On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 18:23, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thanks, Roger. I so did, and got an interesting result. You can see > that as I work my way out, the ping time gets slowly longer, but on > the last one, it jumps from ~13 ms to ~88 ms. Does that seem unusual, > or is because it's going across a large way? I did ping a .co.il (my > country's domain extension) address, but that does not necessarily > mean that the site is hosted here. Under the best conditions you can't do better than about one ms per 185 miles. Long story here: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx