[nzlug] International traffic really slow

[Martin Bähr]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:24:35PM +1300, Glen Ogilvie wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that International traffic, during peak times
> (5pm - 1 am), has got much slower than it was about 6 months ago.

the reason for this is here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070913-longest-flight.html

although these carriers go nonstop from alaska to new zealand (that's a
single hop), on their way back they are routed through an extra hop in
korea, and that hop recently had its bandwith reduced.

see also http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

greetings, martin.
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