Thread: 50M Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS)
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Old 20-09-2012, 18:17   #2149
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Re: Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS)
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
So why would a ping from only 80.249.99.164 which is only 3 jumps outside of VM's network be effected by a download of iOS6? Is there any history for a software release to effect ping times across a couple of countries?

Surely (yes I am calling you Shirley ) the server bottlenecks would have stopped the backbones getting saturated unless of course the requests themselves are the cause? Perhaps you can explain more..please..
I didn't say anything about iOS6, I only said the issue was more widespread than "very close". As for jumps - the most critical jumps don't show up on traceroutes. And lest not forget, Moscow and New York are "only" 3 jumps outside of VM's network as well.

While I little care about iOS6 or its effects on the internet, I think you've got server bottlenecks and backbones the wrong way round. Servers have far more capacity than the switches they are connected to, and those switches have far more capacity than the routers or backbones they are in turn connected to.

For example one datacentre may have 1000 servers with 1-4Gbps capacity each, hooked up to 64 10Gbps switches hooked up to 40Gbps of internet.
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