[nzlug] International traffic really slow

[Nevyn]

On 10/17/07, Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 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.

9 days to deliver a packet? Having to wait another 6 months or so to
send a packet back?

Much as we like to complain about our internet speeds, I think wires
still treat us a little better than that.

Could the movie "Birds" be about a failed attempt of rfc1149?