Re: [SLUG] (slightly OT) iHug Satellite with High latency (used to be good)

[Matthew Dalton <matthew.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ramon buckland wrote:
> 
> 
> Up until 2 days ago I have been getting great downloads with okay
> latency.
> On average (and I checked every couple of days) I would be getting
> 512ms
> latency fairly consistently.. maybe stray up to about 550 or so. (and
> 30K-40K downloads )

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> My ping times (latency) have jumped from avg of 500ms to 1.2 to 4 and
> 5 and 10 secs (see below) and it fluxuates. My download speeds were
> around 40KB/s but now are closer to 12KB/s but do get higher.

Have you tried a traceroute? What about downloading files, or pinging
to, a machine on iHug's network (ie. logically closer to your machine
than ftp.icq.com)? Does the latency occur when you're downloading email,
or usenet?

Rather than saying "there's a latency, somewhere", try pinpointing where
it's coming from. Maybe it's not all from your satellite service after
all.

Lastly, have you tried speaking to iHug about the problem?


Matthew