What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Try the 1400 millisecond ping time to my shell server. Yes, that’s fourteen hundred milliseconds, or 1.4 seconds. This is over my cable Internet connection (Comcast) to a machine less than a mile away that has a Gigabit link to the Internet and Internet2. Normally the round-trip time is less than 10ms. I can’t remember ever seeing ping times this bad, even on dialup. Trying to use vim over ssh is a joke, since the result of a keypress doesn’t show up until more than a second later.
I don’t know what is causing this ridiculous slowdown. Most likely one of my roommates is downloading m4d w4r3z with BitTorrent, or maybe Comcast is just screwing around.