| === thumper-gym is now known as thumper | ||
| ibeardslee | interesting .. it seems that the 3 main ubuntu mirrors in NZ (plus the one at work) are giving me very similar results in pings and mtr | 01:55 |
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| ibeardslee | certainly not taking the overseas trip to get back to nz.archive.ubuntu.com | 01:56 |
| ibeardslee | will do a check again tonight though | 01:56 |
| G | ibeardslee: iirc nz.archive.ubuntu.com (citylink as I recall) offload requests from ISPs that don't peer locally to SFO, what is the 'this-node-???' file in the directory listing? | 02:01 |
| G | (if I remember rightly the rationale was it's cheaper that way to provide a free service, and chances are ISPs that didn't peer well would still be travelling overseas to get back, so what is the point | 02:03 |
| ibeardslee | well looking at my previous tests in Nov 2010, I was getting 150ms pings to nz.auc with 14 hops | 02:04 |
| ibeardslee | now it's 9 hops with a 23ms ping | 02:04 |
| ibeardslee | .. actually take two hops of each those, that includes my internal network ;) | 02:05 |
| G | ibeardslee: have you tried ucmirror? | 02:05 |
| G | http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz | 02:05 |
| ibeardslee | yes | 02:05 |
| G | it's actually a bit crazy, but even in Auckland I've found UC to be the most reliable mirror | 02:06 |
| ibeardslee | snap are introducing lost packet | 02:06 |
| G | (in terms of speed, stability and up to date-ness) | 02:06 |
| ibeardslee | but pings times are better | 02:07 |
| olly | it's handy they offload requests if you go overseas and don't update the mirror you use! | 02:13 |
| G | oh yeah, I'd certainly agree with that | 02:13 |
| olly | ping isn't always totally indicative of what performance you'll actually get | 02:13 |
| olly | especially as ping packets may be dropped in favour of other packets by some routers | 02:14 |
| ibeardslee | not totally, but a good indication that a connection is likely to be slow, have latency | 02:14 |
| ibeardslee | hmmm | 02:15 |
| olly | for a mirror, throughput tends to matter more than latency | 02:15 |
| olly | it's not a great sign if there's packet loss with ping though | 02:15 |
| === thumper is now known as thumper-afk | ||
| === thumper-afk is now known as thumper | ||
| olly | morning | 17:58 |
| * olly frees over 1GB by purging old kernels | 18:49 | |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:57 |
| snail | nice. they're testing the fire alarms today. It's now been running for 40 minutes and my earplugs are starting to itch | 20:04 |
| ajmitch | morning | 20:41 |
| chilts | morning | 21:41 |
| thumper | morning | 21:44 |
| snail | is there anyone in new zealand who does regular or semi regular linux training? | 21:48 |
| hads | morning | 22:15 |
| snail | the definition of stability: the package's news page still has their y2k compliance statement | 22:21 |
| G | snail: only ones I really know of are Auldhouse and iirc they mainly focus on the Red Hat Curriculum | 23:32 |
| G | (so I'd imagine not much help/doesn't really fit in) | 23:34 |
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