TCP's 3 way handshake from South Africa really hurts, as does that first DNS exchange. root@OpenWrt:/tmp# httping www.lwn.net (located in colorado) PING www.lwn.net:80 (www.lwn.net): connected to www.lwn.net:80, seq=0 time=1271.18 ms connected to www.lwn.net:80, seq=1 time=632.17 ms connected to www.lwn.net:80, seq=2 time=634.17 ms connected to www.lwn.net:80, seq=3 time=632.84 ms root@OpenWrt:/tmp# httping www.google.com PING www.google.com:80 (www.google.com): connected to www.google.com:80, seq=0 time=612.98 ms connected to www.google.com:80, seq=1 time=355.97 ms connected to www.google.com:80, seq=2 time=357.21 ms connected to www.google.com:80, seq=3 time=354.95 ms Getting httpping's beta "persistent connections" test out of beta and on the router would be interesting... root@OpenWrt:/tmp# traceroute $_ traceroute to 74.125.230.112 (74.125.230.112), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 0.941 ms 0.693 ms 0.747 ms 2 wfor-ip-esr-2.ipnet.wa.co.za (41.185.87.1) 7.765 ms 7.951 ms 8.910 ms 3 vl105.cr.gw.cpt.za.wa.co.za (196.220.59.250) 9.935 ms 9.434 ms 9.253 ms 4 41.185.0.254 (41.185.0.254) 10.164 ms 9.645 ms 9.863 ms 5 vl140.er.cinx.cpt.za.wa.co.za (41.185.1.5) 10.233 ms 21.074 ms 10.247 ms 6 198.32.214.41 (198.32.214.41) 10.883 ms 10.577 ms 12.009 ms 7 209.85.248.215 (209.85.248.215) 163.260 ms 163.623 ms 163.500 ms 8 209.85.252.44 (209.85.252.44) 162.617 ms 171.932 ms 233.256 ms 9 209.85.251.56 (209.85.251.56) 162.503 ms 162.409 ms 161.984 ms 10 74.125.230.112 (74.125.230.112) 162.330 ms 162.579 ms 162.436 ms root@OpenWrt:/tmp# traceroute www.lwn.net traceroute to www.lwn.net (72.51.34.34), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 1.009 ms 0.726 ms 0.601 ms 2 wfor-ip-esr-2.ipnet.wa.co.za (41.185.87.1) 8.327 ms 7.849 ms 7.424 ms 3 vl108.cr.gw.cpt.za.wa.co.za (196.220.59.238) 10.811 ms 9.516 ms 9.754 ms 4 41.185.0.254 (41.185.0.254) 10.552 ms 9.909 ms 10.207 ms 5 41.66.150.177 (41.66.150.177) 10.029 ms 10.041 ms 11.008 ms 6 LD-GS-MSC-M-to-CT-RO-MSC-M-SAT3-core-p2p.africainx.net (41.66.132.49) 162.118 ms 162.003 ms 162.205 ms 7 vl467.mpd01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (149.6.146.157) 162.421 ms 162.202 ms 163.133 ms 8 te3-1.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.26) 162.786 ms te2-1.3493.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.18) 162.519 ms te3-1.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.26) 161.832 ms 9 tiscali.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.15.50) 162.068 ms 162.140 ms 199.208 ms 10 xe-9-2-0.lax20.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.184.169) 312.679 ms xe-10-2-0.lax20.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.182.46) 313.521 ms xe-7-2-0.lax20.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.187.93) 318.560 ms 11 peer1-gw.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.70.206) 313.451 ms 311.699 ms 313.173 ms 12 1ge-gi2-2.lax-600w-sbdis-1.ne.peer1.net (216.187.88.126) 312.972 ms 312.811 ms 312.597 ms 13 sb.lwn.net (72.51.34.34) 313.174 ms 313.444 ms 313.780 ms -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://the-edge.blogspot.com