On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> My personal record for a mobile network is 180 seconds RTT. They *really*
> *really* want to deliver the packets, and if the radio environment go bad
> they'll still buffer 400 packets (or so).

I've seen 50 seconds on the big-bad-internet with no radio links. I assume
it was a link down and some box like my DSL modem didn't flush the queue
and/or didn't implement the corner of the RFC that says to bump the hop count
every second..

Heh. I've seen > 60 seconds, even on WiFi, in DC on Xfinity WiFi service.

I've seen > 20 seconds over the Internet (but with a satellite link in the way) to Peru.

Over the Acela wireless, I've seen > 90 seconds (their back haul is 3g or 4g, depending).

I routinely see not-quite 4 seconds on the download side of a DSL link.

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