Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
The web site for CentOS is not responding. I can ping it OK, but the web site is not responding to http requests from my browser. If the webmaster should happen to read this...
I know it is working for everyone else. Below is the traceroute. The very slow connection is due to us going over satellite (or via submarine cable?), from Colombia into Miami.
its not satellite, or there'd be a hop in the middle that added about 500mS to all further points. speed of light up to geostationary orbit (about 22800 miles, +/- based on the lat/long of the earth stations, and the longitude of the satellite)) and back twice, kinda hard to beat that, and the main reason satellite internet isn't very popular.
*per google, (22800 miles * 4) / c = 489.58 milliseconds*
(* 4 because your packets woudl go up to orbit and back down, then the response has to go up and back again.)