Life in the land of broadband

Posted on July 16th, 2005 by Sacha Chua

One of the things I really like about being in one of Those Countries is the high-speed access to Those Sites. For example, here's how long it takes me to ping a Debian mirror here:

64 bytes from debian-mirror.cs.umn.edu (128.101.80.133): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=28.7 ms

Way, way, fun.

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