I've always found the connection between me (South Australia) and my Linode in Hurricane Electric to be very good - very little latency.

The news gets better though:

"Telstras new submarine cable lands in Sydney"
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=22562

Should be 'lit' by the end of the year.

smiffy:

What, if I may ask, is your latency from the land of Oz?

--deckert

Don't know what to give you exactly, here are some quick diags; I've obfustictated my IP address as you have no idea who might end up reading this...

Ping!

PING andreas (64.71.foo.bar) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=229 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=228 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=230 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=229 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=229 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=230 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=228 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=228 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=229 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=229 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=230 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=228 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 time=229 ms
64 bytes from andreas (64.71.foo.bar): icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=229 ms

--- andreas ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 received, 0% packet loss, time 12998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 228.575/229.513/230.779/0.786 ms

My Tiny Rodent (mtr )

HOST: brutus                      Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. mercurio                      0.0%    20    0.6   0.5   0.5   0.7   0.1
  2. lns10.adl2.internode.on.net   0.0%    20   14.4  21.6  13.5 101.6  22.2
  3. vl14.cor3.adl2.internode.on.  0.0%    20   64.6  28.6  14.0 114.2  28.8
  4. gi0-3.bdr1.adl6.internode.on  0.0%    20  247.0 218.4 188.9 338.8  49.4
  5. pos4-0.bdr1.syd7.internode.o  0.0%    20  307.4 261.4 228.8 384.4  51.6
  6. pos2-3.bdr1.sjc2.internode.o  0.0%    20  257.0 201.4 191.3 274.1  23.1
  7. sjo-ix.he.net                 0.0%    20  199.3 200.7 191.0 295.2  24.0
  8. 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.f  5.0%    20  194.4 200.7 192.5 283.0  20.3
  9. andreas                      10.0%    20  252.4 239.1 228.4 320.9  25.5

Think I'm fairly safe posting my ISP's stuff. Mercurio is my local ADSL router, everything else is remote.

Hope this helps; ssh takes 2-3 seconds to connect, not huge delays once connected unless my local ADSL connection is doing anything else heavy. Let's put it this way, I've had dumb terminals run slower in the same building as the server than I get throwing packets half way round the world. Performance to my Linode at The Planet (Dallas) is somewhat slower, but then I've got a slower Linode there, too. Shout if you need anything else.

Cheers

M

Thanks, the 230ms latency figure is what I was after. Comparatively, my latency is within norms then (at 330ms from South Africa to the US, via London).

--deckert