...I've definitely 
> seen a minute+ pings on a plane, which is almost all queuing. I assume 
> airplanes are not the only place with such horrendous queuing, even if 
> most networks have done a good job at reducing that nonsense over the 
> last decade.

I think if you eliminate packet loss and intermittency as a source of 
increased latency, geostationary satellite is probably as bad as it gets 
from a transport medium that is stable but just physically limited. 
600ms is just about what you would see here.

I have seen subsea deliver as high as 450ms, but this purely a function 
of distance traveled, e.g., Cape Town to Auckland via Hong Kong, for 
example.

Mark.